Best Life - December 2006

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Nicky Tells How Becoming A Dad To Twins Is Like A Dream Come True

WESTLIFE star Nicky Byrne yesterday reflected on becoming a dad to twins, and joked: "I just hope I don't lose my snooker room."

Pop idol Nicky and his wife, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's eldest daughter, Georgina, are getting set to revamp their exclusive home in Malahide, Dublin, for the arrival of twins, due next June.

The excited couple told the Sunday World that they intend to wait until the births to find out the sex of their first born children.

"We both decided that we are going to leave that to the day. It's going to be such a surprise," Nicky revealed in an exclusive interview.

When they were initially told that Georgina was pregnant they had asked her best-selling author sister, Cecelia, and Nicky's younger brother, Adam, to be godparents.

Godparents

"Now we have to think about another set of godparents and more names, which is great," he says.

The clean-cut entertainer is bubbling with excitement at the latest news, which he revealed earlier this week.

"We've known for a few weeks and it's been hard not to let it out. We just wanted to take it all in ourselves before we said anything," Nicky revealed.

"We found out when Georgina went in for the first scan. Some of our friends had told us what to expect, but nothing prepares you; when you're in there and the doctor shows you Baby Byrne and Baby Byrne Two, and the healthy hearts beating.

"It brings a tear to your eye. Even now I'm getting emotional thinking about it.

"It's just the most fantastic thing that could have happened to us.

"I've had the most amazing year in Westlife and this just tops it completely. This is just every Christmas come at once for us."

It's been a long-held ambition of Nicky that his children would see him perform during the heyday of his pop career with Westlife.

"That's the one thing I've wanted all along," he reveals. "No matter how young they were, once they saw it I was going to be happy.

"There's never a guarantee how long you'll last in the music business but Westlife is flying at the moment. We are now negotiating a new contract with our record label that could give us another five or six years.

"That at least guarantees that they'll see me at some point.

"They might be too young to remember but at least they'll have seen it.

"I might be able to get an opportunity to bring them on stage with me in the summer of 2008, if we are lucky enough to be touring then.

"That's what Brian did with his kids when he was in the group and Shane did it with Nicole's birthday at one of the gigs in England. Just things like that I'm really looking forward to."

Amid the joy of being pregnant, Nicky reveals that Georgina has been coping with extreme nausea and sickness.

"For the first four to six weeks literally every day was bad," he says. "She's getting a lot better now. She's having days where she's more free from it.

"Georgina is big into physical fitness and I'm trying to keep her off the treadmill. But being a fitness instructor, she knows herself what to do.

"You get a lot of people coming to you in that business and she knows first hand what she should or should not be doing."

 

Credit/Source: Sunday World / Angela