Francesca & Harry Just Got Engaged on the 'Too Hot to Handle' Reunion

From ELLE

Spoilers for Too Hot to Handle below.

On April 17, Netflix answered our prayers for some mindless reality TV with the new show Too Hot to Handle, a program in which a bunch of sexy people inadvertently go on a sexless retreat together for one month. That’s right. These sex-positive, commitment-phobic humans are thrown together in a house and can’t have sex. They can’t kiss. They can’t masturbate. If they do, money is deducted from a $100,000 pot. Most of these people are models who love to wear tight clothing and take selfies. Let’s just say they lose some money. (Come on; was that really a spoiler?)

From the beginning, some key couples stood out among the crowd. Francesca Farago, a “plant-based” model from Vancouver with her own clothing label, and Harry Jowsey, a man from Queensland, Australia, who has a clothing company called Naughty Possums, were attracted to each other from day one. Now, here’s where we get into some spoilers, so in case you haven’t already watched this thing in one sitting, you might want to stop reading now.

Farago and Jowsey broke the rules more than anyone else on the show. They lost the group a significant portion of the collective $100,000 prize money by making out, having sex, and getting frisky under the sheets. This made a lot of people unhappy, but the pair somehow managed to redeem themselves (and the money they’d lost) by going one night without touching each other. These two seemed pretty hopeless in the beginning, to be honest; they were the first ones to break the rules, they never seemed to know what they wanted, and they stole all the attention away from the other contestants. But in the end, they were pretty cute, I guess. Jowsey even entertained the idea of moving to Vancouver.

So, did that happen? Where are these sexy people now, and are they together?

Their current relationship status has been confirmed.

On April 23, Jowsey teased on his Instagram, "Who’s ready for the big reveal tomorrow? What do you think I’m going to post 😅😂 #TooHotToHandle," alerting his 1 million followers that a relationship update was on the way. Ultimately, it was Farago's IG that announced the couple's fate: they're currently together.

"always been you.. @harryjowsey♥️," she captioned a close-up photo of the couple laughing, ending all doubts about whether these two are dating.

However, the couple isn't currently quarantining together. "It's hard being away from him because he is in Los Angeles and I am in Vancouver," Farago told Entertainment Tonight. "But once this quarantine is over, we are going to move in together and it's going to be amazing and magical. We are going to get married and have kids!" In the meantime, they're keeping in touch. "I think we FaceTime probably 10 times a day," she said to Glamour. "I'm always calling him. So we talk probably ridiculous amounts, I think." Jowsey reiterated to the mag, "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."

They're still together today.

On the reunion for Too Hot to Handle, which is appropriately called Extra Hot: The Reunion, we learn from the couple (who are, indeed, social distancing separately), that they took a break for eight whole months. This separation followed Jowsey's trip to Vancouver, where Farago's grandmother properly roasted him by calling him a small-town bumpkin (my words) who doesn't "know the world" (hers). Farago also visited Jowsey's home in Australia. After globetrotting together, the two decided they would go their separate ways, Jowsey explained to the show's host, Desiree Burch, over their video call.

It turns out they weren't done. Jowsey texted Farago and asked to FaceTime her, then she said, he sent her "like, 5o videos" from their relationship together. She said watching them made her nostalgic for the relationship. In Jowsey's words, he was the "big papi chulo just came in and stole the queen." (You have been living in L.A. for a while," Burch quipped.)

So, what about the future for these two? Jowsey said that, following pandemic madness, Farago is considering moving to L.A. and they've been looking at rings. And then Jowsey got down on one knee and proposed with a ring pop.

"Harry knows I want to marry him, so yes, of course," Farago responds.

So, I guess we just saw an engagement?!

The couple has matching tattoos.

The pair has made a major commitment in their relationship already. During their conversation with ET, the couple exclusively revealed they've got lightning bolt tattoos on the inside of their index fingers. "I visited her when I was in Ottawa, and it was something that we wanted to get for a while," Jowsey told the outlet. "We had a lot of negativity around our relationship. 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!"

