Move over Coleen Rooney, there’s a new celebrity super sleuth.
Lily Allen turned Wagatha Christie to find out if her husband David Harbour was looking for other women after their separation.
The Smile singer unleashed an impressive set of skills after suspecting her husband was cheating, and was left in ‘agony’ when she discovered the actor had a secret profile on the celebrity dating app Raya, The Mail on Sunday revealed.
Deciding there was only one way to find out the truth, Lily rejoined the dating app where she first met David, and pretended to be ‘looking for women’.
She soon discovered that David, 49, had already set up a dating profile and was listed on the app as being active for at least a month.
A source spilled of Lily’s meticulous methods: ‘Lily was looking for women that were on Raya and cross-referencing them with women David follows on Instagram to try to figure out who he was seeing. She was doing her Wagatha thing.’
Move over Coleen Rooney, there’s a new celebrity super sleuth. Lily Allen turned Wagatha Christie to find out if her husband David Harbour was looking for a new romance
The singer unleashed an impressive set of skills after suspecting her husband was cheating, and was left in ‘agony’ when she discovered he had a secret profile on celeb dating app Raya
Former England football star Wayne Rooney’s wife Coleen famously was dubbed ‘Wagatha Christie’ after she turned detective online to out fellow WAG Rebekah Vardy as the apparent leaker of stories about her.
‘Lily only rejoined Raya to try to figure out whether he was seeing someone,’ the insider continued.
‘Lily has never even looked at anyone since she met David. She is devastated. He broke up with Lily a month ago. He was meant to be on holiday with her in Kenya over Christmas.’
Harbour’s dating profile, exclusively revealed by the MoS, reads: ‘Visiting New York from Atlanta’ and ‘closet nerd that plays tough guys on your TV’.
He lists his profile song as the Houses Of The Holy by Led Zeppelin.
Harbour describes himself as living in Atlanta, Georgia, 800 miles from the family home in Brooklyn, New York, where the couple moved in 2020, with Allen enrolling her children in local schools.
He bought a house in Atlanta last year, so he could be closer to the Stranger Things set.
The show wrapped filming its fifth and final series just before Christmas. Allen’s circle of London friends say she has believed since the autumn that her husband is interested in other women.
Raya is so exclusive that it accepts only around 8 per cent of applicants, but it has more than 10,000 members, with 100,000 on the waiting list. Pictured: Harbour’s dating profile
A source spilled of Lily’s meticulous methods: ‘Lily was looking for women that were on Raya and cross-referencing them with women David follows on Instagram (David and Lily at their 2020 wedding)
By the time the couple broke up about a month ago, she had become convinced that he had a secret girlfriend.
The singer has not made any public statements on her relationship with Harbour since it emerged they had parted ways last month, but a friend of the Smile hitmaker confirmed that they had officially ‘separated’.
David has previously spoken about his penchant for a whirlwind romance.
‘I’m easily swept away, but I’m trying not to be as much. I’m better at the fantasy of relationships than I am at the daily real life, but I’m trying to steer myself into a realist,’ the Stranger Things actor told Women’s Health in October 2017.
He added, ‘What I find most exciting now is sharp, intelligent, insightful women. People who are deep thinking, who have sort of a weird way of looking at the universe are wildly attractive to me. So if I can find one of those gals who can stand me, then maybe I might have something thing.’
The actor has a history of dating fellow thespians, enjoying a three year relationship with Broadway veteran Maria Thayler from 2008 to 2011, with the pair even getting engaged prior to their split.
Shortly after that split, David went public with actress Julia Stiles after the two starred together in the film Between Us.
They were linked for four years, walking several red carpets together and moving in in New York, before they eventually split.
In early 2018 David debuted his romance with actress and singer Alison Sudol. A besotted Alison paid tribute to her man on social media, gushing in a Valentine’s Day post:
The actor has a history of dating fellow thespians, enjoying a three year relationship with Broadway veteran Maria Thayler from 2008 to 2011,
Shortly after that split, David went public with actress Julia Stiles after the two starred together in the film Between Us
In early 2018 David debuted his romance with actress and singer Alison Sudol. Just over a year later though the pair had split, shortly before he met Lily on Raya
‘I’m sitting here and I’m thinking to myself, wow, this human being that I am on this crazy journey with is pretty unbelievable.
‘What a generous, large-hearted, roaring wonder of a person I get to walk around and do stuff with. Like eat food and read books out loud and watch our dog sleep. And isn’t that great. What an ignited soul, what a fire-spirit.’
‘What a brilliant artist. What a caring, deep, intuitive individual, who has changed my life completely and utterly. What a lucky woman I am.’
Just over a year later though the pair had split, shortly before he met Lily on Raya.