Fire Alarm Interrupts UK Pop Stars
Someone at the hotel Blue, Liberty, and others on the Smash Hits tour set off the hotel’s fire alarm Wednesday night. The boys in Blue were partying in the bar and one rushed to help Jessica from Liberty as she revealed, “Simon gave me a piggy back down the stairs from the seventh floor, which was very sweet of him because I didn’t have any shoes. We were tucked up in bed, and I thought it was my alarm, and I was like looking at my alarm going, ‘Stop! Stop!’ and then I realized it was echoing through the whole hotel.”
Top Of The Pops Talks To Liberty
November 14, 2001 – The guys and gals from Liberty talked with Top of The Pops where Kevin from the band was asked if wild cheers from fans were because his fly was open… Kevin replied, “They wouldn’t be screaming – they’d be peeping to see something. I mean, no hints about my manhood or anything but it’s only two inches!” As for the band checking for themselves on the internet, Kelli admits, “There are shocking pictures of me, but they’re not me – they’re just my head superimposed over another body. The boobs were out of proportion!”
Blue’s American Assault Axed After Lee Ryan Comments
November 20, 2001 – The Sun reports Virgin exec’s have shelved any plans on British chart topping band Blue to make a run in the United States following the outrageous comments by Lee Ryan concerning the September 11 terror attacks. A Virgin source told the Sun, “We were looking to make some sort of assault there and the initial reaction was very positive. But after what Lee said there is a wave of feeling against them and they have had a lot of threats from people in the States and have been warned not to go there.”
Blue Want To Do A Movie
November 16, 2001 – Top of The Pops talked with Blue and asked Simon if the band has considered doing a movie. Simon replied, “We’ve all talked about it. We would love to make a movie. But it would be a blue movie because we would be in it wouldn’t we? Not a pornographic one though!”
The Rest Of That Blue Chat
November 6, 2001 – The Sun is finally publishing the rest of that chat with Blue where Lee Ryan made perhaps the most foolish comment of his life. Amongst the other questions were the bands thoughts on U.K. titans Westlife, where Simon replied, “We are completely different to Westlife. We are not a pop group and just do our own thing. Saying that, Westlife are great blokes.” The full transcript has since been removed.
Liberty Pulls Out All The Stops Sexually In New Video
October 16, 2001 – The Sun is reporting that the new video for Liberty’s Doin’ It is so steamy that parts will have to be censored. An insider on the set revealed, “It was a really sexually charged shoot – every time you looked somebody was touching somebody else.” Look for the video to be out November 19.
The Sun Chat With Liberty
September 29, 2001 – The Sun has a transcript of the band’s chat with the paper after the group bounced back from a Popstars rejection. When asked about their thoughts of Kym from Hear-Say and her ‘bitchy’ comments about the group, Jessica responded, “I knew Kym and Suzanne as we all started off at the Northern auditions but didn’t spend that much time together. I wouldn’t call us mates and I don’t listen to what is said.”