Francesca added that the lighting bolt idea originated from the Yoni Puja workshop with relationship expert Shan. She explained, "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 recalled. "I put little lightning bolts all over it, so it just kind of represented our experience as a whole together."

They're planning for marriage and babies.

"Long story short, I flew her down, fell in love again and now we want to get married," Jowesey told Entertainment Tonight about the couple's journey to marriage talk. "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!"

He even told the outlet that he planned to take the $7,500 he won from the show to propose to Francesca in Paris. However, current plans are on hold due to COVID-19 safety concerns. And quarantining apart has only made the heart grow fonder. "After quarantine, it's probably going to be a few months [until I see her]," Jowsey told ET. "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."

In the past, they visited each other in their respective hometowns.

The show was filmed at the Casa Tau resort in Punta Mita, Mexico last summer, so a lot has happened since then. According to Farago’s Instagram, she visited Jowsey’s homeland, Australia, on June 30 of last year. She took a photo with a kangaroo. Original.

Jowsey took a photo at the Cooberrie Park Wildlife Sanctuary at the same time as his reality TV love, so it’s safe to say that was a date. Okay, okay, so Farago only tagged “Gold Coast, Queensland” on her Instagram, but that wildlife sanctuary is located in Queensland. Also, speaking as an American who has flown to Australia to visit a crush, the first thing you have to do when you get there is pose with a kangaroo. It makes sense that this is exactly where Jowsey and Farago would head for a little one-on-one tourist time.

Jowsey also appeared to be a perfectly acceptable Instagram boyfriend during Farago’s visit.

If you scroll up their grids a little further, you’ll see Jowsey actually made his way to Vancouver before Farago’s visit to Australia. Here’s a photo of him posing in a car on June 27 with the geotag West Vancouver.

Aaaand here’s Farago with the same bright-green car. “Who wants a ride? 🚕”:

It’s clear Harry and Francesca may have had some breaks.

What do we do to check if someone’s single? We check their Valentine’s Day Instagram posts, of course. Obviously the couple hadn’t been posting pictures together since the show, because that would spoil the ending and, in effect, our quarantine. But it’s hard to be vague on Valentine’s Day if you’re single and in your feelings about it.

Here’s Jowsey’s V-Day post, with the caption, “As Valentine’s Day approaches it’s a good time to think about relationships and how it’s two people coming together to solve problems you wouldn’t have if you were just single.” Comments from fans, such as one that reads “Bachelor Jowsey,” made it seem like this guy was doing life on his own right now.

Meanwhile, Farago posted from “Single Island.” Her caption? "happy V day to everyone getting drunk w their friends tonight & NOT texting their exs ;)".

Jowsey confirmed the months-long breakup to Glamour. "We broke up for a few months," he told the outlet. "It was probably the best thing that could've happened because when we got back together we were stronger than ever. We just needed a few months to debrief. Now that we're back, everything's been amazing and couldn't be happier with our relationship. I mean, minus the fact that we're not in the same country right now. Other than that, it's perfect."

They both spend time in Los Angeles.

It looks like Jowsey spends most of his time in L.A., and he’s currently quarantining there during the coronavirus pandemic.

Farago appears to be quarantined in Vancouver, but her bio on her Instagram account does read “⇄ vancouver/LA.” Does this mean they cross paths? TBD.

Their friends always seemed to stan them as a couple.

When people are sheltering in place, they get bored. When they get bored, they comment on their friend’s ex’s Instagram account. Kristian Barbarich and Jacob Botica, who, based on their past Instagram comments, are friends of Jowsey’s, both commented on Farago’s Instagram post with the caption “tag your quarantine buddy.”

Barbarich tagged Botica and Jowsey with sad-eyes emojis. “Hi can we all quarantine together??” Farago wrote back.

On another photo, Botica asked to be a “flower girl” at Farago’s wedding—not necessarily Farago and Jowsey’s wedding, but a wedding.

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