Australian Olympic swimmer Kaylee McKeown knows a thing or two about making a splash, and she’s not going to let her boyfriend get away with making a few of his own.
McKeown, 24, went viral on Tuesday, May 26 for posting a video of her boyfriend cleaning his urine stains off the bathroom floor.
“Making him clean his pee stains,” she wrote over the video, which showed her boyfriend, former pro soccer player Declan Watson, hosing down the floor in front of the toilet. The extent of Watson’s alleged damage remains unclear, but judging by how much water he was using, he doesn’t seem to have the aim of an Olympic marksman.
McKeown, for her part, is a five-time Olympic gold medalist spanning the 2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris Games. Known as arguably the greatest backstroker ever, she holds several backstroke world records.
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She and Watson went public with their relationship in August 2025 with both posting photos together from the famed Uluru rock in Australia’s Northern Territory.
“If it’s not on your bucket list, you should certainly add it @exploreuluru #justwow,” McKeown captioned the carousel of pics, which led with one of the couple posing with their arms around each other.
It’s not known when the two started dating, but their relationship comes after McKeown split with longtime boyfriend and fellow Australian swimmer Brendon Smith. She and Smith, 25, began dating in 2021 and appeared to still be together through the Paris Olympics, which Smith also competed in.
Though McKeown has already announced that the upcoming 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow will be her last, she still intends to compete at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. In a March interview with Australia’s Channel 7, she said she is already preparing for her third Summer Games.
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“I think I’ll be nervous and anxious walking into an atmosphere where two of my greatest rivals, world record holder [Regan] Smith and Katharine Berkoff, are both Americans,” she said.
Regan Smith, 24, currently holds the world record for the 100m backstroke — something McKeown intends to change.
“I still want to get that world record back in the 100m,” she said.
McKeown also opened up about battling shoulder issues, including a torn labrum, in the leadup to the last Olympics, where she still managed to win five medals, including the gold in the 100 and 200m backstroke.
“We are just managing my way [towards the Olympic trials in June] but the older I get the more injuries that keep coming up,” she explained. “I’m just trying to plan my way up to LA.”
