Inside the Love Island 2025 nuisance Harry’s posh footballer life beyond the villa

Um, Harry Cooksley managed to couple up with three different girls within the first five days of being in the Love Island villa. He’s definitely not boring, is he? So, here’s a look at what Harry from Love Island 2025 gets up to when he’s not doing women dirty in the villa.

Harry from Love Island is a Surrey boy

Oh, now it all makes sense. He lives in Guildford, one of the few areas of the UK where mullets are considered cool. Harry has a black spaniel. His Instagram is riddled with pictures of him playing golf and drinking champagne and pretending to read magazines about horses (no, really).

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Harry is really a footballer

He had, like, a gazillion different jobs before signing up for Love Island 2025.

So, he studied at St John’s University in New York. He became a financial analysis, then worked as a recruitment consultant until 2024. Harry’s LinkedIn says he’s “pondering a new career” right now, but Love Island introduced him as a gold trader, so it seems like he’s doing that now.

In 2021, Harry co-founded a nicotine pouch company called Zivi London. The business doesn’t seem to exist anymore.

And yup, he’s a footballer. Harry has played for Real Mallorca in Spain, Pinzgau Saalfelden in Austria and Hartley Wintney in England. He now plays for Farnham Town. The team is in the Premier South Division of the Southern League. Apparently, Harry is known as the “The Surrey Zidane”. It is entirely possible he started that nickname himself.

Oh, and he does modelling work. Harry had 10,000 Instagram followers before Love Island even started, so I guess he counts as a micro-influencer as well?

Um, he has weird connection to Declan Rice?

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Who, fyi, is a famous footballer. Harry is his body double, which sounds like a cool side hustle.

Wow, the expensive hair transplant Harry got must really be paying for itself.

Harry wants us all to know that he reads

He has a whole Instagram highlight devoted to pictures of books he claims to have read.

Did he re-read this one before going on Love Island?

So far, every book on there is either a male celebrity’s autobiography, or a money-orientated self-help book. How fascinating.

But hey, he went to The Eras Tour, so he can’t be all bad.

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Featured image of Harry on Love Island via ITV. Other featured images via his Instagram.