Rugby ace Jordan Conroy has revealed he is single but unable to mingle after being banned from some of the popular dating apps.
The rugby sevens star, 28, shot to popularity on Irish TV screens earlier this year as a front runner on RTE’s Dancing with the Stars.
But as he went straight from the dance floor back to his old stomping ground - back training and playing full time - he says his love life has had to take a back seat.
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The Co Offaly native told the Irish Daily Mirror: “I’m very single, I was just too tired to be out in the dating scene after three months of dancing, and then you know, you're constantly going with rugby and everything.
“It's just like, it's very hard to, you know, put time into dating at the moment.
“Maybe when things calm down, I'll see but you know, I take life as it comes.”
Jordan, who finished as a finalist on RTE's dance programme in March, added: “I got banned from two of the apps Hinge and Tinder. I think I got reported for being a fake page.
“I think ever since that happened I was just kind of like you know what, it's probably for the better because, I mean, it's just a lot of effort.
“You match with someone and you're talking then the next day you have two more matches and it’s just like a constant reel …so I was just like I'll just not come back.”
Life after Dancing with the Stars has been a whirlwind says the sportsman, with offers coming in for modelling gigs and other social and entertainment jobs elsewhere.
“That’s the crazy side, I signed with Andrea Roches Agency and they've been absolutely amazing,” he told the Irish Daily Mirror.
“So I've been kind of getting a lot of like modelling work and everything, but it's just the timing of things.”
For now, he is balancing it alongside his career on the field.
But he said he hopes to give the world of entertainment and showbiz a go once the time comes for him to hang up his boots.
“With Rugby, I'm always away. And it's just like, it's annoying because I do want to kind of enter that bracket of not so much social media but more so like modelling, branding and clothes and everything. So it's, it's, it's there. And as you know, as I said, like the world's my oyster.
“So hopefully I can, you know, break into that slowly but surely it doesn't have to happen straight away. I know, it doesn't. But I'd love to be able to go into that.
“I've been trying to get into cooking, the clothes, etc. And like even with Erica [Cody], she's great. And she loves her fashion. So she's kind of like, I’d just love to be able to get into that for a while.”
“I try to kind of balance it right now. And then kind of as the rugby career comes down to an end I can devote more time to that, which would be ideal, but I still have kind of to break into it."
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