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Iain Stirling on Love Island

secrets, girlfriend Laura Whitmore

– and house-cleaning in the buff

The first thing you
do every morning?
I feel terrible saying
it, but I check my
phone. Insta Stories:
40 minutes of my life
I’ll never get back. How romantic mopping up after a few “be honest”. If you do
What makes you are you? tequilas and beers with something wrong, admit
The
happiest? picture in I’m getting my headphones in, just to it immediately. If you
Putting something in question better. I like cleaning up. I had a try to cover it up and
my body, like food or the idea of pinny on and nothing lie about it, it will only
drink. I don’t mean being romantic because else... (I may have made become worse and the
another body part. a red circle around [my I think the older you that last bit up.) I was trust will be broken.
Consumption-based, bulge]. I felt violated! get, things like giving absolutely off my face Are you and Laura
WORDS NICOLA FAHEY. PHOTOGRAPHS GETTY IMAGES, INSTAGRAM @IAINDOESJOKES
not sex-based. I don’t have a nickname presents and being but I still managed it. the next Marvin
Have you had any for mine – that’s the sort romantic feels nice. The biggest love and Rochelle?
Love Island-style of thing that will get As you begin to get lesson Love Island’s Thanks for saying
pampering – fake you arrested. older you start to taught you? Marvin and Rochelle –
tan, teeth-whitening? What’s been your appreciate making Genuinely, and I don’t I spoke to someone
No. I am from Scotland worst on-stage other people feel good. follow this enough recently and they said
and have all my own experience? What’s the most myself, it’s Richard and Judy. We
teeth, which makes me I was recording a show romantic thing might become the next
some sort of, like, royal. for CBBC. I was talking you’ve done for power couple, but the
You’ve said that to an eight-year-old boy Laura (right)? problem is Laura’s
you’re happy your and told him he had a Last night was pretty very good – a very
bulge has finally “f*cking great name” sexy. I got in after a few accomplished presenter
been getting the – [it was] something like drinks and drunkenly – and I’m an idiot. I feel
attention it deserves Farquar, something tidied the house. I’ve I’d be holding her back.
– has it developed really middle class, and never had my partner
an ego? I swore. At one point look at me with such Iain’s new stand-up tour,
The Daily Mail put a a six-year-old girl cried, desire in my entire life. Failing Upwards, is on
picture up and [added] “Mummy, can we go?” It was when I was 6th March to 31st May

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