Francesca Farago and Harry Jowsey can finally revel in a happy ending. The infamous Too Hot To Handle couple announced today that they are still officially dating nearly a year after filming on the Netflix reality show ended. Viewers were left wondering about Francesca and Harry’s post-show fate. But with one couple-y Instagram post and a slew of eyebrow-raising interviews, there’s no denying these two are A Thing.
Yesterday, Jowsey wrote on Instagram, “Who’s ready for the big reveal tomorrow? What do you think I’m going to post ?? #TooHotToHandle,” teasing his relationship status. But it was Farago who went IG official with their romance first. She shared a close-up photo of the pair laughing with the caption, “always been you.. @harryjowsey♥️.”
Jowsey took to his Instagram Boyfriend duties immediately, commenting, ” Wow ❤️” and “Love you ❤️.” The newly-official couple celebrated their news with (what else) a round of interviews. They gave updates on their respective quarantines, revealed their matching tattoos, and even talked marriage and babies. Below, everything Farago and Jowsey have said about their relationship so far.
The couple isn’t quarantining together.
Jowsey and Farago are enduring a period that’s reminiscent of the way they met. “I think it’s kind of lucky that we aren’t quarantined together because I feel like you’d have a child by the end of this,” he candidly told Glamour about their current time apart. But they’ve been keeping the spark alive by FaceTiming “probably 10 times a day.”
The couple said that while it’s been hard to have Jowsey located in Los Angeles and Farago in Vancouver, they’ll hit the ground running post-pandemic. “But once the quarantine is over, we are going to move in together and it’s going to be amazing and magical,” Farago told Entertainment Tonight. “We are going to get married and have kids!”
Jowsey also seems to be on board, telling ET, “After quarantine, it’s probably going to be a few months [until I see her]. At that point, I’ll probably be completely driven up the wall. So when I see her, I’ll be wanting to put babies in her, and I’ll be wanting to marry her.”
Jowsey was originally planning to use their Too Hot To Handle winnings on a proposal.
In an 11th hour twist on the show, Jowsey, Farago, and the other contestants all walked away winners with $7,500 each. (A paltry sum compared to Jowsey’s winnings from the other dating show Jowsey’s won.) According to Jowsey, he was planning on using his prize money for a romantic proposal in Paris. He confirmed his plans to Entertainment Tonight. “I was going to surprise her and propose. I accidentally told her that was my plan from Day 1,” he explained. “I legitimately am so much happier when I’m around her and having her in my life. So, let’s go, sign me up!”
The pair also told Glamour they’ve “got a shared folder of wedding rings” and that Farago would like to use her share of the money for either a couple’s trip or a house and “10 dogs” with Jowsey.
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They’ve move past their drama from the show.
During their time on the hands-off retreat, Farago and Jowsey got quite the reputation for theatrics. They racked up quite the tab with kissing, a $6,000 blow job, and secret hookup. Jowsey even tried to convince other contestants that Farago had initiated their first kiss (with a $3,000 price tag) when footage clearly showed that he did.
But to hear the couple tell it, they’ve moved beyond the drama. In his sit-down with Glamour, Jowsey admitted he’s “a little bit of a villain” and that some of his actions on the show were “massively immature.” But he explained, “From my experience, every time me and Francesca broke the rules, we came out of it so much stronger.” Farago also held that stance during an Esquire interview. “I don’t regret anything because every decision I made led to the end result, which for me was the best possible, being in the relationship that I was when I left the show and the relationship that I’m still in,” she told the outlet.
They did have a brief breakup after the show stopped filming.
Even though they’ve seemingly made peace with their on-air decisions, they did split in the year between filming and the show dropping on Netflix. “After the show, everything was like a roller coaster, and we actually broke up for a few months,” Jowsey told ET. “We took a break, and then a few months ago, I got drunk in L.A. and texted her that I wanted to FaceTime her dog. I was like, ‘Hey, I don’t want to talk to you, can I just talk to your puppy?’ So at that point we just started talking.”
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He continued, “Long story short, I flew her down, fell in love again and now we want to get married. Right now, we just cherish each other that much more. We dated a few people in between, both of us, and I even said to the last girl I dated, I was like, ‘Hey, look, I’m still madly in love with my ex, and I’m so sorry but we can’t do this.’ And here we are, better than ever!”
The couple even got matching tattoos.
Further proof this pair is in it for the long haul? They went ahead and got matching ink when Jowsey visited Farago in Ottawa. “We had a lot of negativity around our relationship,” he told Entertainment Tonight. “On the show, every time I was with her I was like, ‘Look, let’s stay positive and keep that mindset, because that’s what’s going to get us through.’ So, it’s just a nice little reminder to stay positive. And stay with Francesca!”
As for why the couple chose lightning bolts on their index fingers? The idea came from a painting Farago drew during the Yoni Puja workshop with relationship expert Shan. “There was a challenge where I had to draw him a painting. It was supposed to be my vagina, but it was like an interpretation of what I saw,” she remembered. “I put little lightning bolts all over it, so it just kind of represented our experience as a whole together.”
They’re really in love, OK?
If you needed any further convincing that this Too Hot To Handle couple is committed, Farago told Entertainment Tonight she thinks the pair is “going to be connected for life.”
“Right when I met him, I’m like, ‘That’s it, you are all I need,'” she added of the unconventional start to their love story. “I think everything that happened [on the show] pushed us to get closer in the end. There were a lot of mistakes made on both of our parts, but all of the crazy stuff we went through just ended up making us grow even stronger together.”
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As for immediate next steps, Jowsey told Glamour that Farago plans to move to L.A. “And then we want to get a house so we can have a couple of goats and chickens and four dogs, which is ideal,” he explained to the outlet. “But I think once we live together for probably four days I’ll want to marry her. So that’s the next step.”
Until a second season of Too Hot To Handle is bestowed upon us, all eyes will be on Harry and Francesca’s relationship.
