Celebrities Who Admit to Sliding Into DMs: Everyone From Demi Lovato to Ricky Martin

Demi Lovato

Demi is guilty of sliding into Schitt’s Creek star Emily Hampshire’s DMs, which was revealed when the actress appeared on their podcast, “4D with Demi Lovato.”

“You slid in my DMs, and you said, ‘Hey girl, I like you on the show. We should kick it sometime,'” Emily said. “And then you said below it, ‘And by kick it, I mean go on a date. I find you attractive.’ You made it clear it was a date. And I loved that because I was like, ‘Sometimes that’s confusing’… I’m decades older than you, so ‘kick it,’ I was looking it up.”

While the two didn’t end up dating, it did start a great friendship.

Joe Jonas

Joe met his future wife, Sophie Turner in the DMs. 

“We had a lot of mutual friends,” the Game of Thrones actress told Harpers Bazaar. “They’d been trying to introduce us for a long time. We were following each other on Instagram, and he direct-messaged me one fine day, out of the blue.” 

The two were married in May 2019.

Nick Jonas

Slipping into those DMs is a family tradition, it seems. Joe’s younger brother and Jonas Brothers bandmate, Nick, made his move on his future wife, Priyanka Chopra, by sending a message on Twitter.

“I’m hearing from a few mutual friends that we should meet,” Nick wrote in 2016, according to his interview with Vogue. “She responded day of with a message that said, ‘My team can read this. Why don’t you just text me.'”

Nick and Priyanka were married in December 2018.

Lizzo

The “Juice” singer isn’t shy about sharing her experiences with direct messaging, and one person, in particular, seems to be on her radar: Chris Evans. 

Lizzo shared on TikTok that she had messaged the actor and, while the two didn’t set up a date, he did react to the message. 

Dua Lipa

Dua Lipa thanks direct messaging for her relationship with her boyfriend, Anwar Hadid.

“Yes, [I’ve slid into DMs] … I have a confession to make. Mine was my boyfriend, so my current boyfriend’s DMs. I definitely did that … We actually met at a barbecue. But then it carried on to DMs,” Dua said on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.

Mandy Moore

The “Candy” singer shared her love for the band Dawes on Instagram when the singer and guitarist, Taylor Goldsmith, shot his shot.

“I took a picture of their album and posted it on Instagram. Somehow, Taylor saw it and sent a note to me. We started emailing back and forth, then we went on a date and the rest is history,” Mandy told People in 2017. “Thanks Instagram, for helping me meet my fiancé!” 

The pair said “I do” in November 2018.

Ricky Martin

Ricky claims he was first intrigued by Jwan Yosef’s art on Instagram, but that eventually turned into a marriage.

Dylan Sprouse

Dylan met his long-term girlfriend, Barbara Palvin, at a party and when she added him on Instagram, the Disney star sent her a direct message.

“She followed me, so I was like, I guess I’ll give her something. And I slid into her DMs,” Dylan told W Magazine. “I was like, ‘Hey, I don’t know if you’re in New York for very long, but we should hang out if you want to. Here’s my number.’ And she didn’t message me for six months.”

Wells Adams and Sarah Hyland

Sarah and Bachelor In Paradise alum Wells were following each other on Twitter for a while before he sent her a private message.

“I was following him. We had tweeted each other because I thought he was funny and he was a fan of the show,” Sarah Hyland said on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “I was like, ‘This is really awesome. You’re being very forward and it’s sexy and not aggressive but very confident and sexy,’ and I liked that.”

In July 2019, the two became engaged.

Amber Riley

The Glee star made the first move with her now-fiancé, Desean Black, and shared the screenshot of her success on Instagram. She confessed to xoNecole that it was a “wine night for sure.” 

Tarek El Moussa

Tarek and Heather Rae Young are now married, but it took a bit of chasing to get there. The couple met on Tarek’s boat during a Fourth of July party when he attempted to ask her out.

“She was like, ‘You already asked me out [on Instagram],'” Tarek said on podcast Not Skinny But Not Fat. He didn’t remember sending her a DM but when he looked at his messages, he saw that she turned him down because she had a boyfriend. “So, I looked back and asked, ‘So, do you still have that boyfriend?’ and she’s like ‘Nope.'”