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Boyzone’s Shane Lynch tells TV host where to shove embarrassing clip
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 26 November 2018
After 25 years of being asked about something you once did that made you look a bit silly, you might start to get a little tetchy. Which is how Boyzone’s Shane Lynch last week came to tell Irish TV host Ryan Tubridy to shove a video clip up his “fucking hole”.
Boyzone are in the process of bringing their career together to an end, with a farewell album just out and final tour dates on the way. They’ve done a lot during their 25 years as a group, but a clip of them appearing on Ireland’s ‘The Late Late Show’ shortly (like, hours) after forming and making fools of themselves is one of their most enduring achievements.
Appearing on the same show on Friday night, current host Tubridy presented them with that clip and asked if it bothered them that people found it funny. Lynch – who had arrived late to the interview, due to travel issues – seethed: “Listen, here’s the story behind that clip. I’ve busted my bollocks to get here. See that clip, you can shove it up your fucking hole. That’s what you can do with that clip”.
Then answering the original question, he added “no, I don’t give a fuck”, and flipped his middle finger at the camera.
Offering a somewhat more level-headed view, Keith Duffy explained: “Obviously, in the earlier years, we cringed, we were mortified … Louis Walsh had literally put us together the night before [and] he said, ‘the first thing you’re going to do as a band is to go on ‘The Late Late Show’. [At the time] we were honoured to be on it”.
I miss the days when anyone would allow that sort of thing to happen.
