This Hollywood Couple Met Via a Craigslist Missed Connection Post

This is too cute! If you're single, would you try this? In a 2024 interview, Colman Domingo recounted how a Craigslist missed connection at a Berkeley Walgreens led to his marriage. Get all the details here.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, so let's get to this trending report. Tanya, Okay, So.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Coleman Domingo, the actor who is from Sing Sing, the
movie that was nominated a ton He was walking the
carpet with his husband, Raoul Domingo.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Is he in a red blazer?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
The oscars? Okay?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yes, And they have been together for nearly twenty years.
But the way that they met is straight up out
of a movie, and I thought it was a really
important life lesson. So Coleman and Raoul first met in
two thousand and five through a Craigslist missed Connections post. So,
while visiting NorCal, Coleman noticed a beautiful man outside of
Walgreens in Berkeley, but he did not approach him. A

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few days later, he came across a Craigslist post titled
saw you outside of Walgreens Berkeley written by Raoul just
hours earlier. So they met three days later, and Coleman
felt an immediate connection and then boomed. Twenty years later,
they're still together.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I love it, I know, and like some people like
times have that happened in your life where you don't
have the braveness to say anything.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Or you make eye contact or make eyes with somebody
like driving down the street and you feel like you
have like a thirty and then they're gone. You know,
like you should post that somewhere and like like.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Seek it out with Craigslis, Like I used to get
nervous buy a couch off Craigslist. This is a real
leap of faith here totally, but it works out out
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