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New ‘Bachelor’-style dating show stars Jowsey and 20 women who want to marry him
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Harry Jowsey has claimed that Netflix added sexual sound effects to exaggerate a scene in Let’s Marry Harry.
The 29-year-old reality star, known for appearing on the Netflix dating shows Too Hot to Handle and Perfect Match, is the love interest in streamer’s latest offering, a Bachelor-style format where Jowsey dates 20 women who want to marry him.
In an Instagram video shared Monday, Jowsey claimed that a kissing scene between him and one of the finalists, Dannelle Davidson, was exaggerated by the producers and editors to make it seem like they were having sex.
In episode two of the eight-part series, the pair are filmed kissing on a bed, before moving to a hallway where there are no hidden cameras.
The pair are still wearing their mics when subtitles show Jowsey saying, “Happy birthday, darling, I adore you,” and moaning and grunting sounds begins before the episode ends on a cliffhanger.
While that scene suggested that they were having sex, Jowsey claimed via an Instagram Q&A on Monday that the sounds had been added to exaggerate the drama.
“We were just making out,” he said of the scene. “I don’t know where they pulled that audio from, or who that was in that audio, but it was certainly not us.”
The Independent has contacted Netflix for comment.
Jowsey claimed that the producers made it seem “a little more exaggerated” than what actually happened for extra shock factor.
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“It’s a TV show and every three days is one episode, so of course they’re going to put the crazy stuff in there,” he explained. “They needed a big cliffhanger on the end of that episode to keep you hooked, to keep you watching. Again, the greatness of TV to make something seem a little more exaggerated than they actually are.”
He reiterated that “we were literally just kissing in the closet in the early episodes.”
