Taye Diggs and Apryl Jones have quickly become a fresh, favorite couple for people since they went public with their relationship in 2022. But have you ever wondered how the 36-year-old former Love and Hip Hop personality and the 52-year-old beloved actor and former musical theater student found their way to each other?
Well, the answer is Instagram.
The pair were recently guests on actors and married couple Erinn and Oliver Hudson’s podcast Unconsciously Coupled. While there, they chatted with their friends about how their relationship started.
“We met on Instagram, not on purpose,” Diggs said, admitting that he used to scroll through the accounts of gorgeous women like Jones through the Explore page. “When I was single I was one of those people that would just scroll through like, ‘Oh my God look at…I could never…” he said. “It was just like, ‘These people are out there? Who are these people?’ It was like a love-hate thing because I hated them because they looked so perfect. You can’t be real. But then it was just something to look at.”
He continued, “Every once in a while I would hit someone’s profile,” sharing that one day he found himself on Jones’s page where she was doing comical lip sync videos making fun of motherhood. “I literally just said, ‘You’re hilarious.’ Didn’t think she’d give a response because I thought she was [way out of my league],” he said. He didn’t think she was the kind of girl who would be into a guy like him. Nevertheless, she ended up responding.
“I looked at my DM and I was like, ‘Taye Diggs?’ What the?” she said. “In my mind I was like, I could never get him. That’s what I was thinking. So then I saw [his message] and I said, ‘He’s mine now.’”
She hit Diggs, who had become known for being quite funny on…
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