Celebrities Who Have Used the Dating App Raya to Try and Find Love: Liza Koshy, Channing Tatum, Kiernan Shipka and More

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Celebrities Who Have Used the Dating App Raya to Try and Find Love: Liza Koshy, Channing Tatum, Kiernan Shipka and More

Love for the modern age. Celebrities are just like Us, they turn to dating apps to find romance and start relationships. Stars including Eric Stonestreet and Chelsea Handler have been open about their use of dating apps, such as Tinder and Bumble, but even more famous folks have opted to use Raya. Raya launched in 2015 and prides itself on being “an exclusive dating and networking platform for people in creative industries.” Demi Lovato has been a longtime user of online relationship sites. She revealed in her documentary,Simply Complicated, that she chose Raya after her split from Wilmer Valderrama in 2016. Since then, she’s used the app when she’s single, but in 2020 she tried to rejoin after deleting her profile and she was shut down. “I just deleted it out of respect to the person I was with, then we broke up and I went to get back on [I couldn’t],” the former Disney Channel star told Harper’s Bazaar in its April 2020 issue. “And I was like, ‘You know what? It’s fine. I don’t need to be on this because I think I’m supposed to be alone right now.’” Channing Tatum joined the dating app following his split from Jessie J in November 2019, a source told Us Weekly exclusively. [jwplayer 5w9D2rUq-zhNYySv2] According to the insider, the Magic Mike actor’s profile as of December 2019 read, “And yes, I used to be a stripper.” The source added that his profile song was “Brown Sugar” by D’Angelo. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star, Kiernan Shipka, explained that even though she rarely has time to date, she is a big fan of Raya. “Meeting people has always been kind of a funny situation for me, growing up not going to school, but knowing everyone who went to the schools in LA. It’s good, I’ve found ways,” Shipka told Stylist in March 2019 of her dating prowess. The Illinois native added that “of course” she’s used online dating before giving the celebrity romance app a shout-out. “Raya for life. Love it. God bless Raya,” Shipka said. Scroll below to see which stars have used Raya in the past, or are currently on the dating site. [podcast_block]

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Andy Cohen

During the season 12 RHOBH reunion, the host revealed that he joined Raya — and tried to convince Garcelle Beauvais to get on board.

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Katie Thurston

In July 2022, the former Bachelorette revealed that she joined the dating app after her split from John Hersey. "I thought it was gonna be, like, a long wait list," the Washington native explained in a TikTok video. "My friends told me it takes a long time to get approved, so I was like, 'I'll apply now, and then six months from now I'll start dating.' Well, they approved me right away."

The Bachelor alum admitted that she "wasn't ready" for another romantic relationship so she selected the option saying she was looking for friends. "I matched with someone and we're talking," she told her followers. "And then I get unmatched. Just for friends!" In her caption for the post, she quipped, "I joined Raya and can’t even make a friend."

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Brandi Cyrus

“[I’m] single and ready to mingle! Very single, but you know, very happy,” the DJ exclusively told Us in July 2022. “I'm busy and I don't really have time to date, but I'm open to it if you know, somebody [is] hot, tall, available [and] nice but also [has] bad boy vibes.”

When asked whether she’d go on Raya to find The One, Cyrus confessed, “Oh, my God, it's trash. I'm not saying I'm not on it … but it's trash.”

Despite hinting at having a Raya profile, Cyrus told Us that she’s “nostalgic” and would really “love to meet somebody in person.”

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Emma Hernan

The Selling Sunset star told costar Chrishell Stause on a season 5 episode that Affleck contacted her on the app.

“He may or may not have asked to grab … coffee a few times,” she said, confirming it was before Affleck got back together with Jennifer Lopez in spring 2021. “We have the Boston connection. It was very sweet.”

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Liza Koshy

“I’m saying I’m dating, but that’s a very active verb. Also an active verb is swiping. I’m swiping very hard,” the comedian said during an October 2021 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “These fingers are tired. I’m on the Raya. Find me on there.”

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Meghan King

The Real Housewives of Orange Country alum revealed during an October 2021 interview with Brides that she initially connected with now-husband Cuffe Ownes via a dating app one month prior. Days later, she replied to an Instagram fan that the pair had matched on Raya.

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Olivia Rodrigo

The “Good 4 U” singer revealed in the September 2021 issue of GQ that she tried to find The One on the dating app, but her search was short-lived. “I had Raya for a second, and it was so vomit,” she explained. “Like, I could not.”

