Or Is It?

BUA is here 👋🏻

But when your ‘girlfriend’ is constantly papped wearing your merch nobody is going to believe you’re not trying to have a public relationship.

Holivia, Tom Skogs and Tommy Bruce out in NY doing a pap walk - Aug 18 2022 (video shared by pub anon)

PSA: stunt kiss in video.

Pap 1: That looks like Olivia. I think Olivia is with him.

Pap 2 [excitedly]: Oh shit!!!

This is a pap video of the pics of Holivia and H in NY today. The paps knew H was gonna be in the city and they knew they would be photographing him. They posted it on a Q&A last night. They were sat in their car waiting for Harry to leave, they knew exactly where he was, and Harry knew they were outside to take pics.

In the video you see Tom leaves first, the video cuts then jumps to him texting on his phone from the sidewalk.Olivia comes to the glass door, the paps spot her. You can see Harry and Olivia talking, she puts her hand on his face and he gives her a peck. Then he opens the door and leaves, followed by Tommy who was in there with H and Olivia. As H is walking away Olivia says something and he looks back as he keeps walking away.

The rest of the video is H walking around with his managers and Olivia leaving the gym by herself after H, Tom and Tommy went ahead.

Proof paps knew last night they would be doing a pap walk:

“I think a lot of people are quite dumb to how it works,” says the Manchester-based paparazzo Aaron Parfitt. “People think we are scumbags hanging out of trees. But these celebrities are ringing us.” He estimates that 80% of his shots are set up in advance.

Fellow Love Island alumna Rachel Finni, 30, remembers the moment she was inculcated into this secret practice. She was having dinner with a minor celebrity, having just left the show. “He said: ‘I am going to text the pap guy.’” Finni was confused. “He said: ‘Honey, paps only come if you call them!” Over the next few months, she routinely let paparazzi know her plans. “Seeing yourself in the papers and magazines every other day is the most incredible feeling,” she says.

Whether A-lister or otherwise, the reason that celebrities notify paparazzi of their whereabouts is the same. “It’s an exposure game,” says Chad Teixeira, the chairman of the celebrity PR firm Daddy the Agency. “It’s about keeping relevant.” Teixeira often contacts paparazzi on behalf of his clients. “What everyone has to remember is that everyone is just doing their job,” says Teixeira. “Celebrities need paps to promote their profiles. Papers need celebrities to earn an income. One can’t exist without the other.”

“The people who want to be seen will be seen,” says Harris.