{"id":2339843,"date":"2026-03-21T10:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2339843"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:45:17","slug":"woman-went-on-a-first-date-when-her-flight-was-canceled-she-stayed-with-his-family-for-a-week-now-theyre-soulmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/woman-went-on-a-first-date-when-her-flight-was-canceled-she-stayed-with-his-family-for-a-week-now-theyre-soulmates\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Went on a First Date. When Her Flight Was Canceled, She Stayed with His Family for a Week \u2014 Now They\u2019re \u2018Soulmates\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Courtney Lumsden met R\u00e9mi Menochet on a Hinge date in Paris the night before she was supposed to fly to the United Kingdom to visit a sick family member<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After her flight was canceled, Menochet invited her to stay with him and introduced her to his family; they fell in love almost immediately<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We&#8217;re definitely soulmates,&#8221; Lumsden, who now lives with him in Paris, said<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An ABBA tribute singer found her soulmate, and it&#8217;s all thanks to a cancelled flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Courtney\u00a0Lumsden moved to Paris from the United Kingdom about nine years ago, but she had plans to return for a trip to visit a sick family member. When things went awry, she wound up meeting the love of her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The night before her flight, Lumsden, 36, went on a date with a French man named R\u00e9mi Menochet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We set up a date from Hinge,&#8221; Lumsden said, according to Kennedy News and Media. &#8220;I had been single for a year and a half, and I was against all these dating apps, but my friend suggested I give it a go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.dotdashmeredith.com\/people-news-inline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE's free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;PEOPLE'&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><strong>PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Courtney Lumsden (left) and R\u00e9mi Menochet (right).<br \/>Credit: Kennedy News and Media<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We met in this really nice place in front of the Eiffel Tower on a rooftop, he was trying to impress me,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lumsden and Menochet, 24, got dinner and &#8220;spent the whole night laughing.&#8221; Although she was sad to have to say goodbye, the professional singer soon got an email informing her that her EasyJet flight home was canceled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He could see I was distraught because I wanted to go see a family member who was really ill,&#8221; Lumsden said. &#8220;He suggested I go and stay with him and meet his family, which is pretty intense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Things moved &#8220;quick&#8221; from there as she stayed with the family for a week. Lumsden said she hasn&#8217;t &#8220;left his side&#8221; since. She added, &#8220;He came to the U.K. with me to see my family member, who has now been given the all-clear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The happy couple goes on adventures together, traveling to Greece, Spain and other parts of France; Lumsden lives with him in Paris, and they&#8217;re talking about formally moving in together.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Courtney\u00a0Lumsden (left) and R\u00e9mi Menochet (right).Credit: Kennedy News and Media\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/Kcd8xNG1YCIsOrkAfE40Hg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTk2MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/424759793d9a6d27a22501a244d80196\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Courtney Lumsden (left) and R\u00e9mi Menochet (right).<br \/>Credit: Kennedy News and Media<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We are definitely soulmates, he is my third relationship, and it is completely different to all the others,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We&#8217;re both blown away because age doesn&#8217;t seem to be a problem, when before I wouldn&#8217;t even entertain that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Despite their age gap, which Lumsden said would have been an issue before, the two bonded over shared passions and are still going strong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One of those passions is music. In particular, they&#8217;re both fans of Abba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We were listening to &#8216;Super Trouper,&#8217; and I said &#8216;Let me show you something,&#8217; and I showed him my ABBA tributes,&#8221; Lumsden recalled. &#8220;He seemed to be the right one. We are just like soulmates, best friends, we find it really hard to be without each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even EasyJet has supported the lovebirds, with a spokesperson saying, &#8220;While we do everything we can to avoid cancelled flights, we are pleased with what this led to for\u00a0Courtney\u00a0and her partner and would like to offer both of them a return flight each to use in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/woman-first-date-return-flight-canceled-stayed-now-soulmates-11927341\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;People&quot;}\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.style.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Courtney Lumsden met R\u00e9mi Menochet on a Hinge date in Paris the night before she was supposed to fly to the United Kingdom to visit a sick family member After her flight was canceled, Menochet invited her to stay with him and introduced her to his family; they fell in love almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2339844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[453394,369417,453395],"class_list":["post-2339843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-courtney-lumsden","tag-family-member","tag-remi-menochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Woman-Went-on-a-First-Date-When-Her-Flight-Was.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339845,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339843\/revisions\/2339845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}