The professional and personal lives of Boyzone are being re-examined in an upcoming Sky documentary, titled Boyzone: No Matter What, which will see the boys open up about Louis Walsh
Shane Lynch has insisted he still loves Boyzone manager Louis Walsh despite bitterly clashing with him.
The 48-year-old singer is a member of the iconic Welsh pop group along with Keith Duffy, 50, Michael Graham, 52, and lead singer Ronan Keating, 47. The band also included late singer Stephen Gately, who tragically passed away due to a heart condition at the age of 33 in 2009.
Boyzone, who formed in 1993, have been propelled back into the public consciousness thanks to a new documentary titled Watch Boyzone: No Matter What on Sky Documentaries. The special is due to air next Sunday, 2 February, and will show the band sharing their thoughts and memories during their time in the charts and beyond.
The group were famously managed by X Factor judge Louis Walsh, 72 – and it seems they had a relationship that was as fractured as all the other acts the Irish music expert worked with over the years. But Shane has defended the old manager – while also reflecting on the difficulties of working with him.
In the documentary, Shane says: “Louis is an uneasy character, he always has been. He’s socially awkward but his one-liners are what save him. They’re what gave him his career.
“He said some stuff about all of us in the past that we weren’t happy with but it’s just him. You can’t get annoyed with him.” Louis has criticised the boys for allowing their “egos” to grow at the same impressive rate as their fame during their chart-topping heyday.
But Shane explained: “He would say something like that on camera and then you’d go speak to him, to his face, and he’d say, ‘you know I don’t mean it lads, I’m just getting the front page!’ That’s what he was fantastic at.”
The singer added: “I love the man. I love Louis Walsh. I’d love to sit down and have a beer with him at any point in life because everything’s cool.” The update comes just hours after reports suggest Boyzone “despise” their old manager. A source told the Daily Mail: “The scars are still there, the hurt ran very, very deep.
“They are still all so cross about it all. All of these years and there is so much bad blood … they have moved on but forgiveness has been almost impossible.” And while there are allegedly tense feelings within the former group, it’s thought their feelings towards Louis are in unison.
They are said to “despise” their former manager, with the Daily Mail claiming only the late Stephen Gately, who died in 2009, had remained on speaking terms with the former X Factor judge. Meanwhile, fans don’t have much longer to wait to watch all the highs and lows of Boyzone’s career when the documentary hit screens next month.
A synopsis for the documentary states: “They were one of the most successful and iconic boybands of all time but behind-the-scenes, conflict and rivalry, betrayal and tragedy led to their falling apart. Now, thirty years on, all four remaining members – Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Shane Lynch and Michael ‘Mikey’ Graham, as well as their estranged manager, Louis Walsh reveal the truth of what really happened, the extraordinary highs of their meteoric rise to fame, and the huge costs that being in a boyband had on each of them”.
In addition to the four Dublin lads, Louis will also be sharing his perspective on Boyzone’s success and their intense media coverage and scrutiny in the three-part series.
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