Chubby ex Westlife dancer turned indie strummer turned power ballad failure Brian McFadden is once again tediously whoring his life out to the press.  In a blatant attempt to generate interest in his turgid upcoming album, our Brian has once again revealed something about his past life that we had no interest in ever knowing. The album, in which McFadden and his current z-list soap star girlfriend no doubt sing other peoples songs about lifting things up and holding things back, will still sink without a trace.

Brian, (didn’t it used to spelt with a ‘Y’?)who describes himself on his myspace page as "Ireland’s most controversial pop star" admitted in the Evening Herald - who no doubt pinched the story from Now Magazine, as is their want - that when he split from monster breasted drug hoover Kerry Katona (sister of ex Man Utd player Eric) four years ago, he hit the bottle in a big way. McFadden failed to elaborate whether this was out of devestation or in celebration of being rid of the world’s biggest yoke.

You see, that’s how boring Ireland’s ‘most controversial’ pop star really is. In order to have something to say to the press, he has to think back 4 years to when he was more famous for twice forgetting to wear a johnny while with Katona than he was for anything else. Phil Lynott must be spinning in his grave.

"I spent my days downing vodka and red bull and barely left my luxury pad in Portmarnock" he sobbed. "I didn’t realise that I had a problem at the time, but looking back now, I’m sure I did". Bollocks. Sounds like a great time if you ask me.

He then sticks a plug in for his new album. "My family are really important to me…but of course I’d love the album to do well".

Yeah? Well tough shit McFadden, there’s about as much chance of that happening as there is of Franklin selling out a gig in the Point Depot. If I was you, and thank fuck I’m not,  I’d concentrate less on selling a few records to 12 year old girls, and try and rescue your own kids from the frozen food hell hole where they currently reside with Katona and her one man stag party of a husband.