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Lena Dunham

In June 2021, the Girls creator revealed she was briefly a member on the dating app. She tweeted, “Let’s have a contest for who lasted the shortest amount of time on Raya. I’ll go first, twenty minutes and one creative director of a watch company long!”

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Simone Biles

The Olympian may have found love with Houston Texas safety Jonathan Owens, but when the couple first matched on Raya, the football player actually didn’t know the girl on the app was the gymnastics GOAT! 

"Her work ethic was really the first thing that caught my eye," Owens said in the third episode of her Simone vs Herself series on Facebook Watch, released in June 2021. "I never really watched gymnastics before I first started talking to her. When I met her, I honestly didn't know who she was. It was just like, 'Oh, she has a lot of followers — she must be pretty good or something.”

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Drew Barrymore

The actress compared Raya to “looking through an Us Weekly” during a September 2020 appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. “I did terribly too. I got stood up, and I didn’t match with anyone. And my friends gave me this sort of bloated sense of false confidence. They were like, ‘You should try it. You will do great.’ It was a car wreck,” she revealed, noting that the person who skipped out on their date owned a restaurant. “But, you know, I love being able to be in the conversation, I have to say. Like, I definitely had fun with it. And I’ve always wanted to go on a blind date, but my life got in the way of that, so I thought, like, online dating might satiate that desire. And no, it was a real wake-up call. But it was fun, and yes, there were lots of exciting people.”

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Chet Hanks

The Empire alum, who is the son of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, was active on the dating app in spring 2020, a source told Us exclusively on April 23.

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Demi Lovato

The “Anyone” singer has joined Raya more than once while single. In her documentary, Simply Complicated, she talked about being on the app after her breakup with Valderrama. In April 2020, she told Harper’s Bazaar that she had deleted the app at one point, while she was in a relationship, but when she tried to get it back, she was rejected.

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Hannah Brown

Despite being the star of The Bachelorette, Brown revealed in February 2020 that she “can’t get on Raya.” She told her Instagram Live viewers that she had been “on the waiting list for months now.”

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Kyle Martino

Two months after announcing his split from his wife, Eva Amurri, Martino was spotted using the dating app, a source told Us exclusively in January 2020. The insider confirmed that the former soccer star is “dating again.”

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Channing Tatum

The Magic Mike star joined the dating app after his split from Jessie J in November 2019, multiple sources told Us in December. The Step Up actor’s profile reads, “And yes, I used to be a stripper,” according to one source.

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Lizzo

The “Truth Hurts” singer told Busy Philipps on Busy Tonight in April 2019 that she joined Raya in hopes of matching with John Mayer, but sadly they didn’t connect.

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Kiernan Shipka

“Of course,” the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star told Stylish in March 2019 about whether or not she’s tried online dating. “Raya for life. Love it. God bless Raya.”

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Niall Horan

In 2018, following his split from Hailee Steinfeld, the Irish crooner was spotted on the celebrity dating app.

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John Mayer

In 2016, a source told Us that the Connecticut native was a member of the dating app. “His profile is a slide show of photos set to a Neil Young song,” the insider said at the time.

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Amy Schumer

The comedian opened up in her book, The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, about her use of Raya, although she didn’t name the app specifically. She recalled signing up for the app with her friend Vanessa Bayer and said that it ultimately led to her relationship with ex-boyfriend Ben Hanisch. He revealed that her profile photo was a photo of herself “wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap with no makeup.” She also posted a photo of Sophia from The Golden Girls and one of herself “smiling and wearing a sweatshirt.”

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Bonnie Wright

The Harry Potter alum was reportedly on the high-profile dating app in 2016, according to Nylon.

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Joe Jonas

Before meeting his wife, Sophie Turner, the Jonas Brothers singer was spotted on the dating app, according to Page Six.

Jonas later confirmed the reports during a June 2022 interview with Vanity Fair, in which he took a lie detector test for their YouTube channel. He quipped: “That rumor is true. I mean, who wasn’t?”

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Lil Nas X

During his March 2023 Carpool Karaoke appearance, the “Old Town Road” performer opened up to James Corden about his experience with online dating.

"I used to use Raya. I think I stopped using Raya … It just like, fell off for me and I just started to meet people in person," he said at the time. "Raya is just very famous, everyone's famous on there. I’ve met quite a few famous guys. I think I've come to know that I don't like dating famous people."