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Nicky Byrne: 'Liam Gallagher Told Me To F**k Off When I Met Him'












They have sold 40million albums and this week are on course to notch up their seventh No1 album with new release Back Home.

But Westlife heart-throb Nicky Byrne insists it is their boss who is the real star — a certain Simon Cowell.

In an exclusive interview Nicky, 29, told me: “Simon is bigger than Brad Pitt in America. Ever since he started American Idol he’s become a megastar.

With 14 UK No1 singles, the boys are behind only Elvis and The Beatles for chart-topping successes — a record they have every chance of beating.

And they are still going strong after ten years, an incredible achievement in the fickle pop world.
In the past I’ve made no secret of the fact I’m not a fan of the cheesy cover songs they’ve put out.

Last year I launched a campaign to “Stop The Cocks” beating Oasis in the album charts, in reference to Oasis’ greatest hits album Stop The Clocks.

Needless to say Westlife’s army of fans bought The Love Album by the bucketload, beating Oasis hands down and forcing me to concede defeat.

But Nicky reckons, despite the knocking the lads sometimes take, he’d never want to swap lives with Oasis’ wildman Liam Gallagher.

He explained: “I love Oasis, they are proper musicians and songwriters and I’m a fan of their music.

“But I’d never want to be Liam — I could never be as obnoxious as him and I couldn’t lead his lifestyle.

“I met him once. We’d only just started out and we assumed all pop and rock stars would be nice to each other. We were naive.

"We were at the opening of a Tommy Hilfiger store in London and we saw Liam and said, ‘We’re from Westlife, Ronan Keating’s new band’.

“He looked at us, and just went, ‘F*** off’. Nowadays I’d probably give something back but I was just left speechless.”

But the lads could get one over on the likes of Liam by going on for years to come.

Click here to read the full interview

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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