After a highly-publicised and bitter divorce battle, her ex-husband recently proposed to a woman 19 years his junior.
But Alice Evans has failed in her own quest to find love on celebrity dating app Raya, insisting famous men just want to find ‘younger women.’
The British actress said she had been put into the oldest age category on the app since turning 55 and believes she hasn’t found any suitors because of it.
She urged other women to ‘lie’ about their age in order to achieve matches as most men want to date women who are younger than them.
Admitting that she has since deleted the app and is hoping to make in-person romantic connections, she told her Instagram followers: ‘For the love of god, lie about your age’.
It comes after her ex-husband, Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd, 50, announced his engagement to the Australian actress Bianca Wallace, his girlfriend 19 years his junior, in January.
Meanwhile, Alice yesterday wrote: ‘I joined Raya last year. I was 54. I was put into the 45-54 age group. I wasn’t exactly happy about being put into an ‘age group’ to be honest, but it was my age and I didn’t want to lie. If I was going to start a new relationship I didn’t want the awkward moment of explaining wasn’t 39.
But, she said: ‘This meant my info would only be available to those guys who actively wanted to meet women in that age group.’
‘Note to females – most men, in my short experience, like to think they’re open to all ages but are really not.’
It comes three years after she split from Gruffudd and became embroiled in a bitter custody battle over their two daughters Ella, 14, and Elise, 10.
Continuing she said: ‘But last August I turned 55 which transferred me to the 55 plus group – there is no older group.
‘I am in the same age bracket as my mother would have been had she still been alive [84].
‘As Jane Fonda [who is hot as hell, but I’m not into women] as Jeanne Calment would have been before she passed away at 122.
‘Literally, the oldest woman ever to put herself on a dating app would be in the same bracket as me.’
She accompanied the post with two selfies in which she wore a thick set of black glasses and a black top.
Rounding off her statement, the Vampire Diaries star wrote: ‘Don’t feel bad.
‘Both myself and my girls [who were the ones that convinced me to join in the first place] have laughed ourselves silly over it.
‘It is what it is. I’m coming off Raya this month and may actually be meeting some people via real-life introductions.’
Following their acrimonious separation in March 2021, the actors have been locked in a very public legal battle, resulting in slanging matches that threatened to overshadow their respective careers.
Gruffudd’s new fiancé recently launched an extraordinary attack on Alice, accusing her of ‘stalking, harassing and abusing’ the Fantastic Four actor.
She claimed Alice had set up fake social media accounts with the purpose of harassing them after a restraining order banned her from mentioning him on social media.
In a series of Instagram posts, Ms Wallace went on to share 4512 pages worth of social media posts in which Alice had mentioned her or Gruffudd as well as links to court documents detailing the three-year restraining order he took out against her as a result of the relentless posts.
In return, Alice said she was finally beginning to feel like herself again and thanked her fans for their ongoing support.
She said: ‘My life was uprooted with no warning in 2020. I didn’t react well. I applaud the people who do. But I’m intact. My girls are intact.’
Gruffudd now gets to see his daughters once a week in a new custody agreement after claiming his ex-wife stopped him from seeing them for a year.
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Dolly Busby
