The 2 sides of Westlife
Article from the News of the World, July 1st 2001
Prepare to be shocked. While two of Westlife are spoken for (what a bore), Shane, Kian and Mark are mad for it - and tell all here! (By Hannah Dene)
You're in a bar and you see a beautiful girl. What do you say to impress her?
SHANE: I stare at her like crazy.
KIAN: Yeah, and flirt with her.
SHANE: But the most important thing is eye contact. (Laughs) Then I'd say, "How are you doing?!"
MARK: Yeah, try to catch her eye and start flirting, smiling and talking.
SHANE: I'd stare at her a lot and see if she likes me.
KIAN: You have to show you like her.
MARK: If you just walk over and start saying all the chat up lines, they're going to think you're a total idiot.
Your new girlfriend tells you she wants to have a baby with you. How do you react?
ALL: (Laughing) P*** off!
SHANE: I'd tell her no, it's too early.
MARK: (Laughs) P*** off for a few years, love!
KIAN: I agree.
MARK: No babies for a long time!
A fan asks you out to dinner and you don't have any plans that night. Would you go?
SHANE: Is she good looking? If she isn't, I wouldn't go. I'm only joking!
MARK: It depends if she's a nice girl.
SHANE: If she's a nice girl I'd go. Her being a fan wouldn't bother me.
KIAN: Depends how big a fan she is.
MARK: If she's a lunatic, I wouldn't.
You're at a party and you get so drunk that you throw up all over the dance floor. It's in the papers the next day. How do you deal with that?
KIAN: Just say that we're human. I'm 21 - what do you expect? Ninety per cent of 21 year olds do that. I got really drunk at The Brit Awards and it was all over the papers. But I just thought: "So? I won a Brit Award and I'm 21 - of course I'm going to get wasted! Why wouldn't I?!"
SHANE: (Laughs) I'd say that I had a great night.
MARK: I'd be the same as them. It's a normal thing to do
You've been seeing a girl for some weeks and you both want to take it furthur. She tell you it's her first time - she's a virgin. What do you do?
SHANE: I'd tell her: "Don't worry, so am I". (Laughs)
MARK: That's terrible! I'd try to make it the nicest experience possible. Not do anything too fast. If it's her first experience, you don't want to put her off. I'd probably be nervous knowing it was her first time. I'm giving her the impression of sex. First impressions last, if you know what I mean. SHANE: You'd want to be good!
KIAN: (Laughs) You've got to make sure she's very, very comfortable. And she needs to be absolutely sure she's doing the right thing. It's important the first person you have sex with is someone you love. I was really in love with the first person I had sex with.
SHANE: I wouldn't do anything unless I loved her. If I'm in love, that's a good thing. Let nature take its course.
KIAN: Obviously guys get nervous when they have to be, like, the first sex experience. You need to be the best you can be. Like Mark said, first impressions last. .
One girl wants to take two of you guys home to her place. Do you go?
ALL: Definitely not!
SHANE: I wouldn't like that! I have to be in control.
KIAN: (Laughs) If you are with two girls you're definitely not in control
! SHANE: If there's two guys... no, can't think about it!
MARK: I'd never do that!
You're on a date witha girl you fancy. You find out that she's been dating JC from NSync, Nick from Backstreet Boys, and Sean from Five. What do you do?
KIAN: She's a serial celebrity dater - get rid of her!
SHANE: She's a monster fan - see ya!
MARK: In a situation like that, I would actually take advantage of the girl!
SHANE & KIAN: (Laughs) Oooh!
MARK: She's going to take advantage of me so obviously I would do the same to her if I'm in the mood for sex. If they're coming up to me just because I'm in a band and treat me with no respect as a person then I'd be like: "Whatever, love!"
Two girls want to take one of you guys home - do you go with them?
SHANE: Oooh, yes!!
KIAN: That's every man's fantasy.
MARK: (Laughs) I'd really love to have a threesome!
SHANE: It depends if they've got nice personalities!
MARK: It depends if they look good.
SHANE: True. Looks are so important. Looks are like the top for me.
KIAN: That's a stupid thing to say!
SHANE: Maybe it's not important to you, but it's important to me.
MARK: If you're going to have a threesome it's going to be more of a sex thing, not like boyfriend and girlfriend making love. So that's why the girls need to be sexy girls.
SHANE: I don't see why that's a bad thing.
KIAN: It's a bad thing to say because you say it all the time.
SHANE: I'm just being honest here.
You're at a club and a guy comes up to you and asks you to dance. Do you?
SHANE: A guy? Definitely not!
KIAN & MARK: No!
MARK: People may think I'm gay.
SHANE: No way! Bye bye
MARK: If one of your mates asks you, it's OK. But not some stranger.
SHANE: (Makes his voice deep) Would you like to dance? Hell no!
KIAN: You go on the dancefloor with a girl or some mates - not some strange man!
SHANE: If a girl came and asked me, well, that's another story isn't it?
MARK: (Laughs) If she's good looking!
SHANE: Yeah, nice legs and a nice bum! Mmmm. I'm into that.
The first time you enter your new girlfriends house, you discover she has posters of you everywhere. What do you do?
SHANE: Psycho!
MARK: No, not a psycho.
KIAN: It does make you wonder whether she's in it for you. Why does she have pictures of me all over her house? If she just had, say, a photo of me beside her bed that she had taken or one of her friends had taken, then that would be OK. But I'd think she wasn't in it for the right reason if she was with me every day, kissing me every day, and still had posters of me on every wall.
SHANE: At the end of the day, when you're with a girl, you've got to feel you're with her because you're normal and you've got to feel like this girl might love you. You can take advantage of a lot of girls in Westlife. At the end of the day we're just normal people, but we understand it's dificult for a girl to ignore.
MARK: We don't take advantage. But some girls make it so obvious they are only coming up to you because you're in Westlife. You know. In that case it's really quite strange. But if the girl comes up and she's really being nice, it's a different story.
You're offered a role in a movie that lasts just 10 seconds and you'll get £5m. The only thing is - it's a nude scene. Would you do it?
KIAN: If there was no sex invloved, I would do it!
MARK: Definitely!
SHANE: (Laughs) I reckon I'd do it for 10 hours!