Dean Gaffney looking for love on app saying dating him ‘is like winning the Lottery every day’ – but has strict rule
EASTENDERS legend Dean Gaffney is looking for love on a dating app and is telling potential suitors that being with him is “like winning the Lottery every day”.
Dean, who has twin daughters Chloe and Charlotte, 28, from his relationship with ex-partner Sarah Burge, has turned to Hinge to help him find a girlfriend.
The TV star, 46, has ruled out being with someone who smokes, calling it his “most irrational fear”.
He said the way to his heart is being humble.
His app profile states: “Be a nice humble person, it’s nice to be nice… you’ll get the same from me.”
Dean, who’s 5ft 7ins, also shared a collection of photographs of himself suited and booted to woo a woman.
The Robbie Jackson actor split from Sarah in 2015 and went on to date model Rebekah Rose-Ward, who he was with for three years.
He turned to another dating app, Bumble, in 2019 after that romance ended, and the following year signed up to Celebs Go Dating.
A source said at the time: “He’s a down-to-earth guy who doesn’t take life too seriously and just wants someone to spend time with. Dean knows he’s casting the net wide but he thinks that way there is more of a chance of meeting Mrs Right.”
His latest search for love comes six months after he was run over on a night out by £70million footballer Wesley Fofana.
Dean suffered a broken collar-bone after being “catapulted” into the air when he was struck by the player’s Lamborghini.
He was treated in hospital before being allowed home while £230,000-a-week Fofana was breathalysed at the scene on the King’s Road in Chelsea, West London.
The French international centre-back, 23, passed the test and was allowed on his way as he was not deemed to be at fault for the accident.
A source said: “It was a nasty accident and Dean said afterwards that he was lucky to be alive and was counting his blessings.
“He’d just left a nightspot and was trying to get in a black cab when the Lamborghini hit him in the midriff, catapulting him into the air.
“He was out cold and his mates were all really worried. The emergency services gave him pain relief and he was patched up in hospital.”