March 2000 - TV Hits - Wonder Wheel
Nicky, Mark & Bryan Westlife prepare to face the wicked workings of the Wonder Wheel...
Do you feel famous yet?
Mark: It's a bit weird 'cos we don't feel famous, but it feels like everybody knows who we are!
Nicky: I don't feel famous. When we're out on our own we don't recognised as much, especially when we're in England.
Bryan: When you're really famous you have to wear a baseball cap everywhere - and people recognise you anyway!
Ever snogged anyone famous?
Nicky: My girlf Georgina - the Prime Minister's daughter!
Bryan: Kian snogged Nicky's sister and she's gonna be famous, if that counts?
Nicky: She's a singer and a dancer and she'll be famous!
Have you been given any good freebies lately?
All: Dolce and Gabbana togs!
Bryan: And Siemens mobile phones!
What did you have for dinner last night?
Nicky: Chicken and chips.
Bryan: I had buffalo wings and garlic chips which were really horrible. And a chocolate malt.
What celeb would you be nervous about meeting?
Mark: Mariah Carey.
Bryan: Elvis! No, probably Michael Jackson. But I really want to meet Stevie Wonder, he's a legend!
Would you dump a girl of your dreams if your mates didn't like her?
Bryan: No way!
Nicky: If I'd just started going out with a girl and my mates were saying they didn't lik eher, I'd try to convince them otherwise.
Mark: I'd try to find out the reasons for them not getting on.
Has your mum got any embarrassing pictures of you at home?
Bryan: Oh stop! My Commuion picture is on the mantelpiece, and I've got no teeth at the front, and two days before I'd cut my own hair, so imagine what it looked like! To top it all, I'm wearing a dark blue pin-striped suit!
Mark: My mum's got a school photo of me, smack bang in the middle of the sitting room - and I've this awful rash all over my face. It's horrible!
What's your fave crisps?
Mark: Salt and vinegar.
Bryan: Me too!
Nicky: Listen to this. You know how there's Cheese & Owen and Salt & Vinegar flavours? Well, I think we should get onto Walker's and start up a Smokey Beckham (TM Westlife) flavour heh, heh!
Got any pics on your bedroom walls?
Mark: Well, I used to have loads, but I took them down when my room was being redecorated and never put them back up.
Bryan: My bedroom's just been redone 'cos I don't really live in it anymore. I used to have pics of Pamela Anderson and Backstreet Boys. I had one of BSB live in concert, I used to just stare at it and think how much I wanted to be in a band...
Do you have any female friends?
Nicky: I've got loads of female friends, but I don't think a fella can have a best friend who's a girl.
Mark: I think it can happen.
Nicky: It can, but not without either the guy or the girl wanting to be with each other.
Mark: I grew up with Avril and we never looked at each other like that.
Nicky: No, it just can't happen! I've loads of female friends, but none you could have intimate talks with.
Bryan: With your best friend you do have a love bond, and you can't have that with a girl 'cos you just want to snog 'em!
Do you still get nervous doing telly interviews?
Mark: Every now and then.
Nicky: I get more nervous doing interviews on Irish tv, 'cos you know your family and friends will all be watching.
Bryan: When we do tv in Europe, we know nobody we know will be watching, so it's much easier!
When did you last ask for a girl's number?
Mark: I've never asked for a girl's number!
Bryan: I never go 'here;s my number' 'cos you end up getting a slap!
Ever been in trouble with the police?
Mark: Yeah, I was going too fast in my car!
Bryan: Tell the truth, the real reason he was pulled over was 'cos his lights weren't workinh!
Nicky: I remember when you were on the way to Dublin to do a tv show and the police pulled you over and you said you were in the band so they let you go!
Mark: I never said i was in the band!
Bryan: We don't ever say we're in a band, like if we're chatting up girls or soemthing. We'd say we're builders!
Nicky: Aaaaah, Kian's the worst for that!
Bryan: Whenever we got somewhere he's all like (in an amarmy vioce) 'Hi, I'm in Westlife' ha, ha!
Nicky: I never say I'm in the band. If they recognise youl they recognise you. One night, Bryan and six friends went clubbing and got knocked back from three places!
Bryan: The people we were with said we should tell them, but we couldn't.
Nicky: It was two am...
Bryan: Another time, we were stopped from going in and there were loads of girls around us asking for out autographs, so we were signing away and we were like, 'Can we come in, please?' Eventially they let us in!
What's your fave Boyzone lyric?
Bryan: 'I love the way you love me'.
Nicky: 'This is where I belong, this is where I come from'. It's on their album and it's a great lyric!
Mark: 'You're all that I needed'.
When you're out with your mates, do you feel obliged to buy the drinks?
Mark: I don't usually get a chance - they get them in 'cos I've usually been away for such a long time...
Nicky: You do feel they expect you to be loaded, so you can buy them the first round, but then they'll always buy a round back. Theydon't expect you to buy them all night.
Bryan: There was an article in the paper in Ireland a while back saying 'Westlife are broke and don't have a peeny to their names'. It'll be grand when we go home now, 'cos they'll be buying us all the drinks! (Laughs)
Do you get on with your brothers and sisters?
Nicky: I've got an older sister and a younger brother. I get on really, really well with my sister and with my brother as well. Even though he's only nine.
Bryan: He's absolutely beautiful!
If you had an argument with Ronan about a band ting, would you stand up for yourselves?
Mark: Defintely, because he makes us feel that's what we hsould do. He makes us feel comfortable that we'd never be worried about asking him for advice. And if we think he's wrong, we'd say.
Nicky: He always says things like, 'Give me some feedback. Do you think I'm wrong?' And he'll say, 'Well this is what I would do, but it's up to you lads...' Obviously we're gonna listen to him and we usually end up agreeing with him 'cos ot's pretty saf to say that he knows what he's talking about!
Bryan: I remember one time when he showed us dome clothes and we pretended that we liked them when really didn't. He coulde see from our faces that we weren't keen, and he was like, 'I've told you before to say what you think!' So we always do!
Dare!
Alright lads. Quite frankly, we'd like to see you do the Irish jig...
Bryan: We can really do it!
Mark: We're all actually classically trained jiggers you know...
Nicky: Alright lads - places please, and let's begin... (and with that the 'Lifers twirl, pivot and wave their legs sbout in such a wild and frantic fashion that the TV HITS team actually begin to fear for their lives!)