Love Island’s booted star Haris Namani reveals he was banned from kissing games over health issue

LOVE Island star Haris Namani confessed he was banned from kissing in challenges.

The 21-year-old revealed that producers of the show banned him from locking lips with his fellow islanders.

Haris, who was coupled up with Olivia Hawkins, had to sit out kissing challenges due to a cold sore on his lip.

The star disguised the health issue with makeup whilst in the South African villa – before being brutally dumped alongside Anna-May Robey.

Chatting with Will Njobvu on his Reality podcast, Haris explained: “I had a cold sore for three days.

“The beer pong challenge, I couldn’t kiss on that, I couldn’t kiss on something else, so for three days I was out.”

Will then asked: “So, you was told by producers that you couldn’t kiss?”

To which Haris admitted: “Yeah, I was taking like eight tablets a day to get it away because I was that fuming. I said, ‘I need to get rid of this!'”

Anna-May, 20, joined Haris on the podcast and chimed in: “He was coming into the girls’ dressing room to have his make-up done every day.”

Haris then detailed: “I kissed Olivia in the space challenge because it had gone by then but that day I got kicked off.”

The host shared his sympathy for Haris and his lack of smooching on the show, stating: “Cold sores are the worst, they come at the most inconvenient time!”

Haris was dumped from the show just hours after The Sun revealed footage of him embroiled in a violent street brawl.

But the TV salesman defended his actions, stating: “I’m devastated that this video has been seen, it’s not a reflection of my character.

“I’m not someone that goes looking for fights and I didn’t want to be in that situation. This was a heat of the moment thing. 

“The video doesn’t show everything that happened. Afterwards we met up and we cleared the air; we’ve shaken hands and we get along now. 

“It’s not something that would happen again.”