Strictly star ‘kicked off dating app twice in 8 hours’ after catfishing complaints

TV property Gethin Jones revealed helium has been booted disconnected Hinge aggregate times aft 300 accusations of catfishing.

The 46-year-old BBC Morning Live presenter, who appeared successful play 5 of Strictly Come Dancing, shared the tragic dating app communicative successful a caller interview.

‘A mates of weeks agone I was kicked disconnected Hinge doubly successful 8 hours for violating the Code of Conduct. 300 women had reported maine for catfishing,’ helium said.

The prima joked that intelligibly the paid mentation of the app wasn’t moving for him.

As helium told the caller Restless Natives podcast with Martin Compston & Gordon Smart: ‘It was that infinitesimal erstwhile you person to constitute to Hinge, connected a Thursday night, each alone, “Dear Hinge, it’s Gethin here, 46, I conscionable privation to get my wealth backmost due to the fact that it’s not truly moving for me”, eating immoderate cereal due to the fact that there’s thing successful the fridge.

‘That’s erstwhile I’m like, “What americium I doing with my life?”‘

For the astir part, Gethin keeps his backstage beingness distant from the spotlight, including his romanticist dalliances.

He was engaged to opera singer Katherine Jenkins successful 2011 but the brace broke up conscionable 10 months later.

He’s besides been known to day Towie prima Lucy Mecklenburgh and German exemplary Katja Zwara, with the astir caller rumours linking him with First Dates’ Cici Coleman successful 2023.

The Welsh prima has besides antecedently opened up connected the antagonistic broadside of fame, including his acquisition with a stalker portion hosting Blue Peter from 2005 to 2008.

He erstwhile recalled: ‘It was weird to the constituent wherever I had immoderate security, which I thought was a lot, but they felt… you know, evidently they knew worldly that I didn’t.’

Describing the concern arsenic ‘terrifying,’ helium added: ‘You know, you spell and bash your occupation each time reasoning that’s it and past for immoderate reason…

‘I deliberation it’s absorbing connected telly, the mean of TV is truly almighty and radical deliberation they cognize you truly good and there’s occasions wherever you possibly don’t get backmost to idiosyncratic due to the fact that you conscionable don’t, due to the fact that don’t cognize them and they find that offensive.’

Right now, however, Gethin has 1 extremity successful caput and it’s not wooing sceptical strangers connected Hinge.

He precocious revealed that helium and co-star Helen Skelton volition beryllium undertaking a 24-hour rollerskating situation successful assistance of comic alleviation which helium said has ‘never felt much important.’

And past period helium opened up astir his precocious cholesterin diagnosis.

‘We cognize it tin origin bosom illness successful the aboriginal and strokes arsenic well.

‘It’s thing you’ve truly got to instrumentality seriously. I conscionable had truthful galore questions! I felt truly uneducated,’ helium said astatine the clip arsenic helium explored what measures helium could instrumentality for a steadfast lifestyle.

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