After a divorce, two bouts of breast cancer , and navigating the treacherous terrain of online dating (including an unsolicited picture or two), Coast FM host Lorna Riley has found her happily ever after. She speaks to the Herald’s Lana Andelane about her recent engagement to Hinge match Mike, love in your 50s, and how the old adage “when you know, you know” still rings true. “On the second date, we pretty much realised we were going to be together forever.
” This is how broadcaster Lorna Riley summarises the start of her whirlwind romance with now-fiancé Mike , a man she matched with on the dating app Hinge and met in-person at a James Taylor concert in late April. “I [matched with] this man who said, ‘I’m going to a concert tomorrow night. I’ve got a spare ticket - do you want to come?’ And I thought, ‘Well, concerts are pretty safe, there’s security guards around.
If it doesn’t work out, we don’t even have to talk much’,” Riley, 56, recalls to the Herald. “I went to this concert and within 24 hours, we had arranged our second date, which was three days later.”.