Single priest who’s on Hinge reveals which photos she actually shares on the dating app
A vicar has shared what it is like for her to use dating apps to try and find her future partner.
Reverend Pippa White, 31, is a Church of England vicar who is looking for love, and decided to get onto dating app Hinge to help her find it, sharing what it's like on This Morning.
You're probably wondering what a person of the cloth is doing on a dating app in the first, and whether that's even allowed. Well, the short answer to that is yes, vicars in the Church of England were first allowed to marry by the Clergy Marriage Act 1548.
It's Catholic priests for whom marriage is very much not allowed, and even for them that wasn't always the case, though you'd have to go back a very long way.
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But for C of E vicars like Reverend White, who has become known as the 'TikTok Vicar' on social media, marriage is very much an option, assuming she can, in her own words, 'find the fella' of course, and she explained that using dating apps makes that a little easier where she lives.
"I live in Shropshire, that is quite a static population," she told This Morning. "People don't really move out, people don't really move in."
She added: "Also quite an old population. Trying to find young people in the countryside can be quite hard. So going on Hinge just made it so much easier."
Of course, another big thing is how people react when she reveals to them that she is a vicar, as Rev White said that she doesn't have pictures of herself in her dog collar on her profile.
"I don't have any photos of me in a dog collar, I don't actually explicitly put that I am a vicar on my profile, because sometimes you can kind of get wrong 'uns, and you want to kind of swerve them," she explained.
Nonetheless, she does leave some 'clues' about her job in her bio.
"You know there's that bit you can put your workplace?" she asked, to which the host bluntly responded "I don't, no", prompting Rev White to burst out laughing.
"There's this bit where you can put your workplace," she explained, "and I just put 'Church of England', and then you can put your religion, so I put christian, so I'm trying to sort of give the hint that I am quite a serious christian and it is a big part of my life, and you know, it's my work."
As for how the men she meets react, she said it can go different ways.
"Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it opens this deluge of questions, and it feels like you're kind of being interrogated," she said.
She then went on to recall how a date that she had recently had had gone, saying: "We went for a dog walk, and he was like, so what do you do for work then, and I was like, oh, here it comes, and I was like 'oh yeah, I'm a vicar'.
"And there was this heartbeat of silence, and he was like 'oh okay then!' and then the date carried on."
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Kit Roberts