When Love Island voice-over funnyman Iain Stirling met TV presenter Laura Whitmore at an ITV party in 2016, their connection was said to have been immediate.
But despite sources claiming they 'hit it of instantly', for months Iain, 32, only slid into her DMs with chaste talk about her pet maltipoo Mick.
In fact, it ended up being down to Laura, 35, to make the first move. "When we first met he didn’t even hit on me, he was too nervous to hit on me!
I think he was intimidated by me. I remember Iain was too scared to ask me out so in the end I had to ask him out," she told JD's In The Duffle Bag podcast. "He used to send me random messages, DM me and ask me about my dog.
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