The dating world is a tough one, even for A-list celebrities.
Celebrities have taken different approaches to finding their dream partner. Many have had high-profile relationships with fellow stars, while others have dated outside the spotlight and kept their love lives fairly private.
Some celebrities have had success using dating apps. Here are a few who’ve started relationships on screen.
Many celebrities met their spouses on dating apps. (Jeff Moore/PA Images via Getty Images; Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
Matt Damon, George Clooney, Jerry Seinfeld, and other A-listers who married outside the spotlight
- Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens
- David Harbour and Lily Allen
- Nick Kroll and Lily Kwon
- Hannah Brown and Adam Woolard
1. Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens
The Olympic gymnast and NFL player’s relationship began in 2020 on the dating app Raya.
Biles was the first to reach out to her future lover.
“He told me that I’d slid into his direct messages,” the gymnast told The Wall Street Journal , “and I saw him and I was like, ‘Oh, he’s so cute,’ so I said hi. Then I found out he was in the Houston area, we started chatting a little bit, and we hung out a week or two later.”
Owens has since claimed that he didn’t know who Biles was when she first contacted him.
Gymnast Simone Biles and Chicago Bears safety Jonathan Owens met on the dating app Raya. (Jamie Sabau/Getty Images)
“I was literally on the app for a couple days and then she popped up out of nowhere and I was like, ‘Let me see who it is.’ I’d never really paid much attention to gymnastics so it just piqued my curiosity,” the Chicago Bears safety said on the 2023 “Pivot” podcast.
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In February 2022, Owens proposed to Biles, and the couple married in April 2023.
2. David Harbour and Lily Allen
The “Stranger Things” star met his now-wife on a dating app.
In a 2022 interview with GQ Hype, Harbour detailed how the two connected virtually.
“I was in London by myself doing Black Widow and I was dating on this app, and so, yeah, I started texting her,” the actor recalled.
“She was in Italy at the time and we got together and had a date in Wolseley. [a restaurant]”And she was just incredible,” he added.
While filming Black Widow, David Harbour joined a dating app and met his future wife, Lily Allen. (Gotham/Getty Images)
During an interview on “The Jonathan Ross Show” in 2023, Allen shared her thoughts on the matter.
“It was my first time using the dating app, I scrolled to David’s profile and hit ‘approve,'” she recalled.
Harbour’s profile picture showed him in the trademark police uniform he often wears on “Stranger Things,” an outfit Allen was unfamiliar with.
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“I didn’t know who he was. He was in a police uniform so I thought he was a sexy cop from a reality TV show. It was a still from Stranger Things. I’d never seen Stranger Things,” Allen continued.
The couple married in Las Vegas in September 2020, complete with an Elvis Presley impersonator.
3. Nick Kroll and Lily Kwon
Raya was yet another handy addition to comedian Nick Kroll and his now-wife Lily Kwong.
Kroll spoke about how he and Kwon connected during a 2020 episode of the podcast “You Up with Nikki Glaser.”
Comedian Nick Kroll and his current wife Lily Kwon met on a dating app but never met in person for a while. (Rodan Eckenroth/FilmMagic)
“I think she messaged me first, and I was really happy,” he told Glaser. “She was in New York and I was in Los Angeles. We had a long [time] We never met each other. We just chatted casually, and then one day we met in New York, we liked each other, and slowly our relationship developed.”
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Kwon, a landscape gardener, and Kroll married in November 2020.
Their intimate wedding took place in Big Sur, California.
4. Hannah Brown and Adam Woolard
After appearing on “The Bachelorette,” Brown tried out dating apps, which led to her meeting her now-fiancé, Woolard.
In a video posted to her YouTube channel in 2021, Brown explained how she and her future husband met.
“I was the one who chased him first,” Brown said in the video, “but he was the one who really chased me,” she added later.
“Bachelorette” alum Hannah Brown met her fiancé, Adam Woolard, on a dating app. (Santiago Felipe/Getty Images)
“First of all, I loved his photo,” Brown said in the video.
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She said on the “Better Tomorrow” podcast last year that she had only made limited use of dating apps before meeting Woolard.
“I feel like I should tell a whole story about our relationship in general, but we met on a dating app,” Brown said. “And it’s crazy, I’ve had really good luck with dating apps. I met Adam a little over a week after I started using them…maybe two weeks.”
Woolard proposed to Brown on Aug. 24, 2023, at a farm in Tennessee.
