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| CLOSE TO BLUE BLUE basked in their new superstar status with an impromptu party at the Riverside caf�. About 50 fans turned up to join in the fun and the lads were lovin� every minute of it! Many kisses and cuddles were exchanged and, quite frankly, the females couldn�t get close enough! |
| LEE BLUE revealed himself to be a secret chocolate fiend when he started tucking into the TOTP choc box. So much for pop stars and their diets! |
| CLASSIC MOMENTS AT TOTP The charts weren�t the only thing occupied by BLUE last month. The toilets at TOTP were kept busy, too! In between warm-up vocals and serious hairstyling (Dunc kept Elnett hairspray handy at all times!) the boys formed a steady queue outside all available loos! Why? A case of �nervous debut performance dodgy gut syndrome!� Pooh! |
| OH, THE SHAME! DUNCAN BLUE I was at the rotisserie counter in Tesco�s with my best mate, Phil, when he ran up and yanked down my tracksuit bottoms. But everything came off! I was standing there at the chicken counter butt naked from the waist down and everyone started laughing. |
| Gemini (22 May-21 June) Antony Blue (23 June 81) Bangers, mash and beans, that�s what you need! None of this faddy low-carb nonsense. You so don�t need to diet! Destiny hides from Daniel! |
| EXCLUSIVE! HIGHLAND FLING! There�s a new pop couple in town cos LIZ KITTEN and LEE BLUE are officially stepping out! But forget the first date at the local fleapit flicks � out Lee�s a classy lad! �We wanted to get away from it all, so our first date was a weekend in Scotland,� he told us. �We stayed in a romantic log cabin and no, before you say anything, it wasn�t a dirty weekend!� Guess we�ll never see Liz feeling Blue! |
| STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART! It�s that time of the year again when thousands of people across the country wait patiently by their letter box � only to receive declarations of love from their gran! But just how soft are pop peep when it comes to St Valentine�s Day? ANTONY BLUE I�ve never really made an effort with St Valentine�s Day because at the time I�ve always had a girlfriend. LEE BLUE I�d love to receive a fantasy valentine from Superwoman. Then she could just pick me up and take me wherever she wanted! |
| PHONE BUG! First there were stories of a romance between LIL KITTEN and little LEE BLUE, and now it seems DUNCAN BLUE may have his eye on SUZANNE HEAR�SAY! Duncan told TOTP that he loves to send sexy text messages � especially to celebs like Suzanne! �I really wanted to spin her out, so I pretended to be some bloke called Crispin. It certainly made her smile!� |
| Dear Dan the Man, I LOVE BLUE!I only buy blue clothes, I have blue tips on my hair, a blue phone case, two blue hamster cages and blue nail varnish. Am I mad? Oh, and I wanna tell all girls, hands off Duncan � he�s mine, he-he! Zara McCourt, London So you�d like to be feeling Blue in more ways than one! Well, I wouldn�t say you were toatally mad � but maybe just an ickle bit?! |
| Cancer (22 June-23 July) Antony Blue (23 June 81) Some daft gossip about you is about to come true. Ignore the tattle of sticky beaks. Destiny nurses a swollen digit! |
| Duncan Blue�s TOP 5 soaps -Eastenders -Neighbours -Friends -Coronation Street -Hollyoaks |
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| BLUE BOY Dear Emma, Don�t you think that Lee from Blue is the spitting image of Brian from Backstreet Boys? Lay Yain, Middlesex PS Michael Jackson is no freak! He�s a genius! I can see a vague resemblance with Lee but your comments about Michael Jackson are way off the mark. This is an argument that�s set to run and run. |
| LOOKY LIKEY Dear Emma, I don�t know if you�ve noticed it, but I think that Jamie Bell, star of Billy Elliot, and Lee from Blue look like they were separated at birth. What do you think? Mia Absolutely, I agree! Only Jamie Bell hasn�t quite got to grips with Lee�s sexy swoon and dodgy Frank Spencer impressions yet. |
| POOR DUNCAN Dear Emma I was reading through the October 3 issue of your magazine when I saw sexy boyband Blue celebrating their first No1 in the Smash Hits chart. I was looking at Duncan when I noticed he had rips in his shirt. Has he just gone totally mad with some scissors or could the poor boy not afford the new one? Lucy Simmons, Kettering Alas, poor Duncan hardly has two pennies to rub together and sadly he cannot afford a new shirt to put on his back. He has been wearing the same one through a grueling round of touring and now it�s very smelly. |
| Lee�s tragic Dear Emma, I was disgusted to hear Lee Blue�s comments on the New York tragedy. Having said that, I understand he is sorry now so maybe he will just have to keep his mouth shut in the future in stick to music. Why don�t bands realize just �cos they are in the public eye it doesn�t make them politicians? Tony Blair doesn�t try his hand at singing, does he? Sara, Bury Sarah, I agree with you. Politics and pop stars just don�t mix. But having been with Blue at the time I would say they were shocked and upset by what happened and I�m sure anything Lee said in haste he regrets now. |
| Psst! Digital Get Down Lee from Blue told us he�ll be listening to Smash Hits Radio when the digital services launches in March. �The emphasis is going to be on the music the listeners ask for � so make sure you request plenty of Blue!� he laughed. |
| SMARTIES BEST NEWCOMER BLUE Lee: It�s mad, I can�t believe it! We�ve only been out a few months and now we�re best newcomer. I�d have thought Hear�say would have won because they�ve worked really hard this year. We�ll give out award to our fan club. |
| Top Five Non-Stop Pap! Five rubbish things that happened in pop this year� Lee Blue�s big mouth � It�s great when you�re singing, but keep your half-baked political opinions to yourself, sunshine |
