The Hapa Blonde/GC Delaney Rowe spoke with PEOPLE exclusively about the inspiration behind her romantic tropes, opening up about how her real-life experiences inspire her parodies The content creator recalls an unexpected encounter with a guy on a date who referenced one of her fictional characters Rowe reveals that she relocated to New York City after living in Los Angeles for 12 years, a move that aligned with her recent "West Village Girls" parody in partnership with CeraVe Who's the real Delaney Rowe? In partnership with CeraVe, the content creator spoke with PEOPLE exclusively about the origin of the memorable characters in her viral skits, noting that her personal relationships sometimes fuel her romantic tropes. "Oh my God, of course," she says of whether her real-life experiences ever make their way into her skits. While Rowe, 29, is widely known for her "insufferable female lead" characters, her "highly unrealistic male-female friendshipin every romantic comedy" is also among her most talked about portrayals on her page. Related:N.Y.C. Influencer Details Shocking Aftermath of Living in 'Cursed' West Village Apartment for 6 Months Delaney Rowe/Tiktok "It's so funny because the guy that I do that video with, he is my dear friend," Rowe says in reference to her palJake Musser. "And so it's like sometimes we're like, we are pulling sometimes our little dynamics and mannerisms into the video." "And the comments, whenever I have a man in my videos, it's like, 'The chemistry! Date already!'" she continues. "I'm like, 'No, we really are just acting and we really just love this,' but I think people want it to be real, which is all you want. Of course, that's great!" Rowe references a recent video she did with Musser where they spoofed actors on press tours. "They're so flirty and they're so clearly playing up the romance, but it's because that ends up helping the project, so it's all this big act," she says. However, she prefaces there is a clear line between the Rowe people see on their screens and how she really acts in real life. In fact, she recalls a unique interaction she had with a guy on a first date — that didn't necessarily earn him a second. "I will say I've gone on a date where I had a guy sort of be like, 'Wait, can you do that girl right now?' And I was like, 'Oh, buddy, no,'" she shares, adding, "We're not going on a date again." "I'm acting in these videos and I think people sometimes forget that," she explains. "They see a normal interview of me and they comment, 'Oh wow, she really is insufferable.' I'm like, that's just an easy joke to make… just, come on. So I see that kind of comment a lot, and it makes me feel like, 'Well, I shot myself in the foot with this one a little bit.' Of course, that word is always going to be associated with me, and that's whatever." "I am an actor, so I don't show the sort of 'real Delaney' online very often," she continues. "So people are inevitably going to draw their own conclusions there, which is part of me on the internet, but I really don't think that I am these characters." Related:B.J. Novak and Delaney Rowe Are Dating (Exclusive Source) She also likes to maintain clear boundaries between her professional and personal life, noting that she keeps her social media accounts strictly work-related. "If you spend enough time on the internet, people will just start to extract things without your permission," she explains. "That's just what it looks like. There are things that I've seen about myself that are hilarious and crazy, and I'm like, 'I never even said anything about that.'" "But that's just what happens when you spend a lot of time doing what I'm doing, building a platform," the multi-talent explains. "I've been really careful to only be showing food and wine and restaurants that I like. I'm not doing a ton of commentary on my real feelings or day-to-day life." She adds, "I find that really a dangerous line for me to walk." Recently, Rowe — who's risen to fame for her self-produced comedy sketches since first uploading them on social media in 2020 — wasromantically linkedtoB.J. Novak, however, neither of the actors has publicly commented on it. In addition to using her personal experiences as inspiration behind her social media skits, Rowe revealed that she's also currently writing a book of essays inspired by her own real life. Though, don't expect to get an explicit diary! "It's a book of nonfiction, comedy essays — so that has a lot of personal stuff in it," she teases. "Again, it's shrouded. All the names are changed, facts are changed." Ultimately, Rowe admits she's playing the long game. "I am so happy that I'm at the age that I am now doing this," she says. "If I were younger, I would probably have recklessly opened up more on the internet, but I'm glad that I haven't." "I'm just trying to preserve longevity in this," she adds. "And I think that keeping a big part of my life private, that is a boundary that I needed to set in order to make sure I have the stamina to keep doing this." Related:Andy Cohen Reveals Why He's Leaving 'Dream' Apartment of 21 Years and What Kids Think of New Place (Exclusive) Elsewhere in the interview, Rowe revealed that she has officially relocated from California to New York City, which has inspired several new skits, including her "West Village Girls" parody in partnership with CeraVe. "I live in New York now," she shares. "I was in L.A. for 12 years, and then I had this lost year of doing the bi-coastal thing — and then I just made a choice, truly as recent as about four weeks ago." "I was like, 'I'm going to live in New York, a hundred percent,'" she recalls. "So I gave up the place in L.A." Since her move, Rowe states that she's been loving being an N.Y.C. girl. "New York is amazing," she says. "It is the most fun city in the world. That's also part of the problem because every night, there's just something.... It's so fun. It's so great. It's so social, it's so spontaneous that it feels very different from L.A." That energy is clear, and on full display in the creator's "West Village Girls" skit that riffed offNew York Magazine's recently-published article, "It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl." For the bit, Rowe teamed up with fellow content creator,Veronika Slowikowska, and CeraVe's new horned mascot, Sarah V. (a play off the dermatologist-recommended facial moisturizer brand's tagline, "Goated by the People"). Annika White Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The segment pokes fun at the stereotypical "20-something woman" that hangs in the trendy Manhattan neighborhood. They often wear "uniforms" (white tank and light-washed jeans), work in the same industries (finance, marketing, publicity, tech) and likely have social media side hustles, per the outlet. "They have seemingly endless disposable income. They are, by all conventional standards, beautiful. Occasionally, they are brunettes. Whatever their political beliefs, their lives seem fairly apolitical," per the outlet's description of a West Village girl. Rowe, who says she and Slowikowska wrote their script the day before they filmed, had a head start from concept to creation. "There was just so much material in the actual piece that was just very available to satirize," she says. "The Aperol spritz of it all, the white T-shirt, the jeans... We wanted it to be a celebration and a really fun satire and not at all mean-spirited." "I hang out in the West Village every now and then," says Rowe, who made clear, "I am definitely not a West Village girl." Read the original article onPeople
