Joel Dommett met his new girlfriend on Instagram
He said previous experience of being duped online did not deter him.
I’m A Celebrity star Joel Dommett has said he met his new girlfriend on Instagram after she sent him a cat emoji.
The comedian and reality star admitted he was cautious about meeting someone online after he was tricked into making a sex tape.
However, that did not stop him from meeting his new partner, model Hannah Cooper, on the social media platform.
“That is the modern equivalent of the old phrase ‘you had me at hello’, now it’s ‘you had me at cat emoji’.”
Asked if he was suspicious about online overtures, he said: “Not suspicious enough to not meet my new girlfriend on Instagram apparently.
“It’s mad how many people get in touch with me and go ‘this happened to me too, they bribed me for loads of money’ and it’s really happening a lot so if I can give a little bit of awareness and if it happens to someone at school and they go ‘maybe this person is not real and too good to be true’, then they won’t .”
He also gushed about his new relationship, saying: “It’s so wonderful, we are so happy. She’s very beautiful, I’m a very lucky lad.
“She is in New York at the moment and so we just kind of find those moments where we both go ‘I’m free then are you free then? We are free then, go go go!’
Dommett added he is currently writing a book after finding his teenage diaries, in which he wrote he did not want to have sex with more than 40 people.
“I think that’s kind of an ok number, I don’t think it’s too high and I don’t think it’s too small.”
