Fights with Five, Boyzone rip-offs & laydeez - Westlife
are hardly out of the papers.We got the boys to set some
of the weirder rumours straight...
Mark: I'm going solo! Could 'the quiet one' be planning a bid for solo stardom?
Mark Feehily,member of top Irish pop combo, Westlife,
shoched his loyal fans today by announcing he was
quitting the band...
"The band can't last forever,it has to end some time and I'd love to think
I had enough talent to bring in crowds on my own.But I'd never consider
leaving the band.If the band split then of course I'd consider going solo,
but at the moment we're a team, and whether things are going well or badly
you have to stick together.
At the same time, I don't think there's anything wrong with solo singles like Ronan
and the Spice Girls have done and maybe in a few years time I'd be interested in
collaborating with other people.I'd love to work with Mariah Carey or Left Eye TLC
because I love women rappers.It wouldn't be a typical Westlife ballad with some rap over the top though,I'd go for something different.
I'd love to do a gig on my own.If it was charity gig I'd do it straight away, for nothing. When I'm on stage I just totally lose my shyness so it wouldn't be a problem.I wouldn't say i've got an ambition to perform solo because I'm totally happy at the moment, but it would be nice to find out if I'm talented enough to do a whole show on my own. Maybe after Westlife.
I've been lucky with the papers 'cos I haven't had any bad stories about me. Bryan's come off the worst. I feel really sorry for him."
Kian: My £1,000,000 haircare bill. Flicked-haired heartthrob in 'vain' accusation shocker!
Westlife's record label could be forced out of business- by one of their
artist's haircase bills. Kian Egan, 20...
"I don't care about my hair that much, you're just taking the mick out of me!
OK, I admit,when the band started I used to be quite obsessed.My hair
was longer and I used to get little spots on my forehead so I was always
trying to cover them.All of us in Westlife are as vain as each other, but I think
if you looked at other bands you'd see they're far worse than us!
Sometimes you can have a funny story, like everyone going on about my hair,
and it's just a laugh, but then I worry that the people reading the stories don't realise
it's a joke.I've had one bad story written about me, an ex-girlfriend sold a story to the
News Of The World and about 60% of it was lies. When I saw the paper for the first time, I nearly died.It was on the front page in Ireland, and a month later, in England so I had to put up with it twice!It affected me a lot the first time, but it was just annoying the second time around.
I don't have as hard a time in the papers as Bryan though.poor Bryan gets rumours thrown at him 24 hours a day, seven days a week.He may have done one or two little things at the beginning that were blown out of proportion, but then people just started picking on him straight away and it's continued and continued."