Former Love Island South Africa winner Thimna Shooto has addressed swirling rumours of a reunion with ex-boyfriend Libho Geza, after a comfy TikTok clip despatched followers right into a frenzy.
Former Love Island South Africa season one winners Thimna Shooto and Libho Geza have discovered themselves again within the headlines this week, after a TikTok video reignited hypothesis that the once-golden couple could be rekindling their romance.
The pair, who gained the present’s inaugural season collectively in 2021 earlier than courting publicly for round a 12 months, known as it quits in early 2022. Greater than 4 years on, nonetheless, a brief clip has been sufficient to get followers speaking a few potential “Limna” reunion. This additionally comes as different GenZ influencers seem to have reunited with their fashionable exes.
Rumours, rumours, rumours
The hypothesis flared up in early July, after Libho posted a part of a TikTok fit-check video that includes himself, his Buff & Shine Podcast co-host Bheki Ndamase and Thimna, who appeared as a shock visitor. The pair laughed within the video after she cracked a joke, showing so relaxed with each other that Ndamase seemed visibly out of the loop. He even requested if it was a “Love Island joke”.
Followers rapidly latched onto the interplay as proof of a romantic reunion, with many flooding remark sections celebrating the pair’s obvious chemistry.
Thimna units the report straight
Thimna moved rapidly to close the rumours down, posting her personal response on TikTok utilizing the favored “put a finger down” format. Within the video, she walked followers by what she says actually occurred.
She defined that she bumped into Ndamase, Libho’s co-host and now shut buddy, whereas out at an occasion.
Based on Thimna, Ndamase was initially reluctant to interact along with her, given his friendship along with her ex, however the two cleared the air and ended up spending the night collectively.
“You find yourself sitting collectively talking the entire evening, woman chat the entire time, you guys are having a good time making one another snort,” she stated.
Thimna stated Libho arrived later within the night, and that she made a deliberate option to hold issues civil. “You resolve you’re not that deep, I’m gonna be pleasant, I’m gonna be cordial, cool,” she recalled.
It was in the direction of the top of the evening, she stated, that somebody advised filming an “outfit test” video, and he or she provided to movie it on her personal telephone. “I get instructed, no, we truly need you within the video, so that you’re like, okay, you oblige – what’s the worst that would occur,” Thimna defined, saying she agreed on the understanding that the clip would merely be a light-hearted second between the group.
As an alternative, she says the footage that finally surfaced two weeks later centered solely on her interplay with Libho, with the outfit phase reportedly omitted solely.
“You get up two weeks later and the video has been edited and posted out of context,” she stated.
‘That is what being good will get me’
Thimna captioned the video: “That is what being good will get me,” and described the entire scenario as “so bizarre”. Many followers have interpreted these feedback as a suggestion that Libho used the footage for clout or consideration.
She was agency in rejecting any suggestion that the 2 are getting again collectively.
Her response is per earlier feedback she’s made since their 2022 break up, the place she has maintained that the pair aren’t romantically appropriate, even when they’ve remained cordial at instances.
