LDS Church mentioned in movie about the founding of Tinder and Bumble

A recent film depicting the creation of dating apps Tinder and Bumble includes a brief reference to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (formerly known as the LDS Church), highlighting founder Whitney Wolfe Herd’s Utah roots.

The movie, Swiped, now streaming on Hulu, dramatizes the events surrounding the creation of the two major dating platforms. In one scene, Bumble investor Andrey Andreev invites Wolfe Herd to a musical. Afterward, he asks if she was offended by it. When she says she was not, he questions whether she is “Mormon.” Wolfe Herd clarifies that she is not, explaining that while she lived in Utah, not everyone from the state is a member of the Church.

Wolfe Herd was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Kelly and Michael Wolfe. Her father, a real estate developer, is Jewish, and her mother is Catholic, and she was raised in a mixed-faith household. She attended Judge Memorial Catholic High School before studying international studies at Southern Methodist University, where she joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.

Before founding Bumble, Wolfe Herd co-founded Tinder, later leaving the company and launching her own platform focused on creating a safer and more empowering space for women in online dating.

The brief mention of the Church in Swiped serves as a nod to Wolfe Herd’s early life in Utah and the cultural context that surrounded her upbringing, rather than as a commentary on religion itself.