A year on, Danny has a new 'special someone'

SCRIPT singer Danny O'Donoghue has revealed he is no longer lovelorn and is dating 'a special someone'.

The Voice UK star previously spoke of his 'heartache' after his split from ex-girlfriend Irma Mali.

However, in a frank interview with the Irish Daily Mail, he said: 'I get so engrossed in what I do, there hasn't really been that much room for anybody else - but I am now dating a special someone.' During the first series of the BBC1 reality show last year, O'Donoghue broke up with the Lithuanian model in controversial circumstances. Towards the end of the first series of The Voice UK last May, rumours abounded that Danny was having an affair with Bo Bruce, the aristocratic contestant he was mentoring.

Bo - whose real name is Lady Catherine Anna Brudenell-Bruce - is the daughter of Britain's Earl of Cardigan, from whom she is estranged.

Viewers saw Danny take on a protective role during filming and rumours of a romance were fuelled when the pair performed a passionate duet.

They were also photographed together in public. 'I didn't deny or confirm the speculation,' Danny said. 'I found it funny. By not saying anything, it created its own buzz. I thought I'd use it, and help Bo get publicity.' The Dublin singer had recently set out a few requirements for a possible suitor - they need to be secure in her own skin, and preferably be covered in tattoos.

The 32-year-old said previously of his four-year relationship with Ms Mali: 'I just got out of a long-distance relationship and, although I'm not with that person now, that comes with its own heartache.' The Man Who Can't Be Moved singer said he could no longer handle a woman who did not trust him. 'It's hard to keep a woman's mind at ease when you're away and she thinks you're always out at a party,' he said. 'I tend to not go for insecure women.' As well as his new secret romance, it has been an eventful year for O'Donoghue, who played for Queen Elizabeth with his band at her request. He also mentored this year's Voice UK winner, the partially-sighted Co. Tyrone singer Andrea Begley. But despite his success, the Dublin heartthrob has opted to leave the show, like fellow mentor Jessie J, and return to the fold with his Script bandmates Mark Sheehan and Glen Power.

With no regrets in doing the show, which lost its ratings battle with Britain's Got Talent, O'Donoghue said: 'We [The Script] brought ourselves to a much wider audience by me doing the show.

'I don't go for insecure women'

Source: Dublin Weekender / Edited: DannyODonoghue.Net