BBC presenter and TV character Gethin Jones has claimed he was once banned from courting app Hinge after 300 ladies reported him, pondering he was once catfishing.
Jones published at the podcast Stressed Natives he was once “kicked off” the platform two times for “violating the code of behavior”.
“I will have to know higher not to examine my account,” he mentioned.
Hinge has been requested to remark.
It’s simple to replicate somebody’s photos and arrange a faux on-line account – a phenomenon referred to as catfishing. However on this case, it was once the actual deal.
Gethin Jones first got here to the general public’s consideration as a presenter for Blue Peter, went directly to host The One Display, This Morning and is now a presenter on Morning Reside.
He has additionally seemed as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing.
He advised Stressed Natives hosts Martin Compston and Gordon Sensible on Wednesday: “The instant when I’ve to put in writing to Hinge, ‘Expensive Hinge’ on a Thursday evening, by yourself, writing to a web based courting app. ‘Hello it is Gethin right here, 46. I simply wish to get my a reimbursement as a result of it isn’t in reality running for me,’ consuming some cereal as a result of I hadn’t were given some meals in.
“That was once when I used to be like ‘what am I doing with my lifestyles’.”
The hosts instructed he check out Raya, an app aimed particularly at celebrities which calls for customers to use to a committee earlier than being permitted.
On its website online, Hinge mentioned if a consumer was once banned then “we now have detected job related along with your account that violated our Phrases of Provider”.
“We take violations of our insurance policies very critically,” it added.
Its coverage mentioned customers should now not “misrepresent your identification, age, present or earlier positions, {qualifications}, or affiliations with an individual or entity”.
Jones was once in the past in a dating with Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins after the pair met on Strictly Come Dancing in 2007, however the couple cut up in 2011.
