Harrison has responded to Women’s Aid after it called out his Love Island behaviour

After Women’s Aid slammed his behaviour in Love Island 2025, Harrison Solomon has issued a rather lengthy response and apology – if you can really call it that.

Let’s start at the beginning. Before he left Love Island – of his own free will, apparently – Harrison was accused of manipulating Toni Laites after he slept with Casa Amor bombshell Lauren Wood. He played both of the women before finally settling on Toni, who was very much unaware of his sexual exploits. His treatment of both women, but in particular Toni, drew massive amounts of criticism on just about every social platform.

“Harrison is genuinely one of the most sickening men ever to be on Love Island. All he has done is make Toni AND Lauren feel crazy, and he fully enjoys watching them mentally struggle. Sick, sick man,” one person wrote on Twitter.

Right, so what did Women’s Aid actually say?

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After Harrison’s “toxic” behaviour on Love Island, Women’s Aid responded in an exclusive statement to The Tab.

“In recent years, Love Island and other forms of reality TV have been repeatedly called out by viewers for allowing in contestants that had a history of abusive, coercive and manipulative behaviour in previous relationships,” a spokesperson said.

“As a result, production companies have been more careful when it comes to selecting contestants and calling out toxic behaviours when we see them.”

Though Women’s Aid did acknowledge that Love Island had taken “positive steps” in the right direction, it condemned the “unhealthy patterns of behaviour on these shows.”

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It continued: “Women are often lied to, slut-shamed and manipulated, as well as laughed at behind their backs. Misogyny and sexism lay the foundation for the tolerance of abuse and violence – it reinforces a culture that excuses and trivialises violence against women and girls.

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“More must be done to educate contestants on sexism and misogyny, and it is a great credit to viewers who take to social media, continuing to call out these behaviours as soon as they see them.”

Of course, Harrison soon left the Love Island villa, and while he’s somewhat reacted to the drama on his Instagram, he spoke at length to the MailOnline about the Women’s Aid statement in particular.

Harrison responded to Women’s Aid after leaving Love Island

In the new interview, Harrison addressed his sexual shenanigans, his close relationship with the women in his family, and how “I pride myself on standing up for women and being a protector.”

Specifically on the Women’s Aid statement, he responded: “I have seen the backlash and it’s hard to digest. I would disagree with a lot of it in terms of my respect for women, I do respect women.

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‘The worst has been from Women’s Aid. I know myself and the girls on the show too. Toni said she knows I’m not a bad person, just went about situations in the wrong way, but the Women’s Aid statement wasn’t nice… It’s not nice coming out of the villa to my mum upset by that, so I would say that’s been the hardest.”

Continuing, he addressed the “women I have hurt” and apologised, stating: “I got it wrong and the back and forth between the two connections caused more harm than I ever intended. It wasn’t ever an ego thing. I am not proud of how I handled things, and I’m not going to make excuses.

“I just want to own it. If people can give me the space to grow from it, I will do everything I can to be better, and that’s the only thing I can do. There is no handbook for how to be on a show like Love Island. It’s instincts and intentions. I got some of it right, but I know I got a lot of it wrong, and I know that now.”

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