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.
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![Haris and Olivia Hawkins locked lips in the space girl challenge](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/11c40586-61dd-454d-950c-e01ce3529ecd.jpg?w=820)
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.
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"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.
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“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."
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