Woman called fat on Tinder date makes £2,000 after jokingly setting up GoFundMe

A woman who set up a joke GoFundMe page after a disaster Tinder date called her fat has now made almost £2,000 in donations from sympathetic strangers.

Jade Savage travelled for three hours to meet her date only for him to call her fat.

She jokingly asked for donations to claw back the £93 she’d paid to travel to go for a drink with the ‘dark-haired, blue-eyed’ man she’d met on the popular dating app.

She told how she was stunned when he took one look at her and said: "F*&k me, you’ve put on weight" and told her to go home if she "didn’t like hearing the truth."

Single mum Jade, 28, has raised £919 so far after asking for money for "wine and sticks of lard", but says she’ll donate some to charities to help prevent suicide and abused women.

On top of that, dating app Bumble has offered to match the donations on her GoFundMe page so she isn’t put off dating for good, making the total £1,838.

Jade said: "It’s incredible. I didn’t think it would go this far but I don’t regret calling him out on his behaviour. And I’m not going to let one guy’s silly comments stop me from going on dates. I’m happy with the way I look and hadn’t had any complaints before."

The support worker, who has a four-year-old son, Jimmy, says she’d put on 6lbs before going to meet the ‘flash’ salesman after he’d dumped her a month before.

"We’d been on three dates before including a weekend in London where he’d wined and dined me," says Jade. "But then he announced that he had been talking to another woman and wanted to take her out. I was like, “'OK crack on' but of course it’s not nice to hear the guy you’ve seen a few times likes someone else.

"I was single and decided to slob out in my PJs on the sofa eating anything and everything I could while drinking wine and wondering if I’d ever meet Mr Right. It was my Bridget Jones moment.

"I put on almost half a stone, but I’m always curvy – I’m a size 14 and 5ft 2ins – and didn’t think it mattered. I love my curves and I’m comfortable in my own skin.

"Then we started messaging again and he suggested going on another date. I had put on weight on my stomach, the tops of my arms and chin, but I felt confident about the way I looked."

Jade wore a fitted black jersey dress to the drinks date, travelling 40 miles from her home in Syston, Leicestershire, to meet for drinks in Peterborough.

"I was intrigued to see him again," she says, "But I couldn’t find him when I arrived at the station. I texted and he said he was outside in the car.

"As soon as I opened the passenger door, he took one look at me and said: ‘F*^k me, you’ve put some weight on.

"I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It wasn’t banter and I asked why he would say something like that."

He replied: ‘Well it’s the truth.’ He kept repeating it so I called him a ‘pr*&k and he went berserk.

"I got out of the car and he said he’d give me the cost of my train ticket, but I refused and left. I didn’t need him to judge me. I like the way I look and his opinion is irrelevant."

"Fuming, Jade went to the hotel opposite the train station to cool down over a glass of wine – and posted on Facebook about ‘the worst dating experience of my life."

"I said I didn’t need to dress up, pay to travel all that way, and spend all that money only to be called fat by my date. One of my friends said for a joke that I should set up a GoFundMe page to get my money back and so I did.

"I thought my friends would donate for a laugh but I didn’t expect it to go viral."

She says she will spend the money donated on wine and then give some to a suicide prevention charity and to a woman’s shelter.

Jade has three dates lined up through the Badoo dating site next week.

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