Social media star Suzanne Jackson has her sights set on Dancing With The Stars to put her skills to the test.
The newly-married beauty and fashion blogger– also known as SoSueMe – said she was hooked on the RTE programme last year and would love to give it a go.
Suzanne told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “I loved watching the show, I Irish danced for 17 years, that’s why we had Irish dancing at our wedding.”
Suzanne married Dylan O’Connor in Skerries in August before holding the lavish reception in The Powerscourt Hotel Wicklow.
She said: “That one Riverdance song always gets the shoes tapping, it blows me away, the dancers were amazing on our wedding day.”
The Dubliner, who started her blog seven years ago and boasts 300,000 Facebook followers, has been approached to feature on TV shows in the past but insisted the right one hasn’t come along.
She said: “I’ll never say never but right now it’s not really something I’m interested in.
“I feel like I’m on a TV show with my own blog, I’m constantly on Snapchat and Instagram talking to my followers.
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“I feel like I’m communicating and updating my followers enough now if the right TV show came along like the jungle I’d love that or Strictly or Dancing With The Stars I’d love to give it a go.”
The 32-year-old told how there are days when she wants to throw in the towel when keyboard warriors are cruel.
She said: “Sometimes people forget that it took hard work, often people think you’re handed these things on a plate.
“I’ve worked my absolute socks off to get to this point, I pour my heart and soul into everything I do. Nothing comes easy and success doesn’t come if you’re not willing to work hard.
“My followers and my husband Dylan have been the backbone, there’s days you want to throw the towel in when you get a bit of hate and comments and awful things said about you.
“There are days you say why should I even bother, I’m not doing anything to hurt anybody, what’s with all the hate? But then you have to say to yourself for every one bad comment there are hundreds of positives.
“Some days you might be having an off day where I might have had a fight with Dylan, you might not be feeling yourself.
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“And then you have to deal with some negativity under one of your pictures, you can’t let it get to you.
“It’s not very regularly that I get it but when you’re in the public eye you’re going to get it. I can never fathom why someone would even waste their time, so I actually feel sorry for these types of people.
“They need to re-evaluate their lives and ask themselves what got them to this point that they’re writing these awful things.”
The star blogger told how her business is not for the faint-hearted.
She said: “For what we have to deal with online, for anyone who might suffer with anxiety I can only imagine it would set your anxiety levels off into another world. There are people that can’t handle the pressure of the limelight.” Suzanne is a co-director of SanFran Limited with businessman Fran O’Gorman of distribution company Sundrelle and the blogger’s earnings for 2016 were reportedly €536,650.
Despite Suzanne’s make-up palettes and eyelashes proving to be a huge earner, the entrepreneur insisted she never started blogging for the money.
She said: “Obviously business is good and I work hard but I never started in the industry to be loaded. I just started something that’s a passion and I grew it. I’ve been fortunate but none of that matters to me, it’s passion and drive and ticking goals off my list that’s the driving power.”
For Suzanne one of the downsides to her huge success is she can never switch off.
She added: “There are days like that when you want to shut yourself off from the world but I can’t, I am SoSueMe, people recognise me and I’ll never let my bad day cause me to be rude to somebody.”