The TSITP Movie Set Leaks May Be Fake, and Jenny Han Has Done This Before
The most dangerous prop on The Summer I Turned Pretty movie set may not be the ring on Belly's finger. It may be the fact that Jenny Han knows exactly how quickly the fandom will decide what that ring means.
Since filming began, short videos and distant photographs have appeared to reveal an impressive amount. Footage captured in Southport, North Carolina, on April 30 showed Belly and Conrad, Steven and Taylor, and Jeremiah sitting beside an unidentified blonde woman during a boat scene. Viewers also thought they could see a ring on Belly's left hand. Cosmopolitan described it as a possible “triple date,” with the mystery woman apparently taking Denise's place beside Jeremiah.
Then came the larger leak. In June, another fan video appeared to show Belly in a wedding dress with Conrad at Cousins Beach. The footage was quickly reported as Belly and Conrad's wedding. It seemed to confirm the ending many readers have expected since the movie was announced: Belly and Conrad will finally get the Cousins wedding that closes Jenny Han's third book.
It all looks convincing. Unfortunately, this is the one production where “it was filmed” and “it happens in the story” are two completely different claims.
During Season 3, fans spotted Lola Tung and Gavin Casalegno filming together in Paris. One widely shared clip showed Jeremiah running towards Belly and hugging her. Since Jeremiah never visits Belly abroad in We'll Always Have Summer, the footage looked like proof that Han had changed the ending and reopened the love triangle.
She had not. After the finale aired, Han confirmed that the production had flown Casalegno to Paris and filmed several fake Belly and Jeremiah moments specifically to confuse people watching the set. The scenes had no written dialogue and were added onto real footage the crew already needed, including Belly walking with her suitcase. Casalegno even recalled watching people record from balconies while knowing the material would never appear in an episode. Entertainment Weekly confirmed that the fake reunion was designed to be spotted.
That detail changes how every movie leak should be read. Han's trick did not depend on creating an elaborate false storyline. She only needed one clear image that fans could finish for her: Jeremiah, Belly, Paris, hug. The camera captured something real, but the conclusion attached to it was wrong.
The new footage has the same weakness. It is silent, distant and easy to turn into a complete plot before anyone knows what happens immediately before or after the moment.
And yes, I know. You did not open an investigation just to hear “maybe” for another thousand words. I will not keep you waiting for long. By the end, you will know which leak is probably real, which clue is being stretched too far and which scene has the strongest chance of being a Jenny Han trap.
Take Belly's ring. The photos may show Lola Tung wearing one, although the available images are not clear enough to establish its design. Even if it is a prop on Belly's left hand, it does not tell us who gave it to her, when the scene takes place or whether the scene is part of the movie's present timeline. The ring theory is believable because it fits other evidence, not because the photograph proves an engagement on its own.
The strongest supporting clue comes from the story Han deliberately left unfinished. We'll Always Have Summer ends with Belly and Conrad marrying at Cousins, but the series finale stopped after their Paris reunion. Han explained that she did not want to squeeze another wedding into a few final minutes after spending most of Season 3 planning Belly and Jeremiah's ceremony. She wanted to give Belly's next step more room. Entertainment Weekly reported that the missing book wedding was an intentional omission, and Han later described the movie as the space for one remaining “big milestone” in Belly's life.
That makes a Conrad engagement or wedding highly likely. It still does not make a blurry ring photograph a confirmed plot summary.
Jeremiah's mystery woman is even less reliable. The boat footage appears to place Gavin Casalegno beside a blonde woman who is not Isabella Briggs, the actor who plays Denise. Some coverage has treated that arrangement as evidence that Jeremiah and Denise have broken up and that he has a new girlfriend. But no official casting announcement has identified the woman or her character, and a group seated together on a boat does not automatically become three couples on a date. The footage may show a romantic scene. It may also show friends at a gathering, a rehearsal, a brief montage or a decoy built to produce exactly this discussion.
What can be trusted is much smaller: Jeremiah appears to be part of a Cousins group scene, and an unidentified woman appears beside him. Everything after that is interpretation.
His presence also fits what Han has already said about the movie. She told Entertainment Weekly that the next chapter would explore the awkward reality of dating your former fiance's brother while all three people remain in one another's lives. Jeremiah sharing space with Belly and Conrad is therefore less of a surprise than the footage makes it seem. The real question is not whether he attends the same events. It is what that closeness costs the brothers after everyone has technically received a happy ending.
The apparent wedding footage is the most convincing leak because several separate clues point in the same direction. The book supplies the wedding. The series consciously withheld it. Han promised a major milestone, and the new video appears to show a white dress and Conrad. That is a much stronger chain than “Jeremiah sat beside a blonde, therefore Denise is gone.”
Still, Prime Video has not confirmed the wedding or released an official plot description. Amazon's current movie page says the details remain under wraps. A wedding image could belong to the main timeline, a dream, an imagined future, an alternate take or another piece of misdirection. A full ceremony would be expensive to stage only as a prank, which makes the simplest explanation more likely: some version of Belly and Conrad's wedding probably is in the movie. What the footage cannot reveal is whether the ceremony is the destination, the opening or the setting for the conflict Han has promised.
Even the production's request for privacy does not authenticate every spoiler. The official account said that people sharing locations and visiting the set were disrupting filming and creating safety concerns. That confirms the leaks were a genuine production problem, not that every visible moment belongs in the finished cut. Han can oppose crowds interrupting her cast and still film controlled decoys when she wants to protect a surprise. Paris was planned misdirection. An active set surrounded by uninvited cameras is a different problem.
So here is the verdict.
1. The Bonrad wedding is the leak I would believe. It has support beyond the fan footage: Belly and Conrad marry at Cousins in the book, Han deliberately left that wedding out of the series finale, and she created the movie to give Belly's remaining milestone enough space. The white dress and Conrad do not introduce a random new ending. They show the ending the story has been quietly saving. The ceremony could still appear earlier or later than fans expect, but some version of that wedding is probably in the movie.
2. The ring is likely real, but it is not a separate spoiler. If the movie includes Belly and Conrad's wedding, seeing Belly wear a ring during filming is exactly what we should expect. What cannot be trusted is every theory built around its size, design or the moment Conrad supposedly gives it to her. The photograph supports the wedding. It does not reveal the proposal.
3. Jeremiah's mystery blonde is where I would become suspicious. The woman is visible, but her identity and relationship to Jeremiah are completely unconfirmed. The perfectly arranged “triple date” gives fans a neat answer for every character, which is exactly why it would make an effective decoy. It is visually obvious from a distance, requires no dialogue and instantly creates a new romance that nobody can verify. If Han planted one scene for photographers to find, this is the strongest candidate.
That also means the supposed Jeremiah and Denise breakup should not be treated as real. Denise has not been officially written out, the blonde has not been officially introduced and one arm around another actor cannot confirm an entire relationship. Believe that Jeremiah filmed a boat scene beside a woman. Do not believe the plot that strangers wrote around those few seconds.
Here is what actually holds up and what does not:
→ The core group returning to Cousins is real.
→ The Bonrad wedding is probably real.
→ Belly's ring is supporting evidence, not a complete storyline.
→ Jeremiah's new romance, the Denise breakup and the tidy triple date are the details most likely to be misunderstood, staged or deliberately planted.
Jenny Han no longer has to hide every camera angle. She only has to place one convincing image where the fandom can finish the false story for her.
The wedding looks like the ending Han saved. The triple date looks like the distraction she knew fans would write themselves.