"Why not?": Jackie O drops huge dating news
Jackie O has announced that she’s opening herself up to the possibility of a good match, wading into the wild world of online dating with matchmaking service Hinge.
The update into her romantic life came during The Kyle & Jackie O Show, when she informed friend and co-host Kyle Sandilands and their newsreader Brooklyn Ross that she had been chatting to some potential matches the night before.
“I’m going to do it,” she informed them of her decision to sign up for the app, “because why not?”
She went on to explain that she isn’t able to go out all the time, and that she has no desire to, anyway. As she told Kyle and Brooklyn, this was the easier way to meet a new partner, and that she only wanted to have some fun, and just “to go out on a date here and there.”
Kyle wanted to know how her matches dealt with the fact she was something of a public figure, before asking if he could see who she’d connected with.
“You’re not allowed,” she was quick to declare, “because you’re going to scare everybody away. You’ll have a go, and everyone will be like ‘well, I’m not going to like her because I’ll be talked about on the air’.”
Kyle then explained that he’d only asked out of a desire to look out for her, wanting to make sure she avoided being “conned by any ‘f**k boy’” - or, as he explained, someone just like he had once been.
“I’m not necessarily on there for a long-term relationship or anything like that,” Jackie assured him.
But Kyle had a distasteful response in store for her, sharing his belief that that was “a sl**ty thing to say”.
While Jackie brushed off the inappropriate remark, she steered the conversation onto another route, noting that she was only looking to see what options were out there after five years experiencing the single life.
“I’m not like ‘oh my God, I must find the one’. No, I just want to have a little bit of fun and go on a few dates,” she said, before adding that that “doesn’t exactly mean I want Tinder hook-ups, either.
“I just want to go out on a date and see what happens.”
And she had a few firm rules set in place to make sure her experience was a positive one, telling her co-workers that while she isn’t opposed to a casual fling, she won’t “go down on a guy” on the first date, she won’t send any nude pictures, and has her eye on men between the ages of 35 and 55.
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