comes from the Sun, who proudly announce that Mark Feehily is gay. Yup, think the cats, mice, and other assorted animals in the street already knew that[1]
But, as Ronan would say “Fair play. Its all water under the fridge” considering that Westlife have, well, lets just say, passed their prime
Linknotes:
- – from the phrase “the dogs in the street know” meaning something that is commonly known to everyone. I googled the phrase to try an provide my readers with a witty, or at least well thought out explanation, but to no avail. Anyone know of one online? ↩
Didn't someone else from Westlife come out as gay earlier? Or am I getting mixed up with Boyzone? Could never really tell them apart – two sets of pretty boys, same kind of cover-version music! ;)
Boyzone. That was Stephen Gately, think he's living in Holland now. Might be wrong.
sry – never heard that saying, nor of westlife for that matter – and though you've given up on blogger, fence, i'm glad to see you haven't given up on commenting!
I wouldn't really expect many people outside Irl & Brit to have heard of Westlife. I know Boyzone were on the radio when I was in Greece, were Westlife huge round various parts of Europe too?
Anyways. Westlife are/were (they haven't officially ended yet) a boyband. Three members from Sligo, one even has a house down the road from NM. My little sister's a fan, she is nine though
Boyzone were like the Irish equivalent of Backstreet Boys, New Kids On The Block etc. Had countless number 1 hits, countless screaming teenage fans, all were good-looking and pretty in a boy-next-door kind of way.
As the "boyz" grew a bit older, they paved the way for fellow irish lads Westlife, who also had countless number 1 hits, countless screaming teenage fans and again were all pretty boys.
Had Stephen and Mark come out during the peak of the bands' career, would they have had a big(ger) gay following? Or did the record companies dictate that they were not allowed to reveal their preferences during the boom period?
I wasn't really a fan of either band, so I have no idea where I've got this info from…have I made it up or is some of it true??
It must be hometime soon…
Weenie I think your knowledge comes from the saturation media world we live in :) It is pretty hard to stay uninformed about crap non-news stories like this one