Former Boyzone star Stephen Gately has spoken to The Mirror about the violent bust-up with his partner Andrew Cowles that saw the pair punching and kicking each other in the street, just two months after they “married” at a special ceremony in Las Vegas. “You know what it’s like – boys will be boys,” he said. “It only lasted a few minutes. We don’t really know what happened. It was over something really stupid and I can’t remember much of it. We were very tipsy and tired as we’d just got back from Dublin. Andrew’s getting the blame for whacking me but that’s not fair. I whacked him first.”

The London Star reports Colin Farrell has revealed he was the first choice for the lead singer in Boyzone. Louis Walsh asked him to sing at an audition when he was just 16. “I was fu**ing tone deaf so it wouldn’t have worked out,” he admitted.

The Sunday People reports music mogul Louis Walsh would not have let Stephen Gately into Boyzone if he had known he was gay “because the way the business works.”

ShowbizIreland.com has photos of former Boyzone members Keith Duffy, Stephen Gately, and Mikey Graham gathered amongst a host of celebrities and Stars at the Keith Duffy Golf Classic at the weekend. They weren’t joined by Shane Lynch or Ronan Keating though. Check out photos and more on the golf tourney here.

Former Boyzone star Mikey Graham mailed the Sun to tell fans thanks for their concern over his nervous breakdown last June. Graham revealed, “Most of you know I have been unwell of late. Last year, after an exhaustive period of promoting both Boyzone and my own projects, I finally collapsed and felt completely burned out. I truly regret that this occurred right when the tour and the album were set to be launched.”