Delaney Rowe Reveals How Her Real Relationships Inspire Her Viral Comedy Skits About Romance (Exclusive)

Who's nan existent Delaney Rowe?

In business pinch CeraVe, nan contented creator said pinch PEOPLE exclusively astir nan root of nan memorable characters successful her viral skits, noting that her individual relationships sometimes substance her romanticist tropes.

"Oh my God, of course," she says of whether her real-life experiences ever make their measurement into her skits.

While Rowe, 29, is wide known for her "insufferable female lead" characters, her "highly unrealistic male-female friendship successful each romanticist comedy" is besides among her astir talked astir portrayals connected her page.

"It's truthful funny because nan feline that I do that video with, he is my beloved friend," Rowe says successful reference to her pal Jake Musser. "And truthful it's for illustration sometimes we're like, we are pulling sometimes our small dynamics and mannerisms into nan video."

"And nan comments, whenever I person a man successful my videos, it's like, 'The chemistry! Date already!'" she continues. "I'm like, 'No, we really are conscionable acting and we really conscionable emotion this,' but I deliberation group want it to beryllium real, which is each you want. Of course, that's great!"

Rowe references a caller video she did pinch Musser wherever they spoofed actors connected property tours. "They're truthful flirty and they're truthful intelligibly playing up nan romance, but it's because that ends up helping nan project, truthful it's each this large act," she says.

However, she prefaces location is simply a clear statement betwixt nan Rowe group spot connected their screens and really she really acts successful existent life. In fact, she recalls a unsocial relationship she had pinch a feline connected a first day — that didn't needfully gain him a second.

"I will opportunity I've gone connected a day wherever I had a feline benignant of beryllium like, 'Wait, tin you do that woman correct now?' And I was like, 'Oh, buddy, no,'" she shares, adding, "We're not going connected a day again."

"I'm acting successful these videos and I deliberation group sometimes hide that," she explains. "They spot a normal question and reply of maine and they comment, 'Oh wow, she really is insufferable.' I'm like, that's conscionable an easy joke to make… just, travel on. So I spot that benignant of remark a lot, and it makes maine consciousness like, 'Well, I changeable myself successful nan ft pinch this 1 a small bit.' Of course, that connection is ever going to beryllium associated pinch me, and that's whatever."

"I americium an actor, truthful I don't show nan benignant of 'real Delaney' online very often," she continues. "So group are inevitably going to tie their ain conclusions there, which is portion of maine connected nan internet, but I really don't deliberation that I americium these characters."

She besides likes to support clear boundaries betwixt her master and individual life, noting that she keeps her societal media accounts strictly work-related.

"If you walk capable clip connected nan internet, group will conscionable commencement to extract things without your permission," she explains. "That's conscionable what it looks like. There are things that I've seen astir myself that are hilarious and crazy, and I'm like, 'I ne'er moreover said thing astir that.'"

"But that's conscionable what happens erstwhile you walk a batch of clip doing what I'm doing, building a platform," nan multi-talent explains. "I've been really observant to only beryllium showing nutrient and vino and restaurants that I like. I'm not doing a ton of commentary connected my existent feelings aliases day-to-day life."

She adds, "I find that really a vulnerable statement for maine to walk."

Recently, Rowe — who's risen to fame for her self-produced drama sketches since first uploading them connected societal media successful 2020 — was romantically linked to B.J. Novak, however, neither of nan actors has publically commented connected it.

In summation to utilizing her individual experiences arsenic inspiration down her societal media skits, Rowe revealed that she's besides presently penning a book of essays inspired by her ain existent life. Though, don't expect to get an definitive diary!

"It's a book of nonfiction, drama essays — truthful that has a batch of individual worldly successful it," she teases. "Again, it's shrouded. All nan names are changed, facts are changed."

Ultimately, Rowe admits she's playing nan agelong game.

"I americium truthful happy that I'm astatine nan property that I americium now doing this," she says. "If I were younger, I would astir apt person recklessly opened up much connected nan internet, but I'm gladsome that I haven't."

"I'm conscionable trying to sphere longevity successful this," she adds. "And I deliberation that keeping a large portion of my life private, that is simply a bound that I needed to group successful bid to make judge I person nan stamina to support doing this."

Elsewhere successful nan interview, Rowe revealed that she has officially relocated from California to New York City, which has inspired respective caller skits, including her "West Village Girls" parody successful business pinch CeraVe.

"I unrecorded successful New York now," she shares. "I was successful L.A. for 12 years, and past I had this mislaid twelvemonth of doing nan bi-coastal point — and past I conscionable made a choice, genuinely arsenic caller arsenic astir 4 weeks ago."

"I was like, 'I'm going to unrecorded successful New York, a 100 percent,'" she recalls. "So I gave up nan spot successful L.A."

Since her move, Rowe states that she's been loving being an N.Y.C. girl. "New York is amazing," she says. "It is nan astir nosy metropolis successful nan world. That's besides portion of nan problem because each night, there's conscionable something.... It's truthful fun. It's truthful great. It's truthful social, it's truthful spontaneous that it feels very different from L.A."

That power is clear, and connected afloat show successful nan creator's "West Village Girls" skit that riffed disconnected New York Magazine's recently-published article, "It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl."

For nan bit, Rowe teamed up pinch chap contented creator, Veronika Slowikowska, and CeraVe's caller horned mascot, Sarah V. (a play disconnected nan dermatologist-recommended facial moisturizer brand's tagline, "Goated by nan People").

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The conception pokes nosy astatine nan stereotypical "20-something woman" that hangs successful nan trendy Manhattan neighborhood. They often deterioration "uniforms" (white vessel and light-washed jeans), activity successful nan aforesaid industries (finance, marketing, publicity, tech) and apt person societal media broadside hustles, per nan outlet.

"They person seemingly endless disposable income. They are, by each accepted standards, beautiful. Occasionally, they are brunettes. Whatever their governmental beliefs, their lives look reasonably apolitical," per nan outlet's explanation of a West Village girl.

Rowe, who says she and Slowikowska wrote their book nan time earlier they filmed, had a caput commencement from conception to creation.

"There was conscionable truthful overmuch worldly successful nan existent portion that was conscionable very disposable to satirize," she says. "The Aperol spritz of it all, nan achromatic T-shirt, nan jeans... We wanted it to beryllium a ceremony and a really nosy satire and not astatine each mean-spirited."

"I bent retired successful nan West Village each now and then," says Rowe, who made clear, "I americium decidedly not a West Village girl."