| The best albums of 2001 <5> BLUE All Rise The newest boyband on the block have certainly got our temperatures rising, and their debut album of funky R�n�B flavours is a sure fire hit. And Girl I�ll Never Understand is fantastic. |
| The best singles of 2001 <10> BLUE All Rise Blue burst into our lives with the courtroom-themed All Rise. It stormed into the top five and hung around in the top ten for ten weeks. Not bad for their first single, eh? |
| LADS OF THE FORTNIGHT 1) Antony Blue Highly under-rated, yet strangely attractive. |
| Pssst! POP GOSSIP Total-Lee Bonkers! Lee Blue believe he�s an extra-terrestrial. �I do think I�m an alien, seriously,� he told Smash Hits. �I�m really into talking about deep things, weird stuff like aliens and spaceships. There�s more to this world than us. I think the planet we�re living on is really our God.� Er, yeah. |
| Kitten going Blue? Dear Emma, Can you please tell me the truth? I have heard that Lee Blue and Liz from Atomic Kitten are an item. What�s more, Lee was the only member of Blue at Bryan McFadden�s wedding, now what�s that about? If it is true, I think they should stop lying to the fans and come clean. Sarah, Birmingham Well, I have heard the rumours and I noticed both of them were sporting matching tans at the wedding. So, I think we can safely assume that it�s true. |
| Psst! Anyone seen Blue? Blue may say the reason why they haven�t been around much lately is their glam trips to Asia, but we reckon we�ve stumbled on the truth � the boys have actually been busy with part-time jobs as removal men! When we asked Ant about his new career, he squirmed, �It�s er�just fer Chums � I mean, ya know I like doing Del Boy impressions�� Hmm, alrighty! |
| Guestbook Where the stars share their CD:UK experience This month Si Blue When did your alarm go off this mornin�? 6.30 am How did you get to the studio? OUR TOUR MANAGER. Have you sampled any of the caff�s delights? YEP WONDERFUL DELIGHT. Was it yum? HELL YEH How�s your CD:UK experience been? FANTASTIC, IT�S AN HONOUR TO BE INVITED HERE ALWAYS. Have you enjoyed your stay? INDEED Where are you off to now? GERMANY 4 P.A. See ya then! CEEN! X |
| Home boys! When we caught up with those Blue lads on a whistle-stop visit back home, we asked �em why them were so happy to be down the caff. �I love going abroad but it�s nice to be in my own bed!� smiled Lee. �And we get to see our mates � I�ve got a cracking night planned!� Dunc added over a sarnie. And Lee brought some v. sophis tastes home � he ordered a Brie and cranberry baguette! Blimey! |
| Still Blue?! Westlife did it. Liberty have been ordered to do it. Hear�Say changed from �Hearsay� to avoid doing it. And now Blue have revealed they were threatened with being sued if they didn�t do it when they hit the charts with All Rise! �What?� you ask? Change their names, that�s what. Yep, back before the pop gods we know and love, there were bands called Westside (The Loife�s original name), Liberty, Hearsay and Blue, and they�re all mighty miffed that their names were nicked. |
| AAARRRGH! Those lurvely Blue boys were mobbed by screaming fans as they were walking into the MTC studio! Lee was jumping around, even more excited than usual, cos they�d just been told they were Number One in the midweek charts with Too Close. Crazy boys! |
| BLUE MOON! Gettin� naked in America� The poor ol� Blue boys got into a spot of bother on the motorway during a recent trip to the States. Their car broke down and the lads had to be rescued by armed police! �They took us to the nearest hotel,� Duncan told us. �And it was really weird � a place called Terry Town somewhere near New Jersey.� The lads had a whale of a time in their new hotel! �We got carried away a bit,� Lee explained. �The hotel�s security were always coming up to our room to tell us off � especially after me and Duncan got caught running naked around the corridors!� Ooo � naughty but nice! |
| Bashful Blue? This month the normally madcap boys came over all shy. Wanna know why? Well, just as they were chatting about how gorge Natalie Imbruglia is, guess who was standing behind them? That�s right � the Aussie popstrel herself! Oh no! Poor ol� Dunc had o hide behind Simon to spare his blushes! Ha ha! |
| BLUE-MIN� BRILLIANT! Si, Dunc, Lee and Ant appeared on our TVs and radios out of the Blue (ha, ha!) and took the pop world by storm with their debut single All Rise. It reached number four, then hung about the charts for weeks. Not bad, but their second single Too Close knocked the poptastic Five off the hotspot in September. These boys are destined for big things in 2002 � watch this space! |
| ROCKIN� ALL OVER THE WORLD! Those boys in Blue can�t stop for a second, can they? In the past month, they�ve been to every cool do, launched their alb, gone to Oz � and as our pics show, dropped into the shopping centre, Bluewater! The lads were there to celebrate Madame Tussaud�s first-ever tour � which features models of music�s coolest stars, including Kylie, Robbie and Victoria Beckham! The exhibition also includes an exclusive collection donated by the stars � Blue�s hand-casts join the likes of those by Hear�Say in the exhibition! The lads had a fab time hangin� with all the other waxworks � although they were the only ones who couldn�t double as a giant candle. Doh! |
| Blue Boo-hoo! I went to the Live in The City concert, with my mates to see Blue. As you can imagine I was really excited about going � but I ended up spending most of the day with the ambulance crew cos I passed out! I hardly saw the Blue boys, who are the best band in the whole world. In fact, this was the best photo I managed to get of them � and it�s really rubbish! Kirsty Eardley, Stoke Ali says�Awh! Poor you! You deserve our 25 quid prize to make up for it! Go on, treat yourself! Maybe to a new camera, eh? |