You've been waiting too long! The newly re-named Westlife finally have their first single out next month. Here's your essential guide to the boys- one by on.
What's he like?
Kian is the mischievous element of Westlife. "I'm the cheeky one,"
he says helpfully. "I'm not complaining if people want to call me
sexy."
He loves his aftershave and his favorite are Jean-Pual Gaultier,
Polo Sport and Joop - "Anything that will make a girl come and
ask me 'what's that?' I'm not shy." He's obsessed with clothes
and lays his outfits on his bed before he goes out. "If I walk out
the door not feeling good, I go back and get changed," Kian's also
a bit of a Romeo. "I've been out with about 30 girls, but I've only
had two serious relationships - no, three. One girl's just been
upgraded."
At the moment, he's single, but he doesn't want to be the way for
long. "I'd love to have a girlfriend because it gets very lonely be-
ing away from home. I think about girls every minute of the day."
He used to compete with Bryan for the ladyees, "but now we
team up - like Batman and Robin! " Saucy!
So what kind of life does Kian lead?
A love life!
What's he like?
Nicky used to be a goalkeeper for Leeds. His two big idols were
former Leeds winger Lee Sharpe and Ronan Keating "so I've act-
ually got to work with both of my idols!" He prefers being a pop
atar with Westlife because "football wasn't really what I wanted.
This is everything I ever wanted."
He goes out with the Prime Minster of Ireland's daughter. "When
I first saw Georgina, I went back home to me ma and said, 'I saw
the girl for me!' But me mate asked her out for me, and she said
no. Then a year later, he asked her again and she said yes! "If we
ever split, I'll get Ronan to ask her out for me. She'd never say
no to him!" The croward.
Nicky is like Westlife's co-manager Ronan Keating. "We 'd love
to be as successful as Boyzone, and be the front cover of Smash
Hits."
"If I could be as huge as Ronan, that'd be great! I don't think
what happened with Boyzone - where two members get more
attention than the rest - will happen with us. There will always be
five of us."
So what kind of life does Nicky lead?
The highlife!
What's he like?
Shane is deep'n'quiet fella who used to write poetry when he was
ten "although I was never going to be the nezt W.B.Yeats" (a
famous Irish poet, in case you didn't know). He prays in bed every
night, asking that his family, friends and the rest of Westlife are
kept safe. He also goes to church every Sunday - "If I miss a
week, I feel very bad about it." Shane takes his job very seriously
and once "checked up for an hour" when he realised that he'd left
all his gear for that night's performance at a TV studio. "I though
my life was over," he remembers. He says that he won't get car-
ried away being a pop star. "We're not the types to think it's all
glamour." He believes that "You can succeed in whatever you're
happy with - never worry about too much unless you have to." But
does he believe in life after love?" Course I do. There's always
more fish in the sea."
So what kind of life does Shane want to lead?
A good life!
What's he like?
Mark is definitely the shyest member of Westlife - unless he's
singing. "Once I get to know somebody I'm all right, and if I'm up
on stage singing it's a lot, lot easier," he whispers.
"I'm not quiet with the other guys. Bryan and Kian are the loudest
in the band, I have to tell them to be quiet a lot. But I don't get
pushed around - I give just as good as I get." Mark's definitely a
home-lovin' type and nips back whenever he can. "I talk to my
parents on the phone every day," he murmurs. "I'm very close to
everybody back home in Sligo. The last person I said 'I love you'
to was my mother." He's also a bit frightened about being famous!
"It's a bit scary," he says softly, "but I'm ready for whatever
happens."
So what kind of life does Mark lead?
A quiet life!
What's he like?
The first time Bryan got drunk, he was sick everywhere after
drinking "cider and all sorts". The last time he showed his bum in
public was in Spain two years ago after his mates "stripped me
butt-naked and chucked me out the door." Nice!
He dresses up "like a spiv" when he goes out and once destroyed
a wardrobe door in a hotel when wrestling with the other boys -
"but we got away with it!" He used to be "plenty fat!" and reckons
the stupidest thing he's ever said was that he'd never be in a
biyband. Hee reckons he's calmed down since his antics on Smash
Hits tour - in fact, he's completely off the booze. "It doesn't
appeal to me anymore," he says. Even so, he's Westlife's danger
element - the Robbie of the band.
So what kind of life does Bryan lead?
A wild life!