"Is there a new Geek on the Block? No, the nerdy guy pictured at left is actually one of the original New Kids-before he set out on the road to stardom. Behind that Alfalfa-like hairdo, heavy braces and thick-rimmed glasses, is none other than Joe McIntyre-the Kids' youngest star.
Today he's an 18-year-old singing sensation, but back when he was 12, McIntyre was every teenage girl's worst nightmare: the nerd next door!"And here are the pictures that were featured along with this story.
"At 12, squinty-eyed geek Joe McIntyre sported a mouthful of heavy metal."
"At 18, he's a cute, cuddly, rich New Kid..."
And who could forget when News Extra's Feb 26, 1991 issue wrote a story about Jordan wanting to have a sex change!!!
New Kid wants to be a girl!"A New Kid on the Block wants to become a New Girl on the Block.
Lead singer Jordan Knight, 20, has informed bandmates that he's going to undergo a sex change as soon as possible.
"Jordan has been thinking about this for several years," says a close friend of the teen idol. He's always been a very delicate and sensitive person, unsure of his sexual identity....the others really flipped out when he told them...especialy Donnie Wahlberg, who had to be restrained from attacking Jordan.
Knight was so disturbed..he went and sought psychiatric help. The psychaitrist told him:'Somewhere inside you lurks a woman. You have to allow that woman to come out and express herself."
Here is one of the pictures featured with this article.
"Effeminate Jordan told pal there's a woman trapped inside him - and he has to let her out or go crazy."
Jordan was pretty popular in those days..here's another story about Jordan in the Globe January 29, 1991
New Kid Slugged Helpless Girl the his goon beat Me Silly"Pretty boy Jordan Knight punched a woman in an exlusive Atlanta nightclub and knoced her to the floor..."
The woman Renea Akins of Atlanta, has yet to file a complaint...Renea, a tall, striking redhead, approached Jordan for an autograph..."
"....A club employee watched a lot of girls crowd around the singer after he entered the club with two bodyguards. They weren't pushing or anything - they were just going up to him to say "hello"...but he got real ugly.
'Get away from me, you bitches,' he shouted at the girls,...F--- you all!' And then he grabbed this one brunette by the face and practically threw her across the room...Renea has declined to discuss the incident - but a friend says she stil has nightmares about the way he hit her" Jordan denies that he ever struck Renea...."
"Jordan roughed up several girls, says one witness"
Here's one story I'm sure that all fans will remember...I got this inserp from my local newspaper...my cutout wasn't dated.
Donnie Wahlberg charged with first-degree arson"New Kids on the Block lead singer Donnie Wahlberg was charged with first-degree arson Wednesday in a fire at the hotel room where he and the rock group were staying.
Fire chief Russell Sanders said Wahlberg allegedly poured a flammable liquid on a rug on the ninth floor of the historic Seelbach Hotel and set it on fire. There ware no injuries and no major damage. Wahlberg was later freed on $100,000 cash bond."
The next one was one of my favourites from the Globe December 25, 1990...it would be really funny if the girl involved was reading this right now....
New Kids on the Block used Me as their Kinky Sex Slave"Sex, booze and kinky all-night orgies with their teeny-bopper fans. That's the shocking and sordid truth behind the squeaky clean image of the New Kids on the Block, a GLOBE investigation has revealed.
"I had sex with three of the five New Kids...they passed me around until I was thrown away."
"....Melissa said that she and a girlfriend hung around after the Austin concert in the hopes of somehow meeting the Kids...Uncle Rob the wardrobe guy, said he would tell us where the new Kids were if he could take pictures of me in my lacy bra and my pantyhose. I wanted to meet them so bad that I let him do it."
"I went with him (Robo) to room 835....Jordan laid my head in his lap and rubbed my hair. I felt weak and petrified. Suddenly, Donnie came in...he made a crude comment about the size of my breasts...we drank...then Jordan lay down on the bed with his hands behind his head and said: 'I need a massage!' I started massaging his back...Jordan took my hands and inched them down. Then he wanted me to perform oral sex.
When Jordan was finished, Robo came back into the room and said: 'Donnie wants to see you'...two doors down the hall...Donnie was in bed...we talked about music...then he said:'Oh, I need a massage."..I was massaging and then he rolled over...he asked me did I 'do' Jordan...then I had oral sex with Donnie.
...Robo took Melissa to his room, where her girlfriend had been waiting....the three of them spent the night sleeping in Robo's bed...
In the morning...Robo took Melissa to Danny Wood's room..the one she had wanted to see all along...he didn't offer me anything...I burst into tears..can I just have your autograph?...So he looked up and said: 'First you've got to show me those big boobs of yours!'...and then I had sex with him, too..oral sex..The story goes on about a threesome with Donnie and his brother Jimbo...here are some photos that accompanied that story...
"Jordan Knight is "like a little mini-god," says former groupie Melissa Cantu. During lovemaking, "I was like a puppet. There was no emotion, no tenderness," she says
"Party animal Donnie Wahlberg cuddles Melissa in his hotel room. She says she was summoned to his bed for a sleazy session of lovemaking after a tryst with Jordan."