The entire country was watching Kellie Harrington create history in Paris but her wife Mandy Loughlin can’t bear to watch.
Mandy said she gets too nervous when Kellie gets inside the ring, so prefers to simply look away.
Both women are Dubliners but while the Harrington is a proud northsider from Portland Row, Mandy is from Foxrock.
They have been together since 2009 after meeting through boxing as Mandy also competed at a high level before hanging up her gloves.
She still teaches boxercise classes for work so they’re both lifelong fans of the sport.
Despite being a veteran of the sport, Mandy prefers not to watch Kellie’s fights as she finds it too nerve-racking.
Speaking to The Irish Sun ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, she said: ‘I won’t be watching any of the fights.
‘I’ll be holding the phone in anxiety texting everybody to see how she’s getting on.
‘I can’t watch when she fights at all. I’ll be glued to my phone and I’ll have a few people who will text me updates.
‘I haven’t watched a fight in a long long time.’
Kellie Harrington’s Married Life
They haven’t ruled out starting a family, with Kellie saying: ‘Who knows? If they [children] come, bless them, they’ll come,’ she said to the Irish Mirror.
Special guests on the big day were her and Mandy’s French bulldog Nidge and staffie Maisie.
Explaining the unique wedding guests, Kellie said: ‘It wouldn’t be your special day if you didn’t have your fur babies there.
‘They’re family and I prefer to be surrounded by my fur babies who are 100% loyal, unless I’m holding a bit of ham or chicken. We were both delighted that we could have them there.’
Kellie Harrington’s Home Life
The two women took a major step together when they bought their first house in north Dublin a short time after getting hitched but it wasn’t easy.
‘It’s nearly made impossible for young people to get a foot on that property ladder.
‘I think I’m nearly sorted but it’s been hard. The properties around the city that nobody wanted before, now everybody wants them.
‘This is where we’re from and we can’t purchase a property where we’re from, we can’t move back into the area.
‘Times are really s**t for everybody and the housing crisis just seems to be absolutely atrocious and I feel awful for people who are bending over backwards working and trying to build up enough to get up a mortgage. It’s just terrible.
‘I can understand why they want their own home because if they have kids, they don’t want their kids to be in the same position that they were in.
‘People ask, ‘Why not just rent?’ But why would you rent when you’re spending more on that than you would on a mortgage? Once you have a mortgage, you have something to pass down to your kids, to take the burden off them.’
In June, Harrington gave fans a behind-the-scenes look at her newly refurbished house – showing off a stunning transformation.
The proud home owner shared a video on Instagram, giving her almost 63,000 followers a virtual tour.
She said: ‘A vision that took time, a vision many said I was mad for having, but a vision I am glad we stuck with making it a reality
‘Really looking forward to making many great memories with @mandypandie_pie after the Olympic Games.
‘Home is wherever and what you make it’.
Harrington’s Home Makeover
The culmination of the renovation works was stunning, with black-and-white checker pattern tiling and a pink-painted front door, while the exterior was changed to bare brick. The video also zoomed in on her post-box, which brandished an Olympics logo - reflecting the Dubliner having won a gold medal in Tokyo.
