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Rebel Wilsonis off the market!
When asked about how she met her new partner, Wilson, 42, told the podcast hosts that a mutual friend had connected them.
“I was on and off on the Raya app, but this was a friend set up,” she explained. “He’d known both of us for at least five years each, and was like, ‘Yeah, I think you two would hit it off,’ and then we did.”
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“I think that escalates things quicker, [meeting someone] from a trusted source,” she added of her newfound romance. “So then you’re like, okay, I can trust this person, that they are legit, they are who they say they are – which is something on the [dating] apps you don’t really know.”
In February 2021, a friend of the actress told PEOPLE Wilsonparted wayswith her ex-boyfriend,Jacob Busch, four months after making their relationship Instagram official.
“Jacob was an amazing guy but just not the one for her long-term,” Wilson’s friend told PEOPLE at the time.
On the same day, the actress also shared a new photo of herself onInstagramin which she referred to herself as a “single girl” while showing off her slim figure in a denim dress and cropped yellow cardigan.
“Lots on my mind…aghhhhhh…#single-girl-heading-to-Super-Bowl!” she wrote in the caption of her post.
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The former couplemade their red carpet debutshortly after when they attended the Monte-Carlo Gala For Planetary Health in Monaco.
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The former couple frequently shared updates of their romance on social media, enjoyingvacations in MexicoandAspen.
In November 2020,Wilson told PEOPLE she spent all of 2019going out on as many datesas possible before meeting Busch.
“Last year was the year of love, that’s why maybe I’m still so obsessed with dating and stuff because I deliberately went out and I dated a lot of different people,” Wilson said. “And I wasn’t very experienced in love and relationships, my movieIsn’t It Romanticwas pretty similar to my real life in that respect. And so I went out and just gave it my all, tried really hard to find love and stuff.”
source: people.com
