{"id":287842,"date":"2025-07-24T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287842\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:00:16","slug":"love-islands-harrison-and-lauren-take-next-step-in-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287842\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Island&#8217;s Harrison and Lauren take next step in relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-jucsq3 emevuu60\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/uk\/entertainment\/a65386615\/when-is-the-love-island-uk-2025-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/uk\/entertainment\/a65386615\/when-is-the-love-island-uk-2025-final\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Love Island&#039;s\" data-node-id=\"0.0.0\" class=\"body-link css-egnagj emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">Love Island&#8217;s<\/a> Harrison, 22, and Lauren, 26, have officially closed things off in their relationship and are now &#8220;exclusive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-jucsq3 emevuu60\">Speaking to Cosmopolitan UK after leaving the Villa last week, the pair revealed while they are not in a relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend, they have closed things off.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-jucsq3 emevuu60\">When asked if they were closed off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/uk\/entertainment\/a65446509\/love-island-harrison-quit-reason\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/uk\/entertainment\/a65446509\/love-island-harrison-quit-reason\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Harrison\" data-node-id=\"3.1\" class=\"body-link css-egnagj emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">Harrison<\/a> said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve not had the proper conversation, I feel like Lauren knows where my head is at. I left the Villa to pursue things with Lauren. I feel like we don&#8217;t really need to speak about it either. I feel like we know both where our heads are at. But for me the big thing was her meeting my family before I made anything official. That will be coming in the next week or so. I have no doubt we&#8217;ll be boyfriend and girlfriend very soon.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"css-jucsq3 emevuu60\">The pair were then asked if they were &#8220;exclusive&#8221; but not in a &#8220;relationship&#8221;, to which Harrison replied: &#8220;Yeah, I would say I&#8217;ve only got eyes for Lauren and I hope it&#8217;s same [he gestures to Lauren]. This is the first time we&#8217;re talking about it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-jucsq3 emevuu60\">Lauren then added: &#8220;I feel like we&#8217;ve just not had to say it, like we just know and obviously we did our first post together yesterday. So I feel like that&#8217;s a big thing.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"harrison and lauren in the villa\" title=\"Love Island Harrison and Lauren still together\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/love-island-harrison-and-lauren-6882071550cc0.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-theme-key=\"base-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/uk\/entertainment\/a65496486\/love-island-harrison-lauren-still-together\/&amp;description=- CosmopolitanUK&amp;media=https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/love-island-harrison-and-lauren-6882071550cc0.jpg?resize=1600:*\" class=\"pinterest css-on9hn5 e1c1bym14\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-dynamic-svg=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/social\/pinterest.e8cf655.svg?primary=%2523ffffff\" loading=\"lazy\" data-testid=\"dynamic-svg-base\" height=\"auto\" width=\"auto\" alt=\"pinterest\" class=\"css-4lml0h e1mlxuuw1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joel Anderson\/\/ITV<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-jucsq3 emevuu60\">The pair met on the current season of Love Island, when Harrison entered Casa Amor and quickly fell for Lauren. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"css-jucsq3 emevuu60\">However, back in the Villa he had been pursuing a connection with Toni. When Harrison chose to reenter the main Villa and bring Lauren with him it kicked off one of the series&#8217; biggest love triangles. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"css-jucsq3 emevuu60\">While Harrison and Lauren were getting to know each other intimately, he was still pursuing things with Toni and made his feelings for her apparent when he suggested she should pick him at the next recoupling.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"12\" class=\"css-jucsq3 emevuu60\">Thsi moment happened the night after Lauren and Harrison had slept together, and so when Toni picked Harrison at the recoupling it led to confusion and upset amongst the Villa. Lauren was left to recouple with Ty. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"harrison has quit love island\" title=\"Harrison has quit Love Island\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/harrison-love-island-quit-687a2d0f99017.png\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-theme-key=\"base-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/uk\/entertainment\/a65496486\/love-island-harrison-lauren-still-together\/&amp;description=- CosmopolitanUK&amp;media=https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/harrison-love-island-quit-687a2d0f99017.png?resize=1600:*\" class=\"pinterest css-on9hn5 e1c1bym14\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-dynamic-svg=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/social\/pinterest.e8cf655.svg?primary=%2523ffffff\" loading=\"lazy\" data-testid=\"dynamic-svg-base\" height=\"auto\" width=\"auto\" alt=\"pinterest\" class=\"css-4lml0h e1mlxuuw1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ITV<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"14\" class=\"css-jucsq3 emevuu60\">After spending a day or two together in a new couple, Toni and Harrison still weren&#8217;t sure where they stood with each other and Harrison continued to get to know Lauren. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"15\" class=\"css-jucsq3 emevuu60\">Last week, new bombshell Angel entered the Villa and chose to recouple with Ty, this meant Lauren was single and dumped from the Villa. She then asked Harrison to leave the Villa with her but while he debated packing his bags, he didn&#8217;t go that evening. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"16\" class=\"css-jucsq3 emevuu60\">However, the next night he told his fellow Islanders he had chosen to leave the Villa to carry on getting to know Lauren. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"17\" class=\"css-jucsq3 emevuu60\">Since they&#8217;ve been reunited outside the Villa the pair have spent the majority of their time together and appear to be going strong. <\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"18\" class=\"css-jucsq3 emevuu60\">Love Island continues on ITV2 and ITVX <\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Love Island&#8217;s Harrison, 22, and Lauren, 26, have officially closed things off in their relationship and are now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[1380,107515,1331,77,1330,107514,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-287842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-6f7eac84-3f75-4718-b4a0-d3ad6794a23a","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-locale-gb","13":"tag-shorttitle-lis-harrison-and-lauren-share-relationship-update","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114908104996740759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}