If you ever wanted to date a celebrity, your big break is finally here — as long as you’re willing to settle for a lookalike. Badoo, a dating app, has added a new feature that allows users to search for matches who resemble their celebrity crush.
Badoo founder Andrey Andreev came up with the idea while cracking down on fake dating profiles. The company’s team used facial recognition technology to weed out profiles with pictures downloaded from the Internet. Now the app is using that technology to match profiles with their celebrity doppelgangers. Or you can upload a photo of your own and find lookalikes of that ex you’re still hung up on.
According to dating coach Meredith Golden, that shouldn’t be a problem because we can trust people to make emotionally healthy decisions. Via the New York Post:
“Past relationships are usually mired in emotion and there’s typically a good reason why the relationship is over,” she said. “Most healthy people would prefer to leave the history of the ex in the past.”
Hopefully users stick to celebrity searches. Here are the most popular celebrities so far, according to the New York Post:
| Female celebrities | Male celebrities | |
| 1 | Kim Kardashian | Barack Obama |
| 2 | Beyonce | Kevin Durant |
| 3 | Selena Gomez | Chris Evans |
| 4 | Kylie Jenner | Chris Pratt |
| 5 | Emma Stone | Justin Bieber |
| 6 | Jennifer Lawrence | Tiger Woods |
| 7 | Kendall Jenner | Michael Phelps |
| 8 | Serena Williams | Anwar Hadid |
| 9 | Ariana Grande | Jake Gyllenhall |
| 10 | Simone Biles | Donald Trump |
Amazingly, this arguably isn’t even the weirdest dating app news of the day. We also learned about a new service that’s exclusive to verified Twitter users.
Sure is creepy. But if it somehow leads to true love, you can’t complain.
