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Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Scheana Shay names best Hollywood hookups as she hints at tryst with an A-lister
Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Shay has laid bare many of her Hollywood hookups but played coy as she hinted at a tryst with a legitimate A-lister. The 40-year-old reality star - who recently revealed her husband cheated on her while pregnant - revealed her 'best' celebrity lover and discussed her other romantic rendezvous with people of stature. Scheana appeared on podcast Not Skinny But Not Fat released on Tuesday where she discussed her bombshell list of Hollywood hookups from her memoir My Good Side which hit bookstores last month. At the time she released an impressive list of names including John Mayer, Jesse Metcalfe, Jesse McCartney, JC Chasez, Shane West, Adrian Grenier, William Tell, Ricardo Chavira, Josh Hopkins, and of course Eddie Cibrian in addition to unnamed NFL, NBA, and MLB players. However, she did not identify some A-listers who she 'left out' of the hookup list including 'two actors from The Notebook.' As Ryan Gosling was the lead actor in the classic 2004 romance film, podcast host Amanda Hirsch pointed out the 44-year-old Oscar nominee had starred in the film and Scheana coyly answered that she was 'not confirming or denying.' Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Shay (pictured in New York last month) has laid bare many of her Hollywood hookups but played coy as she hinted at a tryst with a legitimate A-lister Other The Notebook castmembers included James Marsden, Kevin Connolly, Sam Shepard, David Thornton, Ed Grady, and Obba Babatunde. Scheana went on to joke: 'Maybe there's another book one day.' Ryan has been in a relationship with fellow actress Eva Mendes since they worked together on the film Place Beyond The Pines in 2011 as they share two children together. He had previously dated A-listers Blake Lively, Sandra Bullock, and Rachel McAdams. Podcast host Amanda also asked Scheana: 'Who was, like, the best hookup?' The Good As Gold hitmaker replied: 'Shemar [Moore].' The multihyphenate also admitted that when enjoying romantic liaisons with stars wasn't 'working out' she started dating guys 'under the radar.' She admitted: 'It [was] time to switch things up. … I didn't want any of the fanfare or complications that came with being linked to someone famous. I wanted to be with someone who was grounded.' As Ryan Gosling (pictured April 2024) was the lead actor in the classic 2004 romance film, podcast host Amanda Hirsch pointed out the 44-year-old Oscar nominee had starred in the film and Scheana coyly answered that she was 'not confirming or denying' This came weeks after Scheana had revealed her husband Brock Davies cheated on her while pregnant with their daughter, Summer, who they welcomed in April 2021. In an excerpt from her aforementioned book, My Good Side, the Vanderpump Rules star recalled the moment she learned her partner was unfaithful. 'I remained in a state of paralyzed shock as he confessed that he'd cheated on me two years prior, when we were living in San Diego during the pandemic, while I was pregnant with Summer,' she wrote. While speaking about her state of mind, at the time, the TV personality explained: 'I had spent so much time fighting off my anxiety and convincing myself that just because Tom [Sandoval] cheated on Ariana [Madix] didn't mean Brock would ever cheat on me. Now, I was finding out just how wrong I was.' 'As I sat there, feeling completely sick to my stomach, he admitted that — at the time — he was scared about being a father again, specifically about whether he even deserved to be, and he chose to deal with it by sleeping with someone else,' she recalled. 'I use the word 'chose' because it was very much a conscious decision. No one twisted his arm or dragged him into bed.' Davies's admission came after her costars Tom Sandoval and Rachel 'Raquel' Leviss' affair was exposed to the world. Shay admitted after his confession she was 'unable to contain my rage' about his 'brief affair' with a woman at his gym in 2021. 'I slapped him and threw a Rubik's cube in his direction, which he dodged,' she wrote. 'To this day, every time I see a Rubik's cube it triggers me, pulling me right back to this incredibly dark moment in my life. Same goes for any mention of an F45 gym,' she wrote. Shay revealed that same night Davies gave her a letter he had written a year after the affair ended. 'He wrote the letter, which included more specifics than I ever wanted, such as how many times they'd slept together, where they'd done it, and where they hadn't (our house),' she added. 'He also pointed out that it was purely physical, never emotional, and he always used protection.' Shay noted she doesn't believe Davies was 'sober when he put pen to paper, so the spelling errors were rampant.' 'I can't explain why, but that really irritated me. Maybe because it felt like another sign of his carelessness,' she said. 'The letter made me remember the weeks leading up to my second trimester when, like many pregnant women, I was sexually stimulated. I'll never forget how, during that time, Brock was 'afraid' to have sex with me (or he simply didn't want to).' At the time, Shay recalled how his brushing off her advances spiked her anxiety and 'killed' her confidence. 'His behavior now made so much more sense. Once I'd read it, that was more than enough. I told him to immediately toss it into the fire. I never wanted to set eyes on those words again,' she explained. Shay also admitted she was paranoid about the gossip that her husband and Leviss were having an affair. 'I knew in my heart that the gossip concerning Brock and Raquel was ridiculously fake... [but] there was the smallest section of my brain that kept thinking: If Tom and Raquel pulled the wool over everyone's eyes for seven months, could Brock and Raquel have done the same thing?' she wondered. Davies broke the news to her as she sat down in front of the TV to watch The Real Housewives of New Jersey. 'Brock said that with all of the fake news being published, he was afraid that something that actually was true might surface, and it was best that I heard it directly from him,' she said. Shay also detailed the lengths that Davies went to, in order to hide the affair. 'I was a little confused because I'd always had his location and could have checked it at any time. How had I not caught them? But he also had a second phone for work, which I did know about but didn't monitor. It turned out that was their sole form of communication. Nice, right?' she scoffed. Despite her agony over his confession, she refrained from screaming because he didn't want to wake their daughter. The couple, who share four-year-old Summer, began dating in 2019 and got engaged two years later. They tied the knot in 2022 in front of Vanderpump Rules cameras for all their fans. She was previously married to music producer Michael Shay from 2014 to 2017.
