Nedd Brockmann, the 27-year-old ultramarathon runner, has disclosed that his recent efforts to re-enter the dating scene were abruptly halted when he was banned from the dating application Hinge. The athlete, who previously had a relationship with personal trainer Jemma Griffin, shared the 'embarrassing' reason for his removal from the platform on Wednesday.
Speaking to KIIS FM's Will & Woody, Brockmann explained that his account was flagged by an individual who doubted its authenticity, resulting in a ban. 'I got banned from Hinge... I didn't verify my account on Hinge and someone flagged it saying I was claiming to be me,' he recounted.
Host Thomas 'Woody' Whitelaw chimed in, revealing a similar experience: 'That actually happened to me. I was seriously going on Hinge and people thought I wouldn't be so desperate to go on Hinge.' He added, 'So weird people contacted the radio station being like, there's a person masquerading as you and then I had to say, "It's actually me."'
Brockmann laughed off the situation, saying, 'How embarrassing. I'm in the same boat. I'm like, "How desperate are you, Nedd?" I might write a petition to Hinge. That is desperate.' He noted that the incident occurred while he 'was in Perth'. 'I thought, I can't go to my Instagram to see who's in Perth. I was like, I better just go on Hinge and see if anyone's around. Yeah. Anyway, that's how it was.'
Woody joked about turning the story into a radio arc: 'I quite seriously want to turn this into a radio arc. Get Brockmann back on Hinge. You know Hinge are up for it.' Brockmann responded with a light-hearted comment, saying he would 'protest and try and get this interview scrapped from the network'.
Brockmann was previously in a relationship with personal trainer Jemma Griffin, who supported him during his 47-day run across Australia in 2022. However, the pair quietly parted ways at the end of 2023. Recently, he was awarded Young Australian of the Year 2026 for his extraordinary efforts in raising over $10.6 million for homelessness in Australia. The former electrician from Forbes, New South Wales, ran close to 100km a day for 46 and a half days in 2022 to cross Australia coast-to-coast in an ultramarathon. He later completed another charity run in 2024, running 1,000 miles around Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre.
