{"id":232387,"date":"2025-12-14T12:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/232387\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:21:14","slug":"the-big-westlife-interview-who-simon-didnt-like-who-was-the-golden-boy-would-brian-come-back-who-louis-says-were-the-guinea-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/232387\/","title":{"rendered":"The big Westlife interview: Who Simon didn\u2019t like, who was the golden boy, would Brian come back, who Louis says were the \u2018guinea pigs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nBarry Egan speaks to Kian Egan, Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne, and longtime manager, Louis Walsh\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765714874_557_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A World of their Own<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Interviewing Westlife proves to be an entertainingly complicated affair, taking months to organise, but finally coming together very quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Last week, I met Nicky Byrne in the Grand Hotel in Malahide; a few days later I was sitting across from Kian Egan in a suite in Dublin\u2019s InterContinental; on Monday it was Shane Filan\u2019s turn at his house in Sligo; and before that I met Louis Walsh in the InterContinental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barry Egan speaks to Kian Egan, Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne, and longtime manager, Louis Walsh A World of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[4747,18,117,19,17,123909,337,23942,26553],"class_list":{"0":"post-232387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-barry-egan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-louis-walsh","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-people-culture-magazine","16":"tag-westlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115717897678981025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}