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Couple gets huge surprise from Harry Styles after he took a photo of them during chance meeting

"As promised, hope you guys had a great trip. H."

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Harry Styles shared photo he took with fan Jess and sent it to her Instagram DM.

Harry Styles is a man of his word. The "Watermelon Sugar" singer, 31, shocked two fans he met during a trip to Rome back in March 2025 with the surprise of a lifetime.

Styles snapped a photo of fan Jess (@jesshehehe123) and her boyfriend Ted on his digital camera while out exploring the city, then asked for Ted's Instagram handle. The couple also took a selfie with him. She never expected to truly hear from the singer...until she got a request from him in her DMs nearly two months later.

"message request from Harry Styles is ridiculous #help," she captioned the video.

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message request from Harry Styles is ridiculous #help

To her surprise, Styles followed through and sent her the photo that he took on his camera of the couple. On TikTok, she shared her reaction. "guys. wtf. Harry Styles sent the picture."

In the video, Jess keeps viewers waiting to reveal exactly what the DM said. In a screenshot of the message, Styles wrote, "As promised, hope you guys had a great trip. H."

On Instagram, Jess shared a carousel of photos from her trip to Rome with Ted, including details of how she met Styles. "a sequence of events (that i will never shut up about)," she captioned the post.

In it, she documented that she and Ted had rented a Surrey bicycle and were biking through the city when she spotted Styles. They snapped a selfie with him, and Styles also took their photo.

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i genuinely don’t feel like i’ll ever recover what do i do now

Jess also shared more details about the interaction with Styles on TikTok, and how they patiently waited for him to send the photo through. In another post from March, Jess shared on TikTok that she doubted Styles would ever get in touch. She wrote, "Harry Styles took a photo of me on his digital camera in Rome, took my boyfriends insta name, and he never sent it over."

And in another video, she noted that she'd had "11 days of foot tapping" waiting for Styles to send the photo. "girls pls can everyone tell harry styles to hurry up and send over the digital camera pic that he took of me," she wrote.

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11 days of foot tapping

Her waiting paid off, and Styles was a man of his word. In an interview with PEOPLE, Jess said, "Harry was genuinely lovely."

Jess was asked by one viewer on TikTok, "How did you even react when you got the notification!? 🤣" And she replied, "screamed the house down."

The interaction had Styles fans going nuts over his integrity. "I thought he’d at least be in the picture omg he really just took the picture FOR you," one commented. And another added, "And the thought that HE DIDNT FORGET ABOUT IT!!! he CHOSE to take the picture and he CHOSE to send it TWO MONTHS LATER and he didn’t even forget 🥹 warms my heart." Another viewer commented, "I’d be insufferable and that would 100% be my whole personality 😂! Also - the pic is so cute haha ☺️," and Jess replied, "has been for the last 2 months hahahahaha!!!"

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Skittles takes out a full-page ad asking people to stop throwing candy at Harry Styles

Skittles can hurt.

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Harry Styles live on stage June, 2022.

Singer Harry Styles was hit in the face with a Skittle thrown by an audience member at a concert in Los Angeles on Monday, November 14. As he thanked the crowd during his Love On Tour concert he can be seen wincing and holding his eye.

Luckily, the “Watermelon Sugar” singer recovered from the incident because getting hit with a flying object from a far distance could cause serious injury.

The incident inspired Skittles to speak out on Twitter. “Didn’t think I needed to say this: Please don’t throw Skittles,” the candy company tweeted.

“The entire fandom thanks you for this. I think the person that threw them should be banned from ever buying them again,” a Styles fan responded to the tweet.


Here’s footage of the incident.


Skittles took things a step further on Saturday, November 19, by posting a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times warning people not to hurl their candy at anyone. “Protect the rainbow. Taste the rainbow. But please, don’t throw the rainbow,” the ad read.

This isn't the first time Styles has been hit with objects on stage. Earlier this year, he was hit in the crotch with a water bottle. He played the direct hit off with his trademark humor, “That's unfortunate.”

