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love island star on his romance with laura
LAURA Whitmore’s boyfriend Iain Stirling has confessed being in a relationship with someone in the spotlight is scary.
The 30-year-old comedian, who is reality TV hit as the voice of Love Island, opened up about his blossoming romance with the Wicklow-born presenter.
Speaking to Hot Press, he said: “For me, it’s brand new – so it’s scary. But some of the stuff, you’ve just got to laugh. Some of it is absolute madness.”
Stirling started dating the 33-year-old around the time an interview with her was published, detailing her attitudes on virginity, sex and drugs.
However, he said: “It was actually quite a nice way to get to know her a bit better.
“It’s nice as well, when you read interviews like that where there’s no agenda. I think with the media, especially being a female, you’ve got to deal with so much nonsense.
“And they’ve always got an angle they want to come in from, and it means you never get to say what you want to say. So, it was nice just reading something like that. I recognised Laura in it, if you know what I mean.
“You could tell from what was written down she was obviously comfortable to talk about those things. Which is great because that’s who she is – she’s a very open, upfront, honest person.”
Stirling, from Edinburgh, revealed his excitement to perform at Vicar Street, Dublin, in November and said it feels “kind of like a home gig” even though they aren’t living together yet.
He explained: “We’ve still got our own places, but when we’re in London we do spend the time together. I just hang about hers, like a stray dog, yapping at the door.”