Bressie and Kian’s warfare ‘just banter’

‘THE Voice of Ireland’ coach Bressie has reassured fans there’s nothing scripted about his verbal warfare with Westlife’s Kian Egan.

The former Blizzards frontman insisted: “It’s definitely not an act, there’s nothing contrived about it. If we had to put on an act, I wouldn’t have done the show.

“We’re very different and we’ve completely different approaches to what we’re looking for. Having said that, I’ve a huge amount of respect for him and what he has done, and anything we say to each other is the type of banter you’d get with a mate in a pub.”

Bressie was speaking at the launch yesterday of the Fighting Cancer Triathlon 2012, which will take place on June 16 in his hometown of Mullingar.

Despite his sporting credentials as a former rugby player, Bressie won’t be togging out for the swim, cycle and run.

He told the Irish Independent: “I’ve done a triathlon before so I’m fully aware of what it takes and the sacrifices you have to make.”

The triathlon raises funds for the Cancer Clinical Research Trust, headed by Professor John Crown.

The senator and oncologist said that despite the health service’s history of providing good access to anti-cancer drugs, there have been “clear hints” that this is an area that may be targeted by cutbacks.

Source: www.independent.ie

I Kian wait to join Louis on Factor

WESTLIFE STAR EYES TV ROLE

LOUIS WALSH and Kian Egan will join forces on a new X Factor dream team, we can reveal.

Sources close to the hit show said Simon Cowell plans to replace Gary Barlow with the Westlife star.

Kian will join his former manager on the panel alongside two as yet unconfirmed judges.

An insider said: “It’s looking like next year’s X Factor will be 50% Irish.

“Simon is very interested in Kian, and Louis is the only judge to have kept his spot on the show all along.

“Producers think Louis and Kian would really spark off each other and bring a new energy to the show.

“Nothing is set in stone yet, but it would be a dream pairing.”

Kian confessed he would love to be a judge on the X Factor, but only if he could work alongside Louis – he would never take his job.

He told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “I would never do that to Louis. I am what I am because of Louis and I would never want to be the type of person who comes in and takes his place on anything.

“If I was told it was either me or Louis, then I would say, ‘this is Louis’ job and it’s what he’s been doing for many years.’

“The dream come true would be me and him sitting side-by-side on the X Factor panel.

“That would be amazing. I think we would be great together. We worked side-by-side on Wonderland, the girl band, and obviously with Westlife. We’re great friends, we talk all the time on the telephone.”

And Kian believes that after his time as a coach on The Voice he would have the necessary experience to take on the X Factor.

The 31-year-old added: “I’ve definitely really, really enjoyed doing it and I think it would feel quite natural to do something like that.

“After doing The Voice, which is a really amazing show to be part of, I wouldn’t rule it out. It’s great to be associated with being on the biggest show on telly.

“When I heard that I was being linked I thought, ‘wow, that’s a lovely thing to be said’.”

And Kian admitted he never misses an episode of the X Factor, which would make it a “big honour” to appear on the show.

He added: “Of course, I would still watch the X Factor. Obviously Louis has been a judge on it for so long and Westlife have been signed to Simon Cowell for the past 15 years.

“We’ve been heavily associated with the X Factor after being on the show so many times. And at this stage it would be a big honour to be on it.”

Source: Irish Sunday Mirror | thanks to Westlife.GR for posting

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Jedward pin new Eurovision hopes on Westlife’s songwriter

POP duo Jedward have enlisted the help of a top Westlife songwriter for their new Eurovision bid.

Swede Nick Jarl has written tracks for the last four albums by the million- selling Irish boyband and now he has contributed a new song ‘Waterline’ for the twins.

However, it will be his first time in Eurovision if the Lucan twins make it to the competition this year.

To do so they must beat songs from five rivals on a ‘Late Late Show’ Eurosong special scheduled for February 24.

But Jedward’s mentor Linda Martin said she had great hopes for ‘Waterline’, which gets its first play on Derek Mooney’s RTE Radio 1 show on Thursday.

“Waterline is a fantastic European pop song. Nick uses the word waterline as a metaphor for falling in love, and this will be his first time in Eurovision, if we make it,” said Ms Martin.

“Nothing is a given. Jedward and I know that we are up against five good songs from five great singers. It’s a five-horse race,” she told the Irish Independent.

There was controversy last year when Jedward’s entry ‘Lipstick’ was leaked on to the internet.

However, this year RTE has announced that none of the five songs will be announced until their first airplay on RTE Radio this week.

The other mentors and acts include TV producer Bill Hughes, who mentors former Irish entrant Donna McCaul.

Also in the mix are musician and producer Greg French with singer Andrew Mann; former B*witched member Edele Barrett with Maria McCool; and agent Julian Benson with singing duo Una Gibney and David Shannon.

As in 2011 the winner will be selected by a public tele-vote and a series of regional juries.

The act chosen as Ireland’s Eurovision entry for 2012 will once again have to compete in a semi-final on either May 22 or May 24, in the hope of making the grand final on May 26 in Azerbaijan.

Source: independant.ie

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The Voice of Ireland – 5th February 2012

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Will Westlife’s Kian Egan take Louis Walsh’s chair as an X Factor judge?

Wounded Simon Cowell is not in a mood to be messed with and is considering ‘sweeping changes’ to The X Factor later this year, I’m told.

Following his purge of close friend Paula Abdul, as well as Nicole Scherzinger and Steve Jones, from the U.S. version earlier in the week, he’s turning his attention to the UK show.

But ITV executives are urging him ‘not to throw the baby out with the bathwater’.

The first decisions to be made are expected to be about the future of host Dermot O’Leary and judge Gary Barlow. ITV would rather they stay but Cowell is not certain.

One new name in the mix to replace the Take That star if he were to depart the talent show is Westlife member Kian Egan.

The Irish singer turned music manager has impressed on his home country’s version of new talent show The Voice and plans to move into the TV world full-time following the band’s farewell tour.

My source says: ‘Kian is highly rated and would be a perfect judge, although whether he is considered will depend on what happens with Louis Walsh.’

Show insiders believe it would be impossible to have both Louis and Kian on the show because they are both so closely connected to the Irish music scene (Louis is Westlife’s manager). ‘In reality, Kian can only be considered if Louis doesn’t come back,’ a source explains.

Source: DailyMail.co.uk