

(Interestingly, McVaid also got his start in a boy band, the short-lived British act V.) The couple became engaged in 2010 but split the following year. One of the Irish boy band Westlife's three lead singers, Mark Feehily came out in August 2005 during an interview with the British tabloid The Sun, revealing that he had been living with British fashion photographer Kevin McVaid since January of that year. (Elton John had introduced the two seven years before.) Sadly, in 2009 Gately died at home of an undiagnosed congenital heart defect. In 2003 the singer wed Andrew Cowles, a businessman, in a civil ceremony.

In 1999, at the height of Boyzone's fame, Stephen Gately, one of the act's two lead singers, learned that an acquaintance intended to sell details of his sexuality to the press. "We went to dinner last night and it took us a good hour to decide."īoyzone was an immensely popular Irish boy band, with 16 consecutive Top 5 singles in Great Britain.

So it helped." However, Knight added, once the show stopped taping, the couple immediately retreated to their old ways. "There's no time to say, 'Hey, are we going to do it or not? Who's going to do it?' You just do it. "Because you're making decisions immediately," Knight told Entertainment Tonight. Knight told one interviewer that the couple, together for seven years, knew both their strengths and weaknesses going into the reality show challenge, admitting it helped them to work on their indecisiveness. This year he and partner Harley Rodriguez, 41, a fitness coach, have been seen traveling the world together on The Amazing Race. Knight, now 46, worked as a real estate developer during his years off from the act, which regrouped in 2008 and still tours today. NKOTB was the biggest boy band of the 1980s, selling more than 80 million records, until Knight dropped out in 1994 due to anxiety and panic attacks, dissolving the camera-friendly quintet. Everybody’s wanted us to do something together and now we get to come together for an amazing cause.3. McLean added, "This has been a long time coming. "We’ve come together for a cause greater than ourselves, so let’s let it blossom into something." "We were just on stage going, 'Maybe we should do a supergroup and tour and do an album,' " Carter told Variety. McLean said there's "hopefully more to come," and they are open to the possibility of a tour. If you missed your shot at the nostalgia, don't fret. "Back-Sync" performed the NSYNC hit "Bye Bye Bye" and Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way," complete with signature choreography, and although it "might sound crazy," according to McLean, "BACK-SYNC ain’t no lie!!!" Lance Bass, husband Michael Turchin are going to be parents, expecting twins via surrogacy "I want to thank my brother Nick Carter and my two adopted brothers, Joey Fatone and Lance Bass." "(Friday) night was our first performance hopefully of many as 'Back-Sync,' " McLean said in a TikTok video Saturday night. "Back-Sync" made their debut performance Friday night at Bingo Under the Stars in Los Angeles, a Pride event benefitting L.A. "It’s interesting to have the four of us knuckleheads do something together, which you’ve never seen before," Fatone told Variety over the weekend. "BSB fans are very loyal, so we’re going, ‘We get it – certain people liked one band or the other back in the day, but now it’s okay to like both.' " Carter added, "Better late than never, right?" During the boy band rivalry era of the late '90s and early 2000s, there was no question more important than whether you were Team Backstreet Boys or Team NSYNC.īackstreet Boys members AJ McLean and Nick Carter partnered up with NSYNC’s Joey Fatone and Lance Bass to create the ultimate boy-band: "Back-Sync."
