Dating isn’t like it used to be.
Nowadays, we’ve got modern-day tactics, such as swiping left or right on dating profiles or sliding into someone’s DMs. Ah, love.
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Celebs even use these tactics! Couples like Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas started online.
Whether they’re still together or have since broken up, here are 10+ celebrity couples who met online.
1. Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas
This modern-day fairy tale all started with a DM .
Nick sent the Quantico actress a message on Twitter saying, “I’m hearing from a few mutual friends that we should meet.” Priyanka asked for a date and the rest was history.
2. Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor
Their romance began in the unlikeliest of places: on Twitter.
While on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Sarah said that Holland slid into her DMs. Given their 31-year age difference, we would have assumed that it would be the other way around!
3. Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin
This adorable romance came to be thanks to Instagram. After the model followed Dylan, he decided to shoot her a text .
Thing is, though, Palvin wasn’t in the right mindset to reply. This led to a six month pause.
Fate thankfully intervened when Dylan was headed to China for a six-month movie shoot.
When his manager asked whether he had something to finish before leaving, he thought of Barbara and how he wished he could take her on a date. Ten minutes later, she messaged him.
4. Sarah Hyland and Wells Adams
Everything about the Modern Family star’s romance with her fiancé was modern.
“Have you seen those memes of ‘Slide Into the DMs’? That. He slid into my DMs,” Hyland shared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! about the Bachelorette star.
5. Taylor Goldsmith and Mandy Moore
The This Is Us star credits Instagram for the marriage she has with musician Taylor Goldsmith.
After she posted a picture of his band’s album on Instagram, he reached out and they began emailing back and forth before meeting in real life.
6. Brittany Snow and Tyler Stanaland
“We had a bunch of friends in common, and he actually reached out to me on Instagram with a really lame pickup line,” Snow shared with People .
Lame or not, his line worked. The two are now married.
7. Ryan Lochte and Kayla Rae Reid
The Olympic swimmer found his wife on Tinder , of all places.
Despite its track record for being known for hookups, the couple proved naysayers wrong when they got married in 2018 and welcomed two children together!
8. Calvin Harris and Rita Ora
In addition to getting together on Twitter, this couple aired out their breakup on Twitter.
That’s because the DJ refused to give Ora legal permission to perform a song he had written and produced while they were together.
9. Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef
“I’m scrolling and I see this beautiful piece of art and I’m like, ‘Whoa, how cool! Who’s this?'” Martin told Andy Cohen about finding his husband’s art on Instagram.
“Then I start checking and all of a sudden I’m like, ‘Ooh, ooh.’ And then I wrote to him.”
10. Jennette McCurdy and Andre Drummond
They started dating in 2013 after the athlete tweeted at the Sam & Cat star a few times.
“@DRE_DRUMMOND_ I wanna watch you play,” she tweeted before they met in person for the first time. Sadly, they only lasted a few weeks.
11. Madelaine Petsch and Travis Mills
Romance blossomed between the now-ex couple when Mills sent the actress a message online, congratulating her on the success of Riverdale .
“I’m a huge advocate of showing my relationship online because love does exist,” she told Glamou r at the time.
12. Amber Rose and Wiz Khalifa
Everything about the start of this former couple’s relationship was online.
It all began when the rapper said he had a crush on her. “He did an interview about me and the guy who interviewed him asked, ‘If there was one girl in the world who would you be with?'” Rose told Us Weekly .
As a result, Rose reached out to Wiz.
“And then I hit him on twitter, and I said, ‘That’s really cute’ and we fell in love!”
While the couple eventually got married and welcomed a child, they sadly called it quits in the end.
13. Deborah Ann Woll and E.J. Scott
The True Blood star met her match on Match.com. In 2007, she was sifting through profiles when she came across the comic.
They met and fell in love. To this day, they are still together. They got married in 2018.
14. Zara Larsson and Brian Whittaker
The singer shoot her shot in 2015 when she tweeted two pictures of the model.
“Who are you, where do you live, how old are you, why are you so fine, how do you like your eggs cooked in the morning?” she wrote.
This bold move paid off, as Brian soon reached out to her.
If we do the same, will Leonardo DiCaprio message us?!
Soon, the pair were sharing photos of them together online. They were together for three years before they called it quits in 2019.
15. Dua Lipa and Anwar Hadid
In case you didn’t know, Anwar is the younger brother of Gigi and Bella Hadid.
While on Watch What Happens Live in 2020, the singer admitted that she was the one who slid into Anwar’s DMs.
16. Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner
Like his little brother, Nick Jonas, many mutual friends were trying to get these two together for a while.
“We were following each other on Instagram and he direct-messaged me one fine day, out of the blue,” Turner told Harper’s Bazaar .
