Tough one, guys.. clever Claire wants a MAN

Sunday Mirror, Jun 15, 2008 by STEPHEN MAGUIRE

BRAINY beauty Claire Tully may be the stuff of dreams for most Irish blokes - but the busty boffin has admitted she just can't get a boyfriend.

The stunning blonde, who broke up with her long-term boyfriend last year, says not even her stunning figure can help her score.

"You know what, if I go out with my friends to a nightclub or something they will always get asked out and I never get asked out.

Never... I'm serious," she said.

Claire, 23, from Blanchardstown, west Dublin, posed for lad's mag FHM but admitted she would never take off ALL her clothes.

"I'd never go any further than Page Three glamour stuff. I wouldn't do full frontal nudity.

"That's for your boyfriend or your husband. But I'm single, so..." she said.

Despite claims by some she is jumping on the bandwagon, Claire is an out and out Sunderland FC fan.

And even though she thinks home-grown soccer star Andy Reid is cuddly, it's Jonny Evans she really has the hots for.

But Claire, the Trinity College science graduate who got a maximum of 600 points in her Leaving Cert, said she doesn't want to be a WAG.

"I'd never be a WAG. I'd be Claire," she insisted.

Claire, who works for herself, has made sure she is independent and has her own money.

She added: "You see these girls who are all like, 'Yeah I wanna be a WAG'.

Do girls really think that footballers have a glamorous lifestyle?

"I'm sure they have to train every single day and go to the gym. I don't know what girls actually think they do. They read too many magazines I think." Claire has been offered a research post at Oxford University in Britain said she simply focuses on living for every day - after almost dying when she was just 17.

She said: "We never found out what was wrong with me and put it down to a virus, but I was like, 'Nobody knows what's wrong with me and I'm going to die when I'm only 17'.

"I think it was definitely an experience that completely changed me. It was just absolutely terrible. You never forget it.

"I see people arguing over things like money and material things that are just not valuable. Seriously, the minute you're sick everything else just doesn't matter."