Double Bay rumours that Stu Laundy and Kristin Fisher are dating

Tongues are wagging in Sydney’s gossipy eastern suburbs, but a rumoured new couple insist there is nothing to see here.

Publican Stu Laundy and eyebrow queen Kristin Fisher have hosed down suggestions they are a hot new couple.

The Double Bay rumour mill suggested otherwise earlier this week, with Confidential contacted by a number of sources claiming the pair were dating.

One said they used to be an item several years ago. When contacted though, both denied the romance rumour.

Publican Stu Laundy at the QT Hotel in Bondi.

Kristin Fisher pictured in Double Bay. Picture: Toby Zerna

“I always hang out with Kristin. I love her, she is a great girl,” Laundy told Confidential. “We love hanging out but are just great buddies.”

Fisher equally denied the suggestion.

“We aren’t dating,” she texted. “I’d say if I was.”

It is understood Laundy has been a strong support for Fisher during her recent financial woes, even lending her money when times were tough.

Fisher is a well-known Eastern Suburbs socialite identity, who has two children from a previous marriage and has been romantically linked in the past to Michael Clarke.

Laundy became known nationally when he won Sophie Monk’s season of The Bachelorette in 2017.

Sophie Monk and Bachelorette winner Stu Laundy. Picture: Justin Lloyd.

The pair broke up not long after production wrapped. He has been linked to a string of beautiful women, among them reality star Megan Marx and Carys Courtney (ex-wife of Supercars driver James Courtney).

The Daily Telegraph in January revealed Fisher had made an eye-raising deal to clear nearly $1 million in debts for just $100,000, avoid liquidation and keep on trading.

Kristin Fisher. Picture: Instagram

Stu Laundy.

A deed of company arrangement (DOCA) was agreed in the week between Christmas and New Year that will see unsecured creditors of her Double Bay-based salon receive between six and nine cents in each dollar owed.

The DOCA won the support of the largest creditor, the Australian Taxation Office, despite the terms being less favourable to the ATO than an earlier offer.

Five days before Christmas, administrator Jeremy Nipps of Cor Cordis filed a 101-page report with the corporate regulator that recommended creditors accept a DOCA over liquidation. Winding up the business would see creditors get nothing, he said. A DOCA offered the prospect of receiving between 6.22 and 8.82 per cent of the $932,000 owed. About $915,000 of that debt was to the ATO.

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