WOMAN gets up close and personal as Westlife answer
your questions
This year, Valentine's Day is likely to be quiet for the Westlife boys - Shane Filan, 28, Nicky Byrne, 29, Mark Feehily, 27, and Kian Egan, 27 - as they are busy rehearsing for their Back Home arena tour.
Shane and his wife Gillian will be having a night in with their daughter Nicole, two, while Nicky and his wife Georgina will no doubt be busy with nine-month-old twins Rocco and Jay. Mark will be cooking a roast dinner for his boyfriend Kevin McDaid, and Kian wants a romantic meal with his fiancee, actress Jodi Albert.
But the boys have still found time to open their hearts and answer all the romantic questions WOMAN readers posed to them.
Kian, were you very nervous about proposing to Jodi
last Christmas?
Victoria Hart, Preston, Lancs.
Kian: Yes, I kept thinking how I only ever want to ask that question once! But
even though I was nervous, I really did enjoy doing it because I knew Jodi was
not going to say no! The wedding will be sometime in 2009.
If you could relive a romantic moment in your life,
what would it be and why?
Catherine Hiscoke, Plymouth, Devon.
Shane: It's got to be either my wedding day or the day our daughter Nicole was
born. Gillian and I were friends for years before we started dating, but it
didn't take long for me to realise that I didn't want to be with anyone else.
I know that Gillian loved me before the band, before the money or fame.
Mark: will you tie the knot with your boyfriend Kevin?
Carmel Flood, Byfleet, Surrey.
Mark: We've no plans just now, but if and when it happens, it will be a big
craic. Kevin's really been embraced by our fans - he even gets his own fan mail!
How do your partners feel about the attention you get?
Eleanor Mulligan, South London.
Nicky: Georgina's absolutely fine with it but I really hate it when we're out
together and a group of girls come up to me and then act like Georgina's not
there. But she just laughs about it and sings that old Carpenters song Close
To You that goes, 'Why do birds suddenly appear…' That's her little joke.
Has anyone had a stalker?
Ros Howard, Bisly, Surrey.
Kian: We all have but I had one from Switzerland and she'd follow us all around
Europe when we were on tour, giving me letters saying she loved me. The next
thing I know, she's moved to my hometown in Ireland and she still lives there!
Who gets the dirtiest fan mail?
Elaine Fitzgerald, Portsmouth, Hants.
Mark: One fan sent me a DVD of her having sex with her boyfriend and I have
also been sent used sex toys, I open my post with Marigolds on these days.
Nicky, when did you realise Georgina was the one?
Sally Joyce, Watford, Hertfordshire.
Nicky: This sounds corny, but I remember coming home from school when I was
14 and saying to my mum: 'I've seen the girl I'm going to marry'.
Shane, Kian and Mark: Aahh!
What food would you give to seduce someone?
June O'Dell, Bath, Somerset.
Shane: I just give Gillian a hot chocolate with marshmallow!
Kian: You need to be more adventurous than that! I'd make a chilli so hot that
Jodi would have to start unpeeling her layers…
What do you wear in bed?
Angela Caine, Glasgow
Mark: Depends on my mood!
Kian: Just my undies
Shane: Usually boxer shorts and a T-shirt, I don't like wearing too much.
Nicky: Nothing!
Westlife's new single Us Against The World is released on February 25. Their Back Home arena tour kicks off on the same day.
Credit/Source: Woman Magazine / Thanx Joanne at westlifefanaticvip.com (for the scans), Gloria (for typing it up) and Rachel (for the scans)