Laura Nolan and her boyfriend Matthew MacNabb are saving up to buy a house together.
The couple, who hit it off when they were partnered together on Dancing with the Stars in 2021, are in the process of finding their dream home after a busy start to the summer.
Laura doesn't know if Dancing with the Stars will be back on screen next year, but she has a list of celebs she would like to be paired with.
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Laura told RSVP Live: "Matthew surprised me with a trip to Portugal for my birthday and then we went to France for a family wedding.
"Now, we are not going away anymore. We are saving for a house together.
"We have plans for that and we are working to put them in place. You know the way the market is at the moment, you have to put things in place beforehand."
The future of Dancing with the Stars is currently up in the air amid rumours it won't be coming back.
Laura said: "I haven’t heard anything. I wish I could say that I have heard, but I haven’t.
"We don’t normally know at this time of the year, so it is not unusual that we haven’t heard anything. We should have a better understanding over the next few months."
If the entertainment show is renewed Laura has a list of names she would like to be paired with with.
She said: "I think Marty Guilfoyle would be deadly and PJ from I’m Grand would be hilarious. I love him.
"I have always said that Brian O’Driscoll would be deadly. I would like to see Donncha O’Callaghan doing it as well.
"People keep coming up to me saying ‘I would love to do the show’. Once you have a good partner, that is the main thing."
On this season Laura made it to the penultimate stage of the competition with comedian Kevin McGahern.
She said: "The public really got behind us, but when we were initially put together I was like ‘Oh God, I didn’t know what it was going to be like.
"My God, he shocked me and as the weeks went on I realised that we had a bit of a chance to win it."
Away from Dancing with the Stars, Laura recently played Marilyn Monroe in the original Irish production of The Blonde Bombshell, but the tour was cancelled in May after transphobic tweets from show creator Ian Banham were uncovered.
She said: "It was such a great show and I was very lucky to be part of it. I am glad we got to perform it at least once when we sold out The Helix in November.
"It was an iconic role to embody, especially as the headliner.
"I was really looking forward to touring Ireland as Marilyn Monroe, but it just couldn’t go ahead given the circumstances.
"Everyone on the show was raging. I am not saying it will never go ahead again because you never know what is down the line."
Love Island isn't a staple part of Laura and Matthew's TV viewing this summer.
She said: "Matthew doesn’t watch any of it and I only watched an episode last week, so I don’t really know what is going on.
"The only person I care about is Catherine because she is from Dublin. You have to support the Irish."
Would she have done the show herself? "Yeah, without hesitation. I think everyone knows what you can get from it.
"If they had come looking for me when I was single I would have said yes. I am a person who never turns down an opportunity and, for me, everything is an experience and an adventure."
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