Forbes
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Why Tinder Is Rebuilding Its Dating App Experience For Gen Z
In this photo illustration, the Tinder logo is seen on a smartphone and PC screen. (Photo ... More Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) For online dating, it once seemed that nothing could quite match the Tinder dating app experience. The app, owned by Match Group, 'revolutionized online dating for millennials.' Known as the place to go for hookups, Tinder popularized the legendary 'swipe' to express interest, or not. Now, the swipe may be swept away. Gen Z, it turns out, is not as into hookups – and less enamored of swiping. Tinder usership has 'flatlined.' In response, Tinder's incoming CEO, Spencer Rascoff, is zeroing in on customer experience or, as it's often called in the app world, user experience. He's bringing in new features, using artificial intelligence, and emphasizing safe dating in an effort to bring back Gen Z. That's as smart as making sure your first date is in a public place. A key component of experience is adaptability, and that can mean knowing your audience and changing with the times. What delights one generation might alienate another; smart companies know better than to treat them the same. In the early part of the 20th Century, for example, virtually all men wore a hat. How many do today? Brands that respect changing tastes and societal norms are more likely to keep users buying their products – and provide them with better experiences that keep them coming back. The difference between customer experience (CX) and user experience (UX) is subtle yet important. User experience is generally defined as the technical side of how people interact with a product – shown by metrics such as success rate and error rate – and their experience from that interaction. It is generally considered a component of overall customer experience, although with digital-only companies it's often one and the same. Customer experience is broader, including all of the interactions customers have with a brand and how likely they are to recommend it to others. For dating apps, user experience also refers to the broader feeling of using the app, in addition to the technical side of how the app itself works. When it debuted in 2012, Tinder was a dating app sensation, reaching a billion matches in two years. Much of that was due to what was considered to be its solid user experience, with a simplicity of design and the straightforward swipe. 'There's something to be learned from the way Tinder's UX elements work together to create a cohesive whole, one reviewer wrote in 2014. 'By reflecting human behavior, presenting the right information, staying simple and trustworthy, and using an addictive gesture, Tinder has become a wildly successful app.' By last year, however, things had changed. An analysis of the user experience of seven online dating services by a UX research firm ranked Tinder last. Users of all sites expressed frustration with dishonest users and dating scams, which appeared to be a particular problem on Tinder. While 19 percent of all dating service users said they had been asked for money by a potential match, that happened most frequently on Tinder (37 percent). Tinder did lead the pack in one metric, however: hookups. Nearly 50 percent of users said they used the app for that reason, compared to eight percent for Match. And that's a significant part of the problem: Experts say Gen Z users are less into hookups and are more skeptical of online dating in general, with some tired of swiping and dealing with ghosting and fake accounts. Some even prefer to – gasp – meet people in person. Match Group last month said it would cut 13 percent of its workforce amid weak demand from younger users. 'This generation of Gen Z, 18 to 28 – it's not a hookup generation. They don't drink as much alcohol, they don't have as much sex,' Rascoff, who is also chief executive of Match Group, told investors last month. 'We need to adapt our products to accept that reality.' His solution: a move away from hookup culture through better user experience. That means increased use of AI, more focus on safety, and innovative new products. For example, Tinder has been testing a 'double dating' feature that enables users to team up with friends and match with other pairs for dates. In a recent internal memo, Rascoff even went so far as to say that employees should focus on improving people's experiences on the app even if it sacrifices short-term revenue. That's not something you hear every day, but it's a good sign that the Tinder dating app experience is about to be improved. And it's further proof that Tinder and its parent company recognize that if users don't have good experiences on the app, they will take their dating business elsewhere.
