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A word of advice for anyone still swiping: “Keep at it,” says Véronique de Vallière . “It’s a numbers game.” Sounds arduous, but it’s true. The 35-year-old Swiss-Australian publicist had sat through her fair share of “doozies” dredged up from the London dating pool before finally matching with Rob McHugh, a private equity director from Meblbourne, on Hinge in 2021. “Our first date was a liquid dinner on the rooftop of the Culpepper in Shoreditch,” she says, with a laugh. “All wine, no food. Then he walked me home, and we shared our first kiss outside my door in Dalston. He had this warmth to him, and a humour that