Meet Tinder’s ‘most swiped correct man’ who has yet “found love” aft NINE YEARS connected nan app and 48,000 likes — but says his “dream female was offline nan full time”.
Stefan-Pierre Tomlin, 34, first downloaded nan making love app successful June 2015 aft “struggling to find love”.
But 2 years later, he “became an addict” — averaging complete 3 hours a time swiping done imaginable matches.
He yet earned nan title ‘Mr Tinder’ successful 2017, erstwhile it was revealed that much users — 14,600 to beryllium nonstop — had swiped correct connected him than anyone else.
Despite hordes of imaginable suitors, nan antheral exemplary “never recovered love” connected immoderate consequent dates — and said he overmuch prefers to find nan 1 nan old-fashioned way, successful person.
Tomlin, who is besides a trained pilot, has been unfastened astir his erstwhile relationships, which “have ne'er worked out”.
But now admits he’s been “left love-struck” aft a ‘mates’ night-out to a barroom successful Soho, London, successful October 2024, led him to person “found Ms Right” successful finance manager, Vicky Batsford, 43, who took his “breath away”.
The meet-cue was “unexpected”, but 9 months on, nan brace person go charismatic and are “smitten pinch each other”.
Tomlin, who owns a match-making company, Celebrity Love Coach, from Greenwich, London, said: “I swiped correct connected her successful existent life.
“She stole my attraction consecutive distant and everything was easy and earthy pinch her.
“At 1 point, I was getting 40 matches a time connected Tinder and had to shut up nan app.
“Since then, online making love has ne'er really worked for me.
“Meeting Vicky, I knew things would beryllium different.
“She’s organised, humble, and saw maine beyond nan Mr Tinder facade.
“She’s nan cleanable female for maine and I’m wholly off-limits now.”
Tomlin was connected a “spontaneous nighttime out” pinch friends erstwhile he first bumped into Batsford successful October 2024.
It came pursuing a nine-year stint on Tinder that saw him person complete 48,000 imaginable “suitors to take from”, he claims.
“She was wearing a fitted achromatic dress and looked ace fun,” he said.
“We made oculus interaction and some smiled while crossing paths.
“I knew I had to talk to her and we exchanged numbers that night.
“We quickly became friends and things lifted disconnected from there.”
Tomlin said Batsford had “no idea” he was ‘Mr Tinder’ erstwhile they first met.
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It was only later that week, aft googling his name, she became alert and was rather “intimidated”.
“At first, it was a monolithic oculus roll,” Batsford, from Essex, said.
“But I didn’t deliberation thing of it astatine first, arsenic we were conscionable friends.
“I did inquire if he was a s**g, which we laughed about.
“But aft a fewer much drinks complete nan pursuing weeks, we chatted much and I recovered him incredibly interesting.
“He soon swooned maine over.”
Tomlin had utilized Tinder to spell connected complete 15 dates — 4 of which resulted successful relationships during his nine-year spell.
But he “struggled” to meet ‘the one’, admitting that amongst his 40 matches per day, little than 5 per cent would lead to a speech — which only worsened erstwhile he “shot to fame” successful 2017, saying that it led to “inauthentic interactions”.
“My occurrence pinch making love apps plummeted aft I became Mr Tinder,” he said.
“It’s conscionable go a crippled wherever group ‘swipe connected me’ conscionable because of who I am.
“So uncovering emotion nan old-fashioned measurement was what I heavy relied connected and I’m chuffed [pleased] to opportunity it has worked.
“It was astir apt successful my favour that Vicky possibly didn’t cognize who I was disconnected nan bat.”
Although Batsford admitted location were “clear differences” successful who they are, she “couldn’t beryllium happier” to telephone him her boyfriend.
“We travel from very different worlds,” she said.
“I’m measurement much system and disciplined – and he’s a batch much spontaneous.
“But I deliberation that creates a bully equilibrium and a logic why we activity truthful good together.
“We’re ace happy.”
Earlier this month, Tomlin and Batsford became charismatic and they are readying to move successful pinch each different soon.
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Tomlin says “marriage is decidedly successful nan future” pinch Vicky — whom he says “truly feels for illustration nan existent deal”.
Drawing connected his acquisition of nan making love world, Tomlin besides established an online match-making site, Celebrity Love Coach, successful 2021 — to thief others find their different half — and has since group up 52 couples.
“I recovered my emotion and I’ve ever wanted to thief others find theirs,” he said.
“The making love world is ever changing and it’s easy to suffer hope.
“But location is emotion for anyone who is consenting to put themselves extracurricular their comfortableness zone.
“In nan past, I’ve dated models, nurses – and idiots.
“However, things are different now pinch my caller partner and we unrecorded a unchangeable life.
“It’s thing I’ve ne'er had before.
“But I’m consenting to support it for arsenic agelong arsenic I can.”