Stone me! Sharon hit by ‘fake’ online date claim
YOU might not think that Hollywood sex symbols would have problems getting a date.
But Sharon Stone has revealed that she not only uses a dating app – but that her profile was then blocked.
Miss Stone, 61, said users reported her to the Bumble app because they feared her account was fake.
She tweeted to ask Bumble – on which women users make the first contact – to reinstate her account. ‘I went on the Bumble dating site and they closed my account,’ she said. ‘Some users reported that it couldn’t possibly be me.’
She added: ‘Hey Bumble, is being me exclusionary? Don’t shut me out of the hive.’ The Golden Globe winner shared a picture of Bumble’s message to her. ‘You’ve been blocked,’ it read. ‘We’re committed to keeping Bumble safe, which means we haveto enforce certain rules when our values are violated.
‘Your account has been blocked because we’ve received several reports about your profile being fake.’
But once she challenged Bumble, the app’s editorial director Clare O’Connor responded: ‘AHA! Sharon Stone, we at Bumble found your account, unblocked you, and ensured this won’t happen again. You can get back to Bumbling! Thanks for bearing with us and hope you find your honey.’ Miss Stone became a sex-symbol in the 1990s through a series of roles in films such as Total Recall, Casino and Sliver, but is best-known for the 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct.
She lives in Los Angeles with her three adopted teenage sons.