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Katie Gallagher

Joanne McNally dating new man from celeb app Raya despite previous ban

Joanne McNally revealed she is dating an Irish man she met on celebrity matchmaking app Raya.

It comes after the popular podcast host admitted she had been blocked from the exclusive app after she was caught screenshotting famous faces that popped up.

But it seems she made her way back, as she opened up on her lovelife this weekend.

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"I'm actually seeing someone...I met an Irish guy on Raya, he’s sound and we’re like, dating or whatever,” she told her 254,000 followers on Instagram.

The stand-up comedian joked she was going to block him from her story so he wouldn't see her confession, adding: "I don’t want him to know I'm acknowledging we're dating. Because, you know, embarrassing."

The funny woman previously told Ryan Tubridy about her failed attempt on the dating app when she first joined, during an appearance on Late Late Show last year.

"I love talking about dating... because I'm single and unfertilised so it's basically one of my favourite things to do!" the comedian explained during the chat in September.

"They're like, 'What are your hobbies?'; 'Dating - apps and stuff'. Me and the girls love chatting about it - and I'm on all of them."

But lifting the lid on how she got the boot from the special celebrity version, the Dubliner went on: "Raya is the celebrity one, which I wangled my way onto," she recounted.

"I broke in, basically. I shouldn't have been on there at all. Like, there's proper celebrities on it, and then there's people like me. I'm there going, 'How did you get on?', and he's going, 'How did you get on?'.

"I had to leave - I can't compete with these people. I'm going to go back to Tinder with my 2006 Electric Picnic photos."

"I did leave but not through choice," McNally went on to admit.

"Because there's all these celebrities on Raya, and because I was just a pleb on Raya - completely excited to see these celebrities… I was screen-grabbing the photos of the celebrities and sending them to the girls. Obviously. What else are you doing to do on there?

“It's not as if they're going to date me. I might as well just screen-grab their photos and get a bit of craic out of it.

"Anyway, I screen-grabbed Lewis Hamilton and then this alarm starts coming up, basically going, 'You've just identified yourself as a pleb because you're screen-grabbing the celebrities. You don't belong here - get out!'

"They obviously have a system set up, you know? There's some software where they can tell that you've screen-grabbed.

The comic, 39, joked: “But I was like, 'It's not AA! Who cares if he's on it?!' Do you know what I mean? It's not like he's in witness protection!”

"Anyway, I'm not on Raya anymore. But it wasn't for me, it wasn't for me!"

But it appears she and the app bosses have changed their minds since, as she has gone on to find a match through the app.

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