Amy Huberman shares wild way Brian O'Driscoll tracked her down before they met
The mum-of-three said that Brian's interest began when he spotted her on Tubridy's old chat show Tubridy Tonight while he was recovering from an injury.
She revealed how the former Ireland captain initially thought she was a 'hermit' because he had never seen her around town before.
She said: 'Brian was injured and at home watching [Tubridy Tonight] when I was on. He was like 'Is she a hermit? I don't know who she is,' so he rang Joanne Byrne [a celebrity agent], and she got us together.'
After a few days away with her actress pal Norma Sheehan and Joanne, Joanne sprung a surprise meeting of the two in the Merrion Hotel by saying she needed to drop off a book so that Brian could meet Amy.
Dressed in her trackies at the time, Amy recalled: 'Brian is shy, and he had a full-blown crisis. He was saying, 'This feels wild, she's the only one who doesn't know what's going on!''
The Dubliner said that 'he was afraid [it would be creepy] but I think it was quite sweet.'
Amy was speaking on the latest episode of The Bookshelf with Ryan Tubridy where she also shared a story with the host about reading an early draft of Brian's autobiography and giving him some editorial feedback.
'There was a bit where they had just won the Heineken Cup,' she said, 'and it was very just like, 'and then we won the Heineken Cup.' And I was like, hang on a sec! I wanna know how everyone felt. That's the event! I need to know all the feelings… because they had been trying [so hard] to do it.'
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