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‘RACE’ LOSERS STILL A COUPLE

THE bickering couple “Amazing Race 12” fans love to hate are still dating – and may even get married.

Jennifer Parker and Nathan Hagstrom appeared to be on the verge of breaking up after they were eliminated from the show on Sunday’s episode, but said this week in an interview that their relationship is in great shape.

“Things are really good between Nate and I now,” Parker told the Web site IGN.com. “We’re still together. When we got back from the race, in the end of [Sunday’s] episode, we really didn’t know what was going to happen.

“There were times when we were like ‘I’ll never be with you ever again.’ We agreed on that. But once we cooled our heads, we really have a deep bond and a deep connection, I think, that is going to hold us together for life. And so, although we looked like crazy people with our heads cut off, it really brought us so much closer.”

Hagstrom agrees.

“It was intense therapy for Jen and I. It was a 30-day therapy period, where we learned the likes and dislikes about each other,” he says.

As this season’s edition of the ’round-the-world reality race has unfolded, the couple has become famous for fighting with each other – and other contestants – in every episode.

Their final, on-air fight erupted – on Parker’s birthday, no less – in Taipei, shortly before they were eliminated, when they couldn’t agree on a means of transportation.