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Garcelle Beauvais Reveals She Accidentally Spent $6,000 on a Dating App: ‘I Didn’t Even Meet 1 Guy’
By Paige Strout,
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Celebrities are just like Us — even they lose count of their subscriptions.
While exclusively chatting with Us Weekly about her new film, Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted by Love , Garcelle Beauvais revealed she once unknowingly spent thousands of dollars on a dating app.
“I went on this site, and it was, like, $399 a week. And I had promised a friend of mine that I would try it, so I signed up,” the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 57, explained. “And then, I was like, ‘It doesn't feel right to be paying to meet a guy.’ You know what I mean? And so, I got off the site — [or] I thought I did.”
Several months later, Beauvais said her son discovered she had spent $6,000 in total on her app subscription without realizing it. “He was like, ‘Why do you have a dating app that you’re paying for, Mom?’ And I’m like, ‘What?’” she shared. “Disaster. I didn’t even meet one guy.”
Beauvais shares her eldest son Oliver, 32, with her ex-husband Daniel Saunders and twins Jax and Jaid, 16, with her ex-husband Michael Nilon . The Bravolebrity has been connected to several famous names over the years, including Eddie Murphy , Michael Jordan and Will Smith . Her most recent public relationship was with film producer Michael Elliot . The pair split in February 2020 , two months after they made their romance public.
Beauvais told Us that she hasn’t been on a good date in “a long time,” but is “waiting” for the right person to come along. “I think right now is a good time. My kids are going to be going off to college and it's like, ‘Well, what about me?’” she shared. “Figuring out that part when I'm not a mom, when I'm not into my career — not that I'm not into my career. When I'm not a mom and when I'm not focusing on my career, I think it's time.”
When it comes to what she’s looking for in a relationship, Beauvais said marriage is “not at all” important to her. However, she does have one requirement for potential suitors.
Garcelle Beauvais. Rich Polk/NBC
“[I don’t want] a guy with little kids,” she quipped. “I’m not packing any more snacks. I’ve made [enough] peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for a lifetime.”
Beauvais went on to note that she is open to dating someone younger than her, an idea her character, Ava, struggles with in the new Lifetime movie Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted by Love .
“It was always a thing that I wasn't really interested [in]. I wasn't sure. But now, doing this movie, I feel like it's a person-specific [thing],” she told Us . “If someone comes into my life and they check all the other boxes that I'm looking for and they happen to be younger, I'm open to it now. I wasn't before, but now I am.”
The film follows her character as she returns to her South Carolina hometown to take care of her elderly aunt ( Donna Biscoe ), only to form a connection with the driver who picks her up at the airport, Luke ( Vaughn W. Hebron ), who is 20 years her junior.
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“It's all about being open. Find love where you can get it. I'm not saying that means you need to run out and find a young guy all the time, but I think it's being open to the idea of being loved, being lovable so that someone loves you,” Beauvais — who also serves as an executive producer — said of the film.
Praising her costar Hebron, 33, she added: “We wanted to find someone who was young enough but man enough so you would believe that she would fall for him. And I think the connection was there and what he was going through and it just made sense.”
Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted by Love premieres on Lifetime Saturday, August 17, at 8 p.m. ET.
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