Chrissy Metz had to “beg” her boyfriend Bradley Collins for his phone number before they started dating.
The 42-year-old actress first met songwriter Bradley, 43, on dating app Bumble in 2020. She admitted that because she had shared so little information about herself on the app, he thought he was being lured by the wrong person, so it took her a month to get his phone number.
She said: “When I swiped him, I was like, ‘Oh my God, he’s so good looking. Is he real?’ And then I guess the funny thing is he thought he was being catfished because I didn’t put much in my bio. And we know there’s a show called ‘Catfish,’ so we know it’s real, which is scary! But I didn’t put much in my bio for that reason because I thought someone would actually engage in a conversation if they were interested and not for the wrong reasons. I basically had to beg him to ask for my phone numbers. We talked for a month. I said, ‘It’s been three hours, don’t you want to know if you want to talk on my phone?'”
The “This Is Us” star added that they arranged their first date at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when social distancing guidelines were still in effect, but because it was raining, they spent their first meeting “yelling at each other” at opposite ends of his living room.
Speaking on the ‘Kelly Clarkson Show’, she said: “We were going to have a little picnic and it was raining and I thought it was good luck, but we didn’t go to the park. He’s such a gentleman. So I said, ‘Well, we can social distance in your house!’ So he unlocked the door, I went in and he just went to the couch. And I said, ‘We’ll just call each other across the living room!’ It was so romantic, but that was our first date!”