Lola Tung is one of the breakout stars in the hit Amazon series The Summer I Turned Pretty. She’s discussed what it’s like to be the subject of a very popular teen show that deals with a dramatic love triangle.
After the Season 3 premiere, the Amazon show posted a community guidelines statement regarding the cast and crew of the show. ICYMI, the show deals with a love triangle between Belly (Tung) and brothers Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno). Fans online have been fervent and passionate about the plot for the past two seasons, but the show wanted to clear things up. “Cousins is our safe place. Everything good, everything magical. Let’s keep the conversation kind this summer,” they posted. “We have ZERO tolerance for bullying and hate speech. If you engage in any of the following you will be banned: hate speech or bullying, targeting our cast and crew, harassing or doxxing members of the community.”
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Tung addressed the hardships of playing a character for whom so many people have opinions. “When people have an attachment to the characters, they want to see it come together at the end,” she told Teen Vogue. “I’m so grateful that they care so much, but people get a little scary about it. Please don’t threaten to kill someone if something doesn’t go your way — I promise you, it’s not that serious. Jenny [Han] is so smart and she cares so much about the story and making it the best story that it can be. It will be okay.”
Does Lola Tung have a boyfriend?
Lola Tung doesn’t share her personal life online, and for a good reason. In her Nylon It Girl profile, she revealed that her dating life was pretty mundane compared to her characters.
“It’s hard out here,” she told the publication. “I’m not an apps girl. They’ve always scared me, even in my college days. My friends would be like, ‘Let’s play Tinder,’ and scroll through their Tinders. I’d be like, ‘OK, I’ll just look over your shoulder.’”
“I’m of the mindset of ‘it’ll happen if it’s right,’ she affirms. “I’m hyper-independent, which is good and also sometimes not great. But some men need more time to grow, which is what we also learned from Summer. We’re so quick to try to rush things in life. One of my friends was like, ‘I can’t wait until we’re in our 30s and we’re… whatever.’ But I’m like, ‘Don’t rush it! We’re 22. We can take our time.’”
The star was rumored to be dating TikTok star Noah Beck after they were spotted at a Gracie Abrams concert in August 2025, but nothing appeared to come out of it.
She also was rumored to date her TSITP co-star Chris Briney, but he’s been in a long-term relationship with his college sweetheart, Isabel Machado. She shut down those rumors early on in the show. “Both Chris, who plays Conrad, and Gavin, who plays Jeremiah, are wonderful people and so easy to work with and so much fun to just be around,” she said on TODAY in 2022. “I feel very lucky that we had such a wonderful friendship, and it worked out.”
In an interview with Teen Vogue, she talked about the hard boundaries and advice she received from Jenny Han.
“It starts to get very overwhelming sometimes,” she told the site about the explosive fame. “There are so many people giving their opinions about you, and it can sort of mess with your head. My mind feels a lot clearer when I don’t have social media on my phone.”
That decision led to her not wanting to post anything but work on her social media. “At the end of the day, I’m not posting my family. I post my friends, but not all the time because I want them to feel like they have privacy too,” she explained. “I want people to feel a connection to the show and me, but they also don’t know me personally, and I don’t think anyone owes their personal business to anyone else.”
Despite not sharing anything about her personal life, she shared a little anecdote to Teen Vogue about running into an ex on the New York City streets. “I ran into my middle school boyfriend on the bus the other day,” the actress said. “I was like, ‘Hey.’ He was like, ‘Hey.’ And he just started talking about how now he’s bouldering a lot.”