- - Chris Olsen Reflects on Meeting and Falling for Boyfriend Harrison Dockerty During 'One of the Hardest Years' of His Life

Luke ChinmanJanuary 1, 2026 at 1:22 AM

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In an emotional year-end reflection shared to Instagram, influencer Chris Olsen admitted he has the "biggest crush" on boyfriend Harrison Dockerty

The internet star called 2025 "one of the hardest years" after his grandma died in September

Olsen first soft-launched his new relationship with his partner in an Oct. 17 TikTok post, sharing a collection of clips of them together with his boyfriend’s face blurred out

Chris Olsen is reflecting on his 2025.

In an emotional Instagram post uploaded on Dec. 31, the 28-year-old influencer looked back at the year, which he described as "one of the hardest" after the death of his grandma in September.

"When Lola and I made all of our videos together, I knew that eventually I would be glad I had them to look back on, but I thought we’d have time to make so many more," he shared. "I am grateful for the fact that the last time we saw each other before she was in the hospital was at one of my shows, where I pointed her out and made sure everyone cheered for her."

The social media star continued his reflection by mentioning several of the "positive" things that have happened in his life in the months since — namely, his budding romance with London-based real estate analyst Harrison Dockerty.

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Chris Olsen and Harrison Dockerty

"I met my Harry who I have the biggest crush on," he wrote. "I have a clear path of what I want moving my forward with my life, and for the first time in a while, I have hope that it will all happen. I know an outlook like this can always come and go, but I will hold onto it as long as I can because that’s all Lola would want."

The internet personality first soft-launched his partner in an Oct. 17 TikTok post, sharing a collection of clips of them together with his boyfriend’s face blurred out.

“I’m not tryna be a couple acc again and for once I’m being more private & that’s nice,” wrote Olsen in the caption. “I knowww the censor is annoyingggg but I still want to make these kinds of vids bc I am vvvv happyyyyy.”

Over the last two months, he continued to tease the relationship across social media, sharing their Superman and Clark Kent couples costume, travels in Europe, and their spin on the viral “Beez in the Trap” lip-sync trend — all of which hid the identity of Olsen’s new beau.

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Chris Olsen and Harrison Dockerty

Before revealing his identity, Olsen did give rare comments about his boyfriend at the New York City premiere of Wicked: For Good in November, telling PEOPLE exclusively on the red carpet that both he and his partner are swooning over PEOPLE's 2025 Sexiest Man Alive, Jonathan Bailey.

"We both have said that he is our celebrity crush," said Olsen. “He's been my celebrity crush since before I was born, before I even knew who he was. The universe drew me to him."

And on Dec. 22, the creator shared that he is dating Dockerty, captioning a romantic video of himself traveling across the bond, flower bouquet in tow, "finally found him."

Olsen previously shared his public relationship to content creator Ian Paget in 2020, gaining notoriety online as the pair quarantined together. The pair announced their split in January 2022, and Olsen later said that he planned to document less of his future relationships online.

“If I were to get into another relationship, I would never, never share it in the way that we did,” Olsen told Paget when they reunited over a year after their breakup. “Relationships are complicated in general; having other opinions only really makes it harder."

In the years since, Olsen has garnered the attention of the internet through his viral series delivering coffees to A-listers, as well as when he spoke out about being targeted by intimate image abuse (sometimes referred to as “revenge porn”) and had a “public breakdown” in 2024 that prompted him to reconsider his relationship to the internet.

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Chris Olsen and Harrison Dockerty

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"I could have kept going the way that I was probably forever and maybe continue growing my account and making money," Olsen shared in an interview with PEOPLE last year. "But the day after I had a breakdown, I was like, 'Why didn't I do that sooner?' That had been living within me and been building up for months and months and months, and it felt so good to let it out, and it felt so good to just be real."

He continued at the time: “I decided whatever I was doing wasn't working anymore for me personally. So I decided to change everything I was doing.”

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