Derry Girls star announces engagement after whirlwind romance
Derry Girls actress Saoirse-Monica Jackson has announced she is engaged to her DJ boyfriend.
The TV star, who is known for playing Erin Quinn in the hit Channel 4 series, shared her happy news with her followers. She is engaged to Scottish DJ Denis Sulta and announced the news by posting an image from her fiance's recent interview with a music magazine. In the interview, Denis was asked what his favourite memory from 2023 was.
In response to the question, the DJ revealed he is engaged to Saoirse-Monica. While the Derry Girls actress hasn't shared her own announcement, she took to Instagram to confirm to happy news with a snap of Denis' comments. She added a string of heart emojis to the screenshot from Metal magazine.
Saoirse-Monica has confirmed her engagement to Scottish DJ Denis Sulta
The couple shocked fans when they announced their relationshipBack in 2022, the Northern Irish star stunned her fans with her relationship to Denis after they rumbled her under-the-radar romance. The couple went public with their relationship in September 2021, going Instagram official with their loved-up status. Some devoted Derry Girls’ fans had no idea who she was dating, and were left shocked by their under wraps dating history.
“There are some random celebrity couples out there but Denis Sulta and Erin from Derry Girls takes the cake,” the viral tweet read, prompting plenty of confused replies from Saoirse-Monica’s fans. “My head is gone. Why did I not know this,” one replied, as another added: “Wait what??” “How did I not know this?? Wtf,” one baffled fan asked. “Hahahahahah why did I never know this,” another tweeted, while one agreed: “Hahahah what in the world.”
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Denis - real name Hector Barbour - has been dubbed a "prodigal producer" by industry critics, and joined BBC Radio 1’s Residency show alongside Jayda G, HAAi, and Charlotte de Witte. Saoirse-Monica and Denis made their love public with a sweet picture shared on social media but many thought the snap was an engagement because Denis was on one knee.
Saoirse-Monica shared the happy news on her Instagram story
Saoirse-Monica played Erin in Derry Girls“DISCLAIMER - NOOOOO.... This is not an engagement photo people He just had a long day on his feet,” she added in the comments. The actress was born in Derry, which is obviously where the much-loved Channel 4 sitcom is set and based on writer Lisa McGee's childhood growing up during The Troubles in the 1990s
Her parents owned a village pub and she trained in acting at the Arden School of Theatre in Manchester. The actress made her TV debut in 2016 as Sasha in Harlan Coben's The Five, appeared in BBC One drama Broken the following year and has performed on the West End. Saoirse-Monica got her big break when she was cast as Erin in Derry Girls, which first aired on Channel 4 back in January 2018.
"Well obviously it’s Lisa McGee’s story but being from Derry myself, I’m extremely proud of the show and where I’m from," she said on The One Show in 2019. "I definitely never expected to work with my own accent, never mind do a show where I’m from. It’s a dream come true. Unlike Lisa McGee I didn’t have a dream that big, so it’s amazing."
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