Celebrities Who Slid Into One other Star’s DMs (and How It Turned Out)

Bobby Flay and Kristin Cavallari

Kristin Cavallari welcomed Bobby Flay to a latest episode of her podcast Let’s Be Sincere, the place the Laguna Seaside alum requested the chef if he would ever — or if he had ever — slide into DMs.

“I’ve however by no means in a manner that might be like … really, I need to discuss to you about this,” Flay mentioned.“You and I had a state of affairs the place I used to be coming to Nashville for actually at some point for a gathering and I used to be like, ‘Who do I do know in Nashville?’” 

“I DMed you and I mentioned to you — now, I do know what phrases I used particularly since you jogged my memory — ‘I’m going to be in Nashville for one night time, can I take you to dinner?’ And also you actually mentioned one thing to me like, ‘I’m already relationship any person,’” he continued with amusing.

“Or it was like, ‘I’m over relationship proper now,’” Cavallari added.

“No you mentioned, ‘I actually began seeing any person!’” Flay mentioned. “And I mentioned, ‘I simply need to go to dinner with you.’”

“It was like foot in mouth,” Cavallari remembered, sharing that they did find yourself going to dinner and “had the perfect time.”

Flay cut up from author Christina Pérez in June whereas Cavallari and TikToker​​ Mark Estes broke up in September after seven months of relationship.

Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens

Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens first met by the relationship app Raya in 2020 with the Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast making the primary transfer.

“He would say I slid into his DMs,” she advised the Wall Avenue Journal. “I noticed him and I used to be like, ‘Oh, he is fairly cute,’ so I mentioned hello … after which I noticed that he was within the Houston space, so we began chatting a bit of bit, after which we went to hang around per week or two later.”

In 2022 the pair bought engaged and in 2023 they had been married.

Lizzo and Chris Evans

Again in 2021, Lizzo revealed that she had drunkenly messaged Chris Evans on Instagram.

“Do not drink and DM, youngsters…. for authorized porpoises this can be a joke,” she wrote within the caption of a video shared to TikTok. The screenshot confirmed that she despatched the emojis for dashing away, a lady enjoying handball and a basketball to The Avengers star.

Lizzo later up to date followers sharing that Evans did in actual fact reply, writing,  “No disgrace in a drunk DM,” with a kissing face emoji. “God is aware of I’ve achieved worse on this app lol.”

Their hilarious alternate did not result in love, nevertheless: Lizzo confirmed her romance with Myke Wright and Evans tied the knot with Alba Baptista in 2023.

Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin

After first assembly at a celebration in 2017, Dylan Sprouse thought it was time to shoot his shot with the mannequin.

“She adopted me, so I used to be like, I suppose I am going to give her one thing. And I slid into her DMs,” the Suite Lifetime of Zack & Cody alum advised W Journal in 2019. “I used to be like, ‘Hey, I do not know for those who’re in New York for very lengthy, however we must always hang around if you wish to. This is my quantity.’ And she or he did not message me for six months.”

Palvin ultimately did reply; issues went nicely sufficient that she flew to fulfill Sprouse in China, the place he was working, and by June 2018 they had been formally relationship.

In 2023, the 2 introduced their engagement and shortly after they tied the knot.

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner

Earlier than the 2 lastly met in particular person, Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner had mutual associates who had been attempting to get them to fulfill. After following one another on Instagram in 2016, Jonas slid into Turner’s DMs “one fantastic day, out of the blue,” she shared.

In 2017, the 2 introduced their engagement and in 2019 wed in Las Vegas earlier than celebrating their marriage once more in Paris a couple of weeks later. The 2 went on to welcome two daughters collectively, however in Sept. 2023 Jonas filed for divorce.

Holland Taylor and Sarah Paulson

Holland Taylor and Sarah Paulson first met a decade previous to reconnecting on social media in 2015.

Throughout a January 2019 look on Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen, Paulson mirrored on how their relationship got here to be.

“It is a lengthy story. We met a really, very very long time in the past. I used to be with another person; she was, too,” Paulson recalled on a 2019 episode of Watch What Occurs Dwell . “We kind of breezed by each other, after which began following one another on Twitter, after which …”

Billy Eichner, who was additionally a visitor that episode requested, “Holland Taylor slid into your DMs?”

“She really did,” Paulson mentioned. “Yeah, it is fairly nice.”

Within the years since, the 2 have stepped out collectively on quite a few events: supporting one another’s tasks, attending award exhibits and even dressing up collectively on Halloween.

In a candy birthday tribute to Taylor in 2024, Paulson started by calling her longtime accomplice “my world.”

Ricky Martin and Jwan Yosef

Ricky Martin first observed Jwan Yosef on social media in 2015 by his work as an artist.

“I am scrolling and I see this lovely piece of artwork and I am like, ‘Whoa, how cool! Who’s this?’ Then I begin checking and swiftly I am like, ‘Ooh, ooh,’ ” Martin, who’s an artwork collector, shared on Radio Andy in 2017. “After which I wrote to him.”

