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5th July 2019
05:42pm BST

3. I know some of the ‘dance moves’ from the Uptown Girl video. And I use them.
4. I have read both the official Westlife autobiography, Our Story, and Shane Filan’s My Side of Life.
5. A journalist friend once texted me from a pub at 2am to say he was with Westlife and I should come down and meet them. I didn’t go because my hair wasn’t washed. Clearly not an Uptown Girl.
6. I was in the same Billie Barry class as Brian McFadden and remember the day he was picked to go to the Westlife audition. I have told that story. A lot.
7. I bought the Seasons In The Sun CD single even though I already had the album. I used to try to claim artistic credibility for Westlife on the strength of that Jacques Brel cover. This was somewhat ruined by the fact that their version of I Have A Dream was the other track of the double A-side.
8. In college, I used to pump a friend from Sligo for information on Shane’s then-girlfriend-now-wife. That's how we stalked people before social media came about.
9. I sobbed in a pub in Australia because My Love was playing and it made me homesick. There may have been drink taken.
10. I was in a corporate box with a free bar for Westlife’s farewell gig at Croke Park and don’t remember ANY of the gig. There was definitely drink taken.Explore more on these topics:
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