A dating website, Beautiful People, has banned over over 5000 members because they apparently gained too much weight over the holidays.
The website has about 500,000 members, all of whom have to go through a ridiculous sign up process. In order to be given access to the website they must be voted by other members on whether they are beautiful or not.
But the site has now changed the approval process by making members of the opposite sex only able to vote on each other, apparently a lot of women were voting other women out so they could cut down on the competition.
Robert Hintze, who founded the website, said “As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand the high standard of beauty be upheld, Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.”
Gred Hodge, the managing director of the website says, “We were getting a lot of complaints from members who were meeting with people who gained a lot of weight or who gained weight in their photo albums.”
It really shows the state of the world when a dating site kicks members off for gaining weight over the holidays, if I had been on that site and kicked off I would sue the hell out of them (I swear I’m not bitter… I didn’t even try to sign up and get denied!).
source: Beautiful People Dating Site Cleanses Itself of ‘Fatties’ [Lemon Drop]
If you find yourself surfing the personals section on Craigslist and see an ad saying “29 year old, blonde, I used to be really famous. Have had my heart broken by every man I’ve dated, oh and I think tuna is chicken. If you’re interested then send me an email.” Be careful because you could be replying to Jessica Simpson.
Or you may not, when she was asked what her thoughts on online dating are and if she would try it herself, she laughed of the idea and said…
“Online dating?! Ha! I have to say I’ve never tried finding love online, I mean, anybody who can find love online, so be it.”
But she then went on to say “Maybe. Who knows?” So start making your eharmony, match.com, okcupid, craigslist profiles and get looking for that 29-year-old because it may or may not be Jessica Simpson.
At this point she should just try it, she hasn’t exactly been successful in the celebrity pool has she?
source: Jessica Simpson Is Open to Online Dating [People]
The actress shot this eHarmony spoof video for funnyordie.com, in it she references her recent split with Samantha Ronson and of course her DUI arrests.
The video opens with “Hi, My name is Lindsay and I’m searching for love. I’m recently single… I think. And I’m looking for someone who I can spend the rest of my life with, or at least someone I can spend the rest of my probation with.â€
I find this pretty funny – more of this this Lindsay Lohan please, oh and in my opinion she did a far better job than Paris Hilton‘s spoof videos.
Chace Crawford from the CW’s Gossip Girl has been hired as a model for an online dating website, WooMe.com, the only problem is … he had no idea.
“Find guys and girls near you,” an ad for WooMe.com says, next to a photo of the “Gossip Girl” star.
According to Crawford’s rep Evelyn Karamanos, the company never asked for permission to use the 23-year-old’s mug.
“They had no right to use his name or photo,” she told the Daily News on Tuesday, adding, “He is not the spokesperson.”
Karamanos has asked the site to remove her client’s photo from the ad immediately.
Crawford’s role as sensitive rich kid Nate Archibald on the hit CW series catapulted him to fame last year.
The actor dabbled in modeling before his big break, but Karamanos said she has “no idea” where the photo, which appears to be recent, came from.
Alas, Crawford’s unwitting venture into the world of online dating was simply a case of mistaken identity, according to Steven Sesar, vice-president of marketing for WooMe.
“We used a picture that had been uploaded to our site by one of our users, which we mistook for a real user,” he said. “Upon notification that the image was not a real user but a known celebrity, we immediately pulled the ad in question and deactivated the user’s profile that contained the fake image.”
“We used a picture that had been uploaded to our site by one of our users, which we mistook for a real user,” he said. “Upon notification that the image was not a real user but a known celebrity, we immediately pulled the ad in question and deactivated the user’s profile that contained the fake image.”
