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Blue

September 2023

  • Lee Ryan in a suit holding a mobile phone

    Blue’s Lee Ryan avoids jail for drunkenly assaulting black flight attendant

    Boyband singer, who told the woman he wanted her ‘chocolate children’, given 12-month suspended sentence

August 2023

  • Brandon Flowers and Killers on stage.

    From ‘Nazi’ Bowie to Nixon-lovin’ Brown: six absurd political gaffes from pop stars

    The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers has caused an international row by misreading Russia-Georgia relations, live on stage. But he’s not the first star to stray into controversial territory

March 2023

  • Hear'Say<br>British reality TV pop group Hear'Say pose for a group portrait, UK, 2001. L-R: Myleene Klass, Danny Foster, Kym Marsh, Noel Sullivan and Suzanne Shaw. (Photo by David Tonge/Getty Images)

    Reach for the Stars by Michael Cragg review – hot gossip from pop’s golden age

    In this hoot of an oral history the stars of 90s chart acts recall how their innocence collided with a cynical music industry

January 2023

  • Lee Ryan arrives at Ealing magistrates' court on Thursday.

    Blue singer Lee Ryan found guilty of racially aggravated assault

    After drinking a bottle of port, the 39-year-old told the black flight attendant ‘I want your chocolate children’

October 2022

  • Boyband Blue (clockwise from left, Simon Webbe, Antony Costa, Duncan James and Lee Ryan) in 2022, recreating an old photo from 2003

    Flashback
    Blue look back: ‘The press said we got millions for this photo – a school friend’s mum rang and asked for £20k’

    The boyband members recreate a ‘lucrative’ photoshoot and talk about their teeth, traumas and what their only row in 22 years together was about

August 2021

  • Lee Ryan in 2019.

    Lee Ryan, chart-topping Blue singer, tells court he cannot pay £1,500 fine

    Ryan was found guilty of failing to update driving records, but tells Peterborough magistrates court that Covid pandemic has left him with no earnings

December 2018

  • Boy band members - Ranked

    Ranked
    The 30 best boyband members – ranked!

    From the Osmonds’ Donny to BTS’s Jimin, boybands have produced some brilliant performers behind the hair gel. Ahead of the release of Zayn Malik’s new album, we list the greatest

April 2018

  • Mariah Carey.

    When good TV goes bad: how MTV Cribs ran out of amazing mansions

    Once an insight into Mariah and Missy’s mansions, the show soon turned into tours of four-bed semis, complete with Spurs posters on the bedroom door

June 2017

  • George, Lauren and Antony ... three celebs who have heretofore been deprived of their deserved dedicatory decoration.

    Lost in showbiz
    Costa, Goodger, Barlow! Roll up for our alternative showbiz blue plaque awards

    The BBC is putting up blue plaques to celebrate music stars such as Abba and Nick Drake, but what about the ATM where Blue’s Antony Costa had a wee?

December 2015

  • Former S Club 7 member Jon Lee as Aladdin with Lily Savage as Widow Twankey, in the photo call for a 2012 pantomime production of Aladdin

    Music blog
    Pop stars in pantomime: the 90s tween music afterlife

    We’re in the season where the biggest pop music stars of the 90s fill theatres all over again – as the stars of pantos up and down the UK

July 2015

  • Bankrupt popstars - clockwise from top left: MC Hammer, 50 Cent, Mick Fleetwood and La Toya Jackson.

    Music blog
    Riches to rags: a brief history of bankruptcy in pop

    50 Cent should take heart: bankruptcy is a music biz tradition. Here are some of the most spectacular ways stars have blown or failed to make their fortunes

May 2015

  • Lee Ryan of Blue performs on stage at LG Arena on December 15, 2013 in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

    Lee Ryan becomes fourth and final Blue member to file for bankruptcy

    Despite selling 15m records and having 40 No 1s around the world, each member of the boyband Blue has subsequently gone bust

January 2015

  • Scared cat

    Lost in showbiz
    Blue’s Lee Ryan says ‘I had a dream’ – and sparks a million feline nightmares

    The singer, spiritualist and alien botherer makes what may be his weirdest revelation yet: he dreamed he had a sexual relationship with a cat

December 2014

  • Wham!

    10 of the best
    Boybands: 10 of the best

    Caroline Sullivan: From the Monkees’ scornful takedown of a social-climbing ex-girlfriend to a soft-pop humdinger penned by Gary Barlow in 15 minutes, here are 10 songs that prove being screamed at doesn’t make you talentless

November 2014

  • Nicki Minaj PR shot

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best Twitter flounces

    The most memorable farewells, however brief, to micro-blogging, as chosen by Tom Lamont

January 2014

  • Dappy and Liz Jones on Celebrity Big Brother.

    TV and radio blog
    Have you been watching ... Celebrity Big Brother?

    Stuart Heritage: By rights, the reality show spin-off shouldn't even still be on air, but this has been the best season yet, with outstanding tasks and a gripping love triangle

August 2013

  • Scouting for Girls

    What are the worst Best Ofs of all time?

    JJ Dunning: If Scouting for Girls can have a definitive collection, then the possibilities are endless. Here's our selection of some of the most unnecessary greatest hits collections out there

May 2013

  • Blue

    Music blog
    Big Reunion and The Voice prove one thing: it's no fun being an ex-pop star

  • atomic kitten big reunion

    The Big Reunion Tour – review

March 2013

  • The Big Reunion: Blue in rehearsal.

    Have you been watching?
    Have you been watching … The Big Reunion?

    Heidi Stephens: A series about six 90s pop bands getting back together sounds dreadful. But watching groups such as 911 and B*witched creak back into action is compelling television

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