‘Desperate Housewives’ Star Teri Hatcher Was Kicked Off Hinge Dating App

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | February 1, 2024 |

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | February 1, 2024 |

Former star of Desperate Housewives, Teri Hatcher, was not only desperate enough to join the dating app Hinge—arguably the worst dating app, because you’re only allowed to match with, like, two people per month or something and sometimes you have to give “roses” to people they pick for you but those people are always the ugliest and have voice notes about their favorite color in their profile—but she went as far as paying for a premium subscription to the app. I promise you, and I speak from years of sad, lonely experience, no one is paying to use these apps. This is the first I’ve learned of that even being an option. You pay for eHarmony and Match and maybe FarmersOnly, not Hinge. Did no one tell her about Raya? (Actually, I guess someone did, but she seems to believe “those guys only want to date 30-year-olds.” Are the guys on Hinge really so much better? I doubt it.)

But that’s not even the worst part. She paid for Hinge, and then Hinge kicked her off because they thought she was a catfish.

“I tried Hinge. I thought, you know, I’m gonna say to the universe that I am open and vulnerable and I’m putting myself out there,” Hatcher said on a recent episode of the Getting Grilled with Curtis Stone podcast. “That’s what I thought my gesture of joining the Hinge app would be, and then they kicked me off.”

Gesture? This is proof that most celebrities should not be allowed on podcasts.

She said she contacted the Hinge powers that be to “get a refund on her subscription” (oh my god), and they told her they assumed it was a fraudulent account “pretending to be Teri Hatcher.”

“I complained. I was like, ‘Can I have my money back? You can kick me off.’ Anyway, they apologized,” she said. But she decided she was done with dating apps and would prefer a real-life meet-cute, though that has proved difficult since she says, “I don’t meet people. I don’t meet anyone. If you come up with someone, let me know.” Yeah, help a sister out, Curtis Stone!

But don’t worry, she’s “happy,” has a “really full” and “really busy” life, “beautiful friends,” and “a cat.” Ditto, girl. Well, minus the cat.