Is Netflix's Too Hot To Handle Fake?

As Elle reported, Harry's fellow former "Too Hot to Handle" contestant Nicole O'Brien claimed that everything viewers witnessed in the show's first season was real. However, not everything that went down made the final cut. "It's filmed over a whole month, and footage is slimmed down into eight episodes — of course you don't see everything," she told Cosmopolitan, adding, "there were some parts of my personal growth that were missed."

Elsewhere, ex-contestant Francesca Farago also revealed that, prior to filming "Too Hot to Handle," she was not informed of the strict "no sex" rule until cameras started rolling. During an interview with Esquire, Farago explained that although she wasn't sure of the show's format, she was "open" to the experience.

"When we landed for filming we found out it was going to be more along the lines of a dating show, and I was super excited for that. But the first few days in the villa, we still had no idea really why we were there."  Francesca continued, "And then when the bomb dropped that it was like a self-discovery growth experience, it was kind of a shock."