Lucy Hale and Harry Jowsey are “having fun” dating, a source exclusively tells Us Weekly.
“They are spending time together in [New York City] and it’s very new,” the insider shares, adding that Jowsey, 27, “initiated things” with Hale, 35, after sending her a DM on Instagram.
The source notes that the pair’s mutual sobriety is what caused them to initially “hit it off.” The Pretty Little Liars alum, the insider says, has been “very supportive toward” Jowsey and “his decision” to cut out alcohol.
“It’s casual and they are having fun, but Harry is very into Lucy,” the source continues. “Friends around them think they are very cute and are a good, yet surprising match.”
Hale first opened up about her efforts to get sober in February 2023, when she revealed via Instagram that she was celebrating one year of sobriety. She opened up about the journey further while on an episode of “The Diary of a CEO” podcast later that month.
“I have been working on getting sober since I was 20. I’m 33. It takes time. It took time. It took patience with myself,” she shared, admitting she thought the “real Lucy” came out when she drank which eventually became “exhausting.”
While speaking to People in September 2023, Hale, who was 32 at the time and first began drinking at the age of 18, recalled her “rock bottom” moment with alcohol, claiming that she would have “lost everything” she “cared about” had she continued on “the path” of alcohol dependency.
“It was the scariest choice in my life, but also it’s been the best gift,” she explained. “When I made that change, everything else changed. My whole life has changed.”
She continued, “I definitely had to go through my own process of getting sober. took many, many, many years, many relapses, many dark moments, many falling on my face quite literally, but figuratively as well, to figure out what was working in my life, finding out why I was drinking, because removing alcohol is just one part of it.”
In January, Hale revealed that she is officially three years sober.
“Since then, I’ve experienced moments that can only be described as pure miracles and magic. I am deeply grateful every day — for the people who have been guiding lights, for a power greater than myself that loves me unconditionally, and for my own perseverance in not giving up,” she wrote via Instagram to mark the major milestone. “To all of you who have supported my journey, I have felt your love and it means everything to me.”
Jowsey, for his part, first opened up about his desire to get sober in 2022. He told Newsweek at the time that he wanted to “realign my goals and focus on the man that I want to be in five years” after realizing that alcohol had become a reward system.
“I took a step back thought I could go down that path and I could go so badly into it, or I could just say, ‘This isn’t going to define me,’” he said. “I want to be focused and get my health and my career to everything it can be.”
In January, the Too Hot to Handle star took to Instagram to again declare his desire to get sober, sharing that he had been “peeing the bed” too often.
“There’s been too many nights where I’ve got a little bit too drunk and accidentally peed the bed,” he said in an Instagram video. “I’ve made a sausage of myself. That’s why this year I am declaring a sober 2025.”
