When the camera cuts, the interview isn\u2019t over. With \u201cCut for Time,\u201d TODAY.com asks the burning questions our anchors couldn\u2019t get to on-air.<\/p>\n
Harry Jowsey has flirted his way across the Netflix dating show universe, from his \u201cToo Hot to Handle\u201d debut to his \u201cPerfect Match\u201d antics. But in his new series, \u201cLet\u2019s Marry Harry,\u201d he\u2019s going all in to find his forever beau.<\/p>\n
With \u201cLet\u2019s Marry Harry\u201d production behind him, Harry tells TODAY.com, \u201cIt was perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m in the best place I\u2019ve ever been,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Across the eight-episode season, the 29-year-old reality dating vet pursues 20 hopeful women, each sporting an engagement ring and vying for his hand in marriage \u2014 and the approval of his hand-picked matchmaking squad.<\/p>\n
Jowsey\u2019s friends Amanda Kloots, Sonny Henty and ex-girlfriend Georgia Hassarati of \u201cToo Hot to Handle\u201d all pulled strings behind the scenes, making calls like who gets dates, who gets cut and who gets a step closer to the altar. Executive producer and \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d host Alex Cooper also joined to advise Jowsey as drama reached its boiling point.<\/p>\n
Jowsey joined TODAY\u2019s Jenna Bush Hager and Willie Geist to discuss the show on Aug. 5, its premiere date. The final episode premieres Aug. 12.<\/p>\n
Discussing his evolution from his reality debut to now, Jowsey said, \u201cI feel like that guy back then didn\u2019t really care too much about anyone else\u2019s feelings. I was a class clown, I was going to do whatever I wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n
But for \u201cLet\u2019s Marry Harry,\u201d he joked, he\u2019s \u201cfigured out empathy and thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n
After chatting with Jenna and Willie, Jowsey stuck around to break the rest down for TODAY.com: opening up to commitment, dating on and off screen and the self-help steps that got him ready to say \u201cI do.\u201d<\/p>\n
This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.<\/p>\n
After losing my dad, it was really a pivotal moment in my life. Seeing my sisters with their husbands and kids, and just knowing that I really wish I had that for my dad. Coming back to LA and not having a good support system, I was like, I\u2019ve really got to be serious about love.<\/p>\n
I kept asking for a sign, and they kept showing up. It was good.<\/p>\n
Leading into it, it didn\u2019t really cross my mind until the first day, and then I was like, \u201cOh my God, this is really scary.\u201d I think the first fear, or thought throughout, I was just more upset about hurting people because I don\u2019t want to be that guy anymore, and I don\u2019t want to break anyone\u2019s hearts. And obviously, it\u2019s difficult, because that\u2019s kind of a big thing that happens on dating shows. So I think that was my biggest fear going through the whole thing, I don\u2019t want to break someone\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n
There was so much different. I was reading a bunch of self-help books, and then Amanda Kloots sat me down for four and a half hours before it, just quizzing everything about my dating life and making sure I was ready. I also knew if I didn\u2019t take it serious and if I was playing around and being a silly sausage, it wouldn\u2019t be good for anyone, and it would really suck. Netflix put all this like money into it and love into it, and I just wanted to make sure I was doing it as best I could.<\/p>\n