Hilary Duff has a new man in her life! https://t.co/sFed6hFOZZ pic.twitter.com/rsR90YgJ0T

— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) January 18, 2017

Hilary Duff just did an interview with Cosmo where she said she didn’t want to “be that girl who’s desperate to find a mate.” As Kaiser mentioned in our story on that interview, Hilary may not want to be that girl, but she increasingly looks like she is, especially when you pay attention to the things she does. Hilary was last coupled-up with Rise Nation trainer Jason Walsh, with whom she took many well-photographed walks, posted photos with on Instagram and leaked stories about their new relationship to the celebrity press. So now she’s dating someone new, a music producer named Matthew Koma, and the paparazzi just happened to know where to find them together. Hilary took Matthew to the same hotel where she stayed the night she married her now ex-husband, Mike Comrie, in 2010. Is that tacky? Kaiser and I were talking about this, and she thinks that’s tacky. We know this because US Magazine has the photos and story. The Daily Mail has more photos if you’re interested. Here’s an excerpt from US:

Hot new couple alert! Hilary Duff and her new music producer boyfriend, Matthew Koma, spent the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day long weekend at Santa Barbara’s San Ysidro Ranch — the same hotel she spent her wedding night with then-husband Mike Comrie in August 2010.

A source tells Us Weekly that the duo enjoyed some R&R at the resort this past weekend. Before Duff and Koma, both 29, headed north, they were seen kissing while grabbing coffee with friends at Woodland Hills’ Gasolina Cafe in Los Angeles on Saturday, January 14.

“At the restaurant, they were seated on the same side of the table and pulled their chairs close together,” the insider says of the pair. “They were leaning in and laughing a lot. They had their arms linked and kissed at one point.”

Hours later, the singer-actress and the musician arrived at their hotel for some alone time together. “They checked in to San Ysidro Ranch on Saturday afternoon and stayed on the property until Sunday morning,” the source tells Us. “They went to breakfast on Coast Village Road at Jeannine’s and then they took a stroll with their coffees. When they left, Matt was driving Hilary’s car.”

Before the lovebirds’ weekend getaway, Duff and Koma had worked together on a series of tracks for the “Sparks” songstress’ fifth studio album, Breathe In. Breathe Out., which was released in June 2015. Koma — who previously dated Carly Rae Jepsen — served as a cowriter and producer for several of Duff’s songs, including “Confetti,” “Arms Around a Memory” and “Breathe In. Breathe Out.”

[From US Magazine]

If you’re “famous” and I use that term lightly, you’ve got to know that taking a dude to the same hotel where you stayed on your wedding night is a big passive aggressive “eff you” to the ex. Hilary claims in interviews that she gets along with Mike great and that they’re successfully coparenting their four year-old son, Luca, but the truth is probably not that rosy. I get staying somewhere you already have been to, but my question is this: how did US Weekly know that this was Hilary’s wedding night hotel? Do you think they did their homework on this or is it more likely that Hilary told US Weekly at the same time she was giving insider quotes? Also, she has new music coming out and this was her producer. There’s something skeevy about that, but at least they’re both 29. From what I can find, Koma has dated singer Carly Rae Jepsen and actress Emily Kinney. You may know her as Beth from The Walking Dead, but Kinney had a side career in music, if you can call it that.

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