Bachelor in Paradise couple Leslie Fhima and Gary Levingston have reunited after their time in Costa Rica together.
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Gary also posted a photo of the couple hugging in the video.
Alongside one image of Leslie getting some sun on the water, Gary wrote, "Making new memories in a beautiful place, Lake Tahoe for a Golden Bachelorette and a Golden Bachelor."
Leslie and Gary, however, did not confirm if their current relationship is platonic or romantic, and the video was later deleted.
Earlier this month, Leslie had suggested the pair are just friends.
"We talk all the time. We were at the premiere together watching the show in L.A.," Leslie shared, referencing Bachelor in Paradise's Season 10 debut, during the August 5 episode of the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast.
"Gary is now, I can honestly say, one of my best friends. He is calm if I have a problem. He kind of talks me off the ledge a little bit."
Leslie added in her conversation with the podcast's co-hosts Serena Pitt and Joe Amabile, "We are always there for each other and we always have each other's back."
Leslie said she didn't know how to define her dynamic with Gary because they hadn't spent much time together.
"We live in two separate cities -- I don't know what it could be," Leslie noted at the time.
"All I know is that for me, a big thing with any relationship, a romantic one for sure, is I want to be friends first. Because I want to be with my best friend growing older."
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELOR' FRANCHISE COUPLES NOWLeslie went on to admit that even though she was unsure about where her relationship with Gary stood, they both care about each other immensely.
"That is a huge thing for me, and I don't know what it's going to be," Leslie said.
"But I know that we have special places in our hearts for each other and that's all I can say right now."
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On Bachelor in Paradise's tenth season, Leslie and Gary immediately hit it off and enjoyed a fun salsa-dancing date.
However, they were sent home during the August 4 episode of Bachelor in Paradise after host Jesse Palmer introduced a new twist involving a potential $500,000 cash prize.
Bailey Taylor Brown -- who won the first Paradise competition called "High/Low" -- was able to decide Leslie and Gary's fate on the show after Gary had made a big mistake during the competition.
Gary had bet half of his chips on a question about Leslie, knowing he and Leslie couldn't win and would've been safe had he bet just a single chip.
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When Leslie and Gary got eliminated, they walked out of Paradise hand in hand.
Gary said in his final words that he planned to "continue to move forward" with Leslie in the real world "just in a different way."
Leslie, for her part, had said in her final words on Bachelor in Paradise, "Even though I'm sad and I wish we could have stayed, I think that we showed the young people that when you get older, you don't have to stop having fun or tame it down, obviously."
Prior to their Paradise stint, Gary had competed for Joan Vassos' heart on The Golden Bachelorette in 2024.
And Leslie had finished as the runner-up on Gerry Turner's season of The Golden Bachelor in 2023.
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Leslie admitted to going through "dark days" following The Golden Bachelor because Gerry had blindsided and devastated her during the show's finale in Costa Rica, where Bachelor in Paradise also coincidentally filmed.
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