He was also assaulted with a chicken nugget. After the crowd demanded he eat it, he refused because he’s a vegetarian. Plus, it was cold.

Let's hope that all of the publicity surrounding the pegging doesn’t inspire copycat Skittle tossers to pelt Styles even further. Styles probably doesn’t want Skittle hurling to become a concert tradition like when people throw toilet paper and shoot off squirt guns while watching “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

Styles isn’t the first rock star to be assaulted on stage with candy.

The Beatles had some real troubles in their early years after guitarist George Harrison admitted that he loves jelly beans. Fans reacted by pelting him with candy while the band played on stage.

“We don't like Jelly Babies, or Fruit Gums for that matter, so think how we feel standing on stage trying to dodge the stuff, before you throw some more at us,” he wrote to a fan in 1963. “Couldn't you eat them yourself, besides it is dangerous. I was hit in the eye once with a boiled sweet, and it's not funny!”

The Foo Fighters had a similar problem after they made fun of Mentos commercials in the video for their 1996 hit, “Big Me.”

"Every time we played it, it would just start raining Mentos, and them mother fu**ers hurt," Grohl said according to Gigwise. "We did a show in Canada and, in the middle of the song, someone threw a pack, and it hit me right in the face. I was so pissed, I picked it up and said, 'It's been 10 fu**ing years since that video.'"

Here’s Grohl explaining the situation on stage.

Warning: Strong language.

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Harry Styles stops in the middle of concert to help a fan come out

Fans have been using his shows to come out since 2018.

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Harry Styles makes his concerts safe spaces to come out.

Coming out can be an emotionally fraught process. Even when you're secure in your queerness, there's still a sense of fear and hesitation. Because it's so emotional, people sometimes choose an unconventional way to do it. That includes coming out in an unlikely place … like a Harry Styles concert. Yes, this has happened more than once.

Most recently, a fan of Styles used the singer's help to come out as gay during the Love On Tour 2022 stop at London's Wembley Stadium.

In a clip posted to Twitter, Styles picks up a cardboard sign that had been thrown onto the stage.

"From Ono to Wembley: help me come out," the sign reads.

"So you would like the people of Wembley to bring you out?" Styles asks, a smile on his face. You can tell he's done this before, and that he's genuinely excited to do it again.

"When this sign," he begins, but returns the sign to the fan and picks up a Pride flag.

"When this flag goes over my head, you're officially gay, my boy," he says with a proud smile on his face. Of course, the crowd begins to cheer.

Styles runs back and forth waving the flag, but hesitates before raising it over his head, joking, "still straight!" before he continues to run. Then he stops, raises the flag in the air while throwing his head back triumphantly.

"Congratulations, Mattia, you are a free man!" Styles screams as the crowd roars.

Styles then takes another minute to revel in what has just happened. It's obvious he takes his role of helping fans come out seriously. There's a level of trust and care between Styles and his fans underpinning what everyone has just witnessed.

Being in the audience of a Harry Styles concert when a fan comes out is both intimate and big. People make the choice to do it knowing their declaration will become a YouTube video or news article by the next morning, and that never seems to scare them. It seems that there's something liberating about coming out to thousands of strangers.

As a longtime Harry Styles fan, I've seen this happen in real life. During the Los Angeles dates of Love On Tour 2021, I attended two shows where fans used the concert as an opportunity to come out. Styles asked each fan if they had an item they wanted him to hold to signal their official outing. He then ran around the stage building the anticipation until the glorious moment the item was lifted over his head and the crowd erupted. It was an honor to be part of such a life-changing moment.

Styles isn't a stranger to helping his fans come out during one of his concerts. In 2018, during a tour stop in San Jose, California, Styles helped another fan come out.

"I'm going to come out to my parents because of you," says the sign Styles reads to the audience. Although the parents weren't in attendance (they were in a nearby hotel), Styles still took the opportunity to help.

"I'm going to tell Tina before you get a chance to," he said.

"Tina, she's gay!" he yells, before telling the young woman that her mom "says" that she loves her. The video has become a bit of an inside joke among fans, but proves that he has always been willing to provide a safe space for his fans.

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