Alaya F goes fishing. See how she swipes on these common dating-app bios

How much can you decode from a man’s dating profile? We got actor Alaya F to suss out bios and tell us how to spot a creep from a keeper, via just a few lines

Surely, the dating-app bio is the literary art form of our time. A whole personality squeezed into a few upbeat lines. Hobbies are played up (I travel! I eat! I spend Sunday recovering from Saturday night!). Anxieties are played down (I’m tall... enough! I’m not too needy! I can take a joke!). Some throw in a bonus: A pop-culture reference, a pun, a possibly stolen playlist. Some, seal their own fates, opening with a joke that’s so off-colour, there’s no need to read on.

Actor Alaya F, 26 and single, on what it takes to make someone dateable in 2024. (Photographed by Alaya F; Styled by Sheefaj Gilani, assisted by Jhanvi Khatwani. Make-up by Mitali Vakil; hair by Souravv Roy. Outfit by Massimo Dutti, Amritraj Bora; jewellery by Viangevintage.)

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The worst conversation starter is, “So, do you like cheese?”, made iconic in She’s The Man (2006).

Alaya says she’d prefer dating a quiet man, because she is extroverted.

Anyone who opens with “Hello, my future wife” deserves a coffee thrown in his face, like in Mismatched.

Ice breakers to avoid on dating apps.