The 2 talked for six months, Martin shared, about “artwork and life and normal” — “nothing attractive,” he mentioned. From there, he flew to London, the place Yosef was residing on the time, to fulfill him and the 2 started relationship.

The pair wed in 2018 and later welcomed two kids collectively daughter Lucia, born in 2018, and son Renn, born in 2019. (Martin can be dad to his twin sons Matteo and Valentino, born in 2008.)

In 2023, Martin and Yosef introduced they had been divorcing.

Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra

A number of years earlier than they really began relationship, Nick Jonas reached out to Priyanka Chopra by way of Twitter DM to point his curiosity: “I am listening to from a couple of mutual associates that we must always meet.”

It wasn’t the smoothest first transfer, he recalled to Vogue: “She responded day of with a message that mentioned, ‘My staff can learn this. Why do not you simply textual content me.’ ”

He bought her digits for some much less supervised chatting, however the two did not actually kick issues into excessive gear till 2018 — and from there, they went from relationship to engaged to married inside months and earlier than the brand new yr, had been husband and spouse.

In January 2022 the 2 grew to become mother and father to daughter Malti Marie.

Vanessa Hudgens and Cole Tucker

After assembly on a meditation Zoom, Vanessa Hudgens had a sense Cole Tucker was somebody she’d prefer to know higher — and did not hesitate to inform him so.

“If I would like one thing or somebody, I am going after them,” she mentioned on The Drew Barrymore Present. “I totally simply slid into his DMs and was like, ‘Hey, it was good to fulfill you.’ I believe there isn’t a disgrace in making the primary transfer.”

By the top of 2022 the pair was engaged and in December 2023 tied the knot in Tulum. A couple of months later, Hudgens debuted her child bump on the crimson carpet on the 2024 Oscars and the couple welcomed their first youngster collectively in July.

Winnie Harlow and Kyle Kuzma

Mannequin Winnie Harlow revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Present that boyfriend Kyle Kuzma first reached out to her by way of DM — however that she by no means noticed it.

“I bought a DM a yr prior from my boyfriend, and I by no means seen it,” the mannequin revealed to visitor host tWitch. “I do not know what the glitch within the system with Instagram is, however that by no means got here up for me!”

“A yr later, on the prime of quarantine, he DMed me once more. He posted an image of me in an outfit and I used to be like, ‘Oh, hello!’ … and he shot his shot. He slid into the DMs,” she continued, based on TMZ.

“That was cute, and I used to be like, ‘Oh hey, how’s quarantine been?’ ” The pair started FaceTiming and the remaining was historical past.

Sarah Hyland and Wells Adams

“I used to be following him. We had tweeted one another as a result of I assumed he was humorous and he was a fan of the present,” Sarah Hyland advised Jimmy Kimmel about assembly her now-husband Wells Adams. “I used to be like, ‘That is actually superior. You are being very ahead and it is attractive and never aggressive however very assured and attractive,’ and I preferred that.”

Mandy Moore and Taylor Goldsmith

Mandy Moore can thank Instagram for introducing her to her husband Taylor Goldsmith, frontman for the band Dawes. “I took an image of their album and posted it on Instagram,” the This Is Us actress advised PEOPLE. “By some means, Taylor noticed it and despatched a word to me. We began emailing forwards and backwards, then we went on a date and the remaining is historical past.”

Madelaine Petsch and Travis Mills

Riverdale star Madelaine Petsch first met her now-ex, actor-musician Travis Mills, when he was up for the position of Jughead, however the romance did not take off till they reconnected on-line.

“He messaged me on Fb in January of season one and congratulated me on the present. He had auditioned for Jughead,” she advised Cosmopolitan in 2017. “I believe we simply randomly had mutual associates, so we added one another.”

“We saved in contact very hardly ever, not even that a lot, from January to February, after which the day I bought again from season one in February I used to be bored in L.A., imagine it or not,” she continued. “I used to be like, ‘What am I gonna do?’ I bought my hair minimize and he texted me like, ‘Let’s go to a film!’ We frolicked.”

The pair cut up after three years collectively in February 2020.

Demi Lovato and Emily Hampshire

Schitt’s Creek star Emily Hampshire appeared on Demi Lovato‘s podcast, 4D with Demi Lovato, and mirrored on the “humorous” story of how they first met.

“You slid in my DMs and also you mentioned, ‘Hey lady, I such as you on the present. We must always kick it someday,'” Hampshire recalled. “And you then mentioned beneath it, ‘And by kick it, I imply go on a date. I discover you engaging.’ You made it clear it was a date. And I beloved that as a result of I used to be like, ‘Typically that is complicated’ … I am many years older than you, so ‘kick it,’ I used to be trying it up.”

“You additionally mentioned that!” mentioned Lovato. “You had been like, ‘I am many years older, I do not suppose we’ll discover the identical issues humorous.’ I used to be like, ‘Mm excuse you’ and I despatched you a extremely good meme.”

Though Lovato’s transfer did not finish in a romantic relationship between the celebrities, they had been in a position to type a friendship out of it.