Do you feel famous yet?
M- It's a bit weird 'cos we don't feel famous, but it feels like everyone knows who we are!
N- I don't feel famous. When we're out on our own in town we don't get recognised much, especially when we're in England.
B- When you're really famous you have to wear a baseball cap everywhere - and people recognised you anyway!

Ever snogged anyone famous?
N- My girlf Georgina - the Prime Minister's daughter!
B- Kian snogged Nicky's sister and she's gonna be famous, if that counts?
N- She's a singer and a dancer and she'll be famous!

Have you been given any good freebies lately?
All- Dolce & Gabbana togs!
B- And Siemens mobile phones!

What did you have for dinner last night?
N- Chicken and chips.
B- I had buffalo wings and garlic chips which were really horrible. And a chocolate malt.

What celeb would you be nervous about meeting?
M- Mariah Carey.
B- Elvis! No, probably Michael Jackson. But I really want to meet Stevie Wonder, he's a legend!

Would you dump a girl if your mates didn't like her?
B- No way!
N- If I'd started going out with a girl and my mates were saying that they didn't like her, I'd try to convince them otherwise.
M- I'd try and find out the reasons for them not getting on.

Has your mum got any embarrassing pictures of you at home?
B- Oh stop! My Communion picture is on the mantelpiece, and I have no teeth at the front, and two days before I'd cut my own hair, so imagine what I looked like! To top it all, I'm wearing a dark blue pinstriped suit!
M- My mum's got a school photo of me, smack bang in the middle of the sitting room - and I've got this awful rash all over my face. It's horrible!

What're your fave crisps?
M- Salt and vinegar.
B- Me too!
N- Listen to this. You know there's Cheese & Owen and Salt & Linekar flavours? Well, I think that we should get onto Walkers and start up a Smokey Beckham flavour heh, heh!

Got any pics on your bedroom walls?
M- Well, I used to have loads, but I took them down when my room was decorated and never put them back up.
B- My bedroom's just been redone 'cos I don't really live in it anymore. I used to have pictures of Pamela Anderson and Backstreet Boys. I had one of BSB live in concert, I used to stare at it and think how much I wanted to be in a band!

Do you have any female friends?
N- I've loads of female friends, but I don't think a fella can have a best friend who's a girl.
M- I think it can happen.
N- It can, but not without either the guy or girl wanting to be with the other.
M- I grew up with Avril and we never looked at each other like that.
N- No, it just can't happen! I've loads of female friends, but none you could have intimate talks with.
B- With your best friend you do have a love bond, and you can't have that with a girl 'cos you just want to snog them!

Do you still get nervous doing telly interviews?
M- Every now and then.
N- I get more nervous doing interviews on Irish tv, 'cos you know all your friends and family will be watching.
B- When we do tv in Europe, we know nobody we know will be watching, so it's easier!

When did you last ask for a girl's number?
M- I've never asked for a girl's number!
B- I never go 'here's my number' 'cos you end up getting a slap!

Ever been in trouble with the police?
M- Yeah, I was going too fast in my car!
B- Tell the truth, the real reason he was pulled over 'cos his lights weren't working!
N- Remember when you were on the way to Dublin to do a tv show and the police pulled you over and you said you were in a band and they let you go!
M- I never said I was in a band!
B- We don't ever say we're in a band, like if we're chatting up girls or something. We say we're builders!
N- Aaaaah, Kian's the worst for that!
B- Whenever we go out he's all like (puts on a smarmy voice) 'Hi, I'm in Westlife' ha, ha!
N- I never say I'm in a band. If they recognise you, they recognise you. One night me, Bryan and six friends went clubbing and we got knocked back from three places!
B- The people we were with said we should tell them, but we couldn't.
N- It was two am!
B- Another time, we were stopped from going in and there were loads of girls around us asking for autographs, so we were signing away and we were like 'Can we come in, please?' Eventually they let us in!

What's you fave Boyzone lyric?
B- 'I love the way you love me'.
N- 'This is where I belong, this is where I come from'. It's on their album and it's a great lyric!
M- 'You're all that I need'.

Where you're out with your mates, do you feel obliged to buy the drinks?
M- I don't usually get the chance - they get them in 'cos I've usually been away for such a long time...
N- You do feel they expect you to be loaded, so you buy the first round, but they'll always buy a round back. They don't expect you to buy them all night.
B- There was an article in the paper in Ireland a while back saying 'Westlife are broke and don't have a penny to their names'. It'll be grand when we go home now, 'cos they'll be buying us all the drinks! (Laughs)

Do you get on with your brothers and sisters?
N- I've got an older sister and a younger brother. I get on really, really well with my sister and my brother as well. Even though he's only nine.
B- He's absolutely beautiful!

If you had an argument with Ronan about a band thing, would you stand up for yourselves?
M- Definitely, because he makes us feel that's what we should do. He makes us feel so comfortable that we'd never be worried about asking him for advice. And if we think he's wrong, we'd say.
N- He always says things like, 'Give me some feedback. Do you think I'm wrong?' And he'll say, 'Well this is what I would do, but it's up to you lads!' Obviously we're gonna listen to him and we usually end up agreeing with him, 'cos it's pretty safe to say that he knows what he's talking about!
B- I remember one time when he showed us some clothes and we pretended to like them when we really didn't. He could see from our faces that we weren't keen and he was like 'I've told you before to say what you think!' So now we always do!

DARE!
Alright lads. Quite frankly, we'd like to see you do an Irish jig! B- We can really do it!
M- We're all classically trained jiggers you know!
N- Alright lads - places please, and lets begin! (and with that the 'Lifer's twirl, pivot and wave their legs about in such a wild and frantic fashion that the TV HITS team actually begin to fear for their lives!)

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