Dancing with the Stars’ finalist Cliona Hagan told how she shed a stone on the hit show after gruelling rehearsals "kicked my ass into shape".
The Tyrone country crooner said she has ditched junk food in an effort to keep her dancer shape.
“I try to go running every day and I’ve cut out the crisps and the chocolate and I feel much better, please God I can keep the weight off,” she told the Irish Mirror.
“Because the dancing kicked my ass to get into shape, I lost about a stone but I want to keep fit now.”
The 30-year-old danced her way into the hearts of the nation after getting to the final of the RTE dance contest last March.
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Hagan admitted some four weeks after the final and she still misses Dancing with the Stars.
She said: “You get consumed in that world of dance and it becomes everything to you.
“We were practicing for about six months, once you get out of that bubble it’s a hard pill to swallow.
The singer said she has yet to find love and will be on the look out on the Late Late Country music special on Friday night.
She said: “My Prince Charming hasn’t come my way yet but I’m still holding out.
“I’d love to meet a man at the Late Late special this week.”
She quipped: “I’m all by myself, nobody will take me.”
Hagan said she will be appearing on the show with fellow country star Nathan Carter.
She added: “Nathan will be on the show too and we’re just really good friends.”
The beauty will be joined by country music greats on Friday including Philomena Begley, Mike Denver and Daniel O’Donnell.
The star told how Daniel and his wife Majella supported her all the way on herquest to win the glitterball trophy.
She said: “I’ve been on the scene for three years and throughout my time on Dancing with the Stars Daniel and Majella did so much promotion for me.
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“Daniel is a gent, the best advice he gave me was people don’t realise how toughthe Dancing is as he knew first hand after his appearance on the UK’s Strictly Come Dancing.
“He told me to soak up every minute of my career because it goes by so quickly.”
Asked whether she would follow in his TV star footsteps, she admitted she dipped her toe in the water of presenting and blagged her way through it.
“A few years ago the presenter of a rally showcouldn’t make it and Mick Bracken from On the Limit Sportsasked me to present the Letterkenny Rally.
“Jesus Christ talk about a laugh, I made an idiot out of myself I knew nothing about petrol heads.
“But it was great craic, I don’t take myself too seriously.”
