Flowing With The Tide

Westlife singer Kian Egan has admitted that he finds Danyl Johnson annoying when he watches The X Factor”.

The Westlife star revealed that he used to enjoy Johnson’s performances but now feels differently about the schoolteacher, who is part of Simon Cowell’s Over 25s category.

Egan told Sky News: “I was a fan of Danyl but he doesn’t do it for me now. He seems to have lost it, he annoys me now and I want to turn over.”

Westlife have admitted they can’t wait to see the back of 2009 following a year of personal tragedy.

The band endured the deaths of the fathers of Kian Egan and Nicky Byrne this year, and the loss of their friend Stephen Gately.

But they have now thrown themselves back into work to cope with their grief.

“It’s been a crap year,” admitted Byrne. “I think we’re all looking forward to the next year to be honest.”

His father died suddenly last month, but the band returned to performing to promote their 10th album Where We Are.

“There are times when you look back at it and think ‘Should I be enjoying myself?’” Byrne said.

“That’s part and parcel of it. Its certainly better than sitting and home and doing nothing but crying, because I’ve done all my crying, I just can’t cry anymore.

“Having such a good album has been positive.”

The fact that the band members were friends before they hit the big time more than 10 years ago seems to have helped them cope.

“As a band we’ve got closer in the last three or four months” said Shane Filan.

“We’re closer than we’ve ever been. When something is taken away from you, or someone like Steven that was looking forward to his next album, and you know he can’t do that now.

“It kind of puts things into perspective a lot.”

Staying positive and sticking together has been the way through the last few months in Westlife world.

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