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You may feel as if you’ve exhausted all avenues when it comes to your dating life, but have you tried making an Instagram Reel that lays out all your pertinent info and scoring it to a One Direction song? You could wind up dating the daughter of a famous game-show host. That’s how it worked out for Jackson Olson, an infielder for the dancing baseball team the Savannah Bananas, who hard-launched his relationship with Maggie Sajak (as in Pat Sajak’s 31-year-old daughter) on Tuesday.
Back in December, Olson — who’s 28 and said he had been single for five years — posted a video he called his “boyfriend application,” which listed all the facts and qualities a woman might want to know about him: He loves the Disney parks, he has an “unhealthy obsession with musicals,” and he has “the diet of a 12-year-old.” Most important, his parents were “sick” of him being single, so he really needed to find a partner.
While many women in Olson’s comments were clamoring to date a baseball player with self-described “Peter Pan syndrome,” Sajak won out in the end. On Tuesday, Olson and Sajak, who works as the social-media correspondent for Wheel of Fortune (naturally), shared a joint post of them smiling at Disneyland. “Applications closed✅” they wrote in the caption.
Fellas, what is stopping you from finding love this way? Sure, Olson has 1 million Instagram followers and is a handsome professional performer, but don’t let that keep you from following in his footsteps. You never know when one of Art Fleming’s grandchildren will find you on the “Explore” page.
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