BBC Presenter Banned From Hinge Dating App After 300 Mistaken Catfish Complaints
deadline.comWelsh TV presenter presenter Gethin Jones says he was banned from Hinge after the dating app received more than 300 complaints from people who thought he was catfishing (impersonating someone else online with intent to deceive) on the platform.
The BBC presenter told the Restless Natives podcast hosts Martin Compston and Gordon Smart he was “kicked off” the platform twice for violating its codes of conduct.
Jones said: “I should know better to not verify my account. “The moment when I have to write to Hinge, ‘Dear Hinge’ on a Thursday night, on your own, writing to an online dating app. ‘Hi it’s Gethin here, 46.
I just want to get my money back because it’s not really working for me,’ eating some cereal because I hadn’t got some food in. “That was when I was like ‘what am I doing with my life’.” BBC News asked Hinge to comment.
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