Romance isn’t dead — but at least one of her suitors is.
Lillian Droniak, aka Grandma Droniak, the 93-year-old influencer with 12.6 million TikTok followers, posted a summary of the dates she went on last year.
The Shelton, Connecticut, great-grandmother had five first dates — two of whom she met at bingo, one at a funeral, one at a bar, and one on Instagram.
“This is what happened to them: one wasn’t honest, one died, I ghosted two and one became my boyfriend,” she said in the post, which garnered 12.8 million views on TikTok and 20 million on Instagram.
“You might be wondering how many I kissed. I kissed all of them.”
Droniak had no problem making the first move.
“Two of them I went over to them and said hello. I let them do the rest of the talking after that,” she told The Post.
“One of the ones I went up to is now my boyfriend.” But she was coy about who.
“He is private and doesn’t want anything about him disclosed until he is ready,” she said.
Others hit on her — and the man she met on Instagram, where she has 2.3 million followers, actually slid into her DMs — with a little help from a younger relative.
“His grandkid DMed me and set up the date because we live close,” she explained.
Droniak ghosted two of the men “because they were rude and I realized I couldn’t trust them,” she said.
“One never held the door open for me and the other one would take days to reply to my messages.”
One ghosted her — but only “because he became a ghost” — meaning, the sudden end to his communication was explained when “I saw his name in the obituary in the newspaper,” she said.
Droniak started making YouTube videos with her grandson, Kevin, in 2012 and found fame on TikTok. The “grandfluencer” now gets recognized when she’s out on the town and even on dates.
“It has happened, and I don’t mind it,” she said.
Her post about getting ready for a date last year — her first in 25 years and the first since her husband passed away in 2000 — went viral.
“This is my outfit. If he doesn’t like it, he could leave. All I want is a free dinner. I’m not even going to bring my wallet,” she said in the post, which got 71 million views.
Droniak — a mother of three, grandmother of five, and great-grandmother of three — said “Two of the first dates were at Chili’s. Two of them were at the diner near me and the other one was at a park.”
“It made me happy that I had more of an eventful dating life in 2023 than the younger generations,” she said.
This year, Droniak hasn’t had to go on any first dates — since she became exclusive with her current beau after a month.
“He is very handsome and cares a lot about me and liked me before he knew I was famous,” she said.
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