Westlife’s Brian McFadden

X Factor 2013: Westlife’s Brian McFadden to replace Gary Barlow?

Brian McFadden has revealed that he would love to join the X Factor judging panel, if Gary Barlow steps down this year.
Most stars wait for Simon Cowell to come knocking on their door, but the former Westlife star has put his name out there personally and admitted that working on the ITV singing show would be his dream job.
The Irish singer and Kerry Katona’s baby daddy (is that reason enough NOT to hire him?) has already worked with Cowell, as part of his former boyband and then again when he joined the judging panel of Australia’s Got Talent, so he thinks he knows what the music mogul wants from his judges and stars.
Brian is moving back to the UK, to pursue a reignited music career and told The Daily Mail that he would love to kick start it, by taking a place on the hit entertainment series.
‘I’m going to give Simon a call and ask him to put me on that list,’ he revealed.
‘We worked together for six years when I was in Westlife. I’ve gone through enough in my own career to be able to offer some advice.’
Brian recently supported Boyzone star Ronan Keating in his nationwide tour and it seems the concerts were a great experience for the singer. After his final gig this week he tweeted:
“just got off stage for the last night of the #fires tour with @ronanofficial what a great tour with a great bunch of people!!!!”

He will soon kick off his own UK tour and the shows will kick off in Glasgow on 19th March.
However, he may have some competition for the X Factor role, as insiders have claimed that Simon is considering adding Robbie Williams to the lineup. He wants a new female also, but the choice is said to be between Mel B and Sharon Osbourne. Olly Murs revealed last night that he is backing Mrs O for the job.
Do you think Brian would make a good X Factor judge? Watch him being harsh with a contestant on AGT and leave your comments below….

 

McFadden 'misses time with Westlife'

Brian McFadden has admitted he has been missing his time with Westlife during a chat with Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford on This Morning.

The singer was reminiscing before performing a song from his new album 'The Irish Connection' on Thursday.
His interview was picked by the presenters as one of their 'best bits' of the week.
Brian said travelling around Asia with new wife Vogue Williams had reminded him of his time touring with the band.
He said: "It just brought back so many memories you know, and I was just saying to Vogue, 'We went there and played there'- just getting a bit...missing it at the moment."
He told Eamonn and Ruth that leaving his bandmates was a sad time.
"We had such a great time together. Six years before that I was working in a McDonalds," he explained.
"Thanks to people like Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell we just got this incredible life, such an amazing time.
"I look back now and I miss it."

 

'I've spent most of my dance career sitting on a stool

'I've spent most of my dance career sitting on a stool'

The 33-year-old Dubliner has been confirmed as one of the celebrities battling it out for the title on the new BBC reality series.

And while he’s really excited at learning a few new moves he admitted he’s totally petrified.

Dad Nicky, who has five-year-old twins Rocco and Jay with wife Georgina, laughed: “It feels strange. I mean I’m excited, scared to death. Most of my dance career was spent sitting on a stool with Westlife.

“I’d be quite healthy and I train hard, but if you work hard I think you should play hard so at the weekend it’s all fish and chips and over-indulgence with the takeaways.

“I’ll just have to be more disciplined.”

But he admitted the real challenge will be wearing the garish outfits for the show which starts on Saturday.

The stylish singer quipped: “We were over last week and met all the contestants and wardrobe girls who had plenty of fun putting some stuff on us.

“They made us put on this sequined diamante vest, with no material only diamantes and I thought, you’re never going to see me in that.”

The blonde hunk will put his dance skills to the test against silver Olympic medallist gymnast Louis Smith and gold-winning track cyclist Victoria Pendleton, TV presenters Denise Van Outen and Johnny Ball, Mick Jagger’s ex-wife Jerry Hall, ex-England cricket captain Michael Vaughan, former This Morning presenter Fern Britton, EastEnders actor Sid Owen, James Bond actor Colin Salmon and Girls Aloud babe Kimberley Walsh.

But Nicky said his greatest ambition would’ve been to dance with his all-time favourite mover, Michael Jackson.

He added: “The best dancer of all time is probably Michael Jackson, I’d loved to have danced with him.

“But I don’t know how co-ordinated I am. My earliest memory is the day before I started school when I was four I was knocked down by a guy on a bicycle.

“I wasn’t looking and ran across the road, it wasn’t pretty.

“There was a lot of blood, stitches and the whole shebang. Hopefully there’ll be nothing like that.”

Chart-topping Westlife called it a day earlier in June this year with a farewell tour marking a 14-year career that saw them sell more than 44 MILLION records.

Since then Nicky has been laying low but yesterday the hottie returned to his school in Baldoyle, north Dublin, to launch this year’s Cheerios Childline Breakfast Together Week with some pupil from fifth class.

Thousands of schools, creches, offices and homes will host a breakfast to raise funds for Childline from October 8-14.