Heartbreak High star reveals wedding plans
Heartbreak High star Chloe Hayden has roped-in an unexpected wedding planner for her forthcoming nuptials.
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Aussie Chloe Hayden has roped-in an unexpected wedding planner for her forthcoming wedding.
Having recently announced her engagement to partner Dylan Rohan, Hayden has been busy filming the second season of Heartbreak High and hasn’t had time to begin planning the big day.
“My mum’s my low-key wedding planner,” Hayden tells the latest issue of Marie Claire Australia magazine, in stores Thursday.
“And I have the most incredible PA, who is just on the ball with everything. So we’ve kind of come up with themes and basic ideas, and I’m like, ‘You go do something and then when it’s A or B, I could choose from that.’”
Hayden, 26, is a rising star of the Australian screen, having recently been nominated for the Most Popular New Talent Logie Award.
She is one of the breakout successes from hit Netflix show Heartbreak High, a reimagining of the original 90s series, that has blown up internationally.
Hayden announced her engagement on social media last year, and the couple have since bought their first home together.
On the set of Hayden’s cover shoot for the magazine, the couple shared a sweet moment as the soon-to-be-bride said that “marriage means I get to spend forever with my best friend”.
“And build a future together,” Rohan chimed in as the two shared a smile.
Hayden spoke of the couple’s first date, which was interrupted by Louis Tomlinson’s Australian tour.
“Dylan had made this beautiful picnic down by the river and halfway through I’m like ‘Look, this is great but I need to buy Louis Tomlinson tickets’,” she told the magazine. “And he was so fine with it, but I was sitting there on Ticketmaster freaking out. I was just like a little Gremlin trying to get these tickets on our first date. I got the best tickets I could and then I went, ‘Anyway, where are we?’” she laughed.
Off the back of Heartbreak High, Hayden has become somewhat of a multimedia star with her own podcast, ‘Boldly Me’ on Nova, her best selling book, ‘Different, Not Less’, and her work as an advocate for inclusion and diversity.
Being diagnosed with autism when she was 13-years-old, the actor has since become a voice for the community.
Representing an entire community, she explained, can come with its share of pressures, with some telling Hayden that she can only speak for herself.
On the flip side, Hayden’s portrayal of Quinni – an autistic teenager with a love for fantasy books – on Heartbreak High has garnered a hugely positive response.
“I agree, I can only talk for myself. I can only speak from my own experience,” she said.
“But the amount of messages I’ve received saying, ‘I got my autism diagnosis after watching Heartbreak High’, or ‘I’m starting to openly stim (short for self-stimulating behaviour) more often watching your videos’, or ‘I understand myself now and my family understands me now’, makes it a lot easier to ignore the negative voices.”
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