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Nice guy. cruel business. mentions westlife....; louis interview
Topic Started: Nov 24 2008, 03:12 PM (84 Views)
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Taken from a Louis interview , if you wish to read the full article you can do so by visiting our Louis Walsh TOPIC

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"Am I over the hill? I probably am, in years. I know it's stupid. It's only a TV show and that's all it is at the end of the day, and we're not saving lives or curing cancer, but . . . I love it. I know it might seem like a really fake lifestyle to everybody, but I love doing it. I do know exactly what it is: it's just an escape from everyday life for people. We show them the good, the bad and the ugly side of the music business."

But when he was suddenly re-hired before his inexplicable replacement had uttered a public word, suspicions were raised that the sacking was all a PR stunt. He denies it. Who knows? "It's our job to keep the show in the news," he once said in relation to his fattist comments on RTÉ's Celebrity You're a Star . Remember that we are talking here to a world-class master of hype.

"What I am is a pop manager. It's all about the songs," he insists, and yet his clients, uniquely, have regularly diced with death and devastation, and always when a tour or new album was in the offing. So, to name but a few Westlife incidents, not only was Kian nearly savaged by a lion in South Africa but he almost plunged to his death in Belfast; Shane nearly drowned in a freak wave in Miami; Mark was threatened with blindness from camera bulbs popping, and Bryan with deafness if he ever got on a plane again.

The "best one ever", though, says Louis, grinning, was the one about the band's plane crash-landing in Australia. This went down a treat with the showbiz reporters but for one teeny problem: "I just forgot to tell the parents. And the plane was a bit rattly." Right.

It's called promotion, Louis beams, citing a notice on the great Paul McGuinness's office wall: "A terrible thing happens if you don't promote. Nothing."
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Irish times
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