Trevor Noah Has an Online Dating Account and a Girlfriend

This is the photo Trevor Noah uses for his Raya profile pic. (Photo: Instagram)

Trevor Noah is keeping his options open.

The Daily Show host has a profile on the celebrity dating app Raya. No big deal, right? Well, he also has a girlfriend.

The New York Daily News was the first to report that the South African comedian, who has been dating car show model Jordyn Taylor since the summer, has been double dipping. A rep told the newspaper that he was keeping the account active for — gulp — “research” purposes. Yep, add that to the list of worst celebrity excuses ever.

Noah’s profile photo, which shows him looking dapper in a suit and tie, is the same photo he posted on his Instagram last summer. It was captioned, “Long day but fun day. Shooting promos for The Daily Show.” The app, which is described as “an exclusive dating and networking platform for people in creative industries” and used by celebs from Kelly Osbourne and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models to Moby, is linked to Instagram and users get approved to join based on “how many active Raya members follow the applicant on Instagram.”

His rep’s entire statement on the debacle is as follows: “Trevor and some of the correspondents signed up for dating apps as part of production research for a comedy bit they are doing for The Daily Show.”

Noah, who took over on Comedy Central for Jon Stewart in September, has been dating Taylor since the summer and, according to the Daily News, they live together in his Upper East Side apartment. She also accompanied him to South Africa to meet his parents. Her Instagram has a photo of them ringing in the new year together.