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If 911 had any deep, dark secrets, they didn’t last long once we started sticking our nose in!
LEE
Got any deep, dark secrets?
Yeah, I’m actually six foot – I fold in the middle!
You must know some juice on Spike and Jimmy, so c’mon, spill it!
Jimmy doesn’t shave – it’s just when the wind changes his facial hair blows off! I’ve got more beard growth than he has and I only shave once every three days! Spike’s the beardy one – he grows three beards a day! He wakes up every morning with a moustache.
That’s nice, but can you tell us something a bit more private?
Oh yes, but I’ll have to wait ‘til Jimmy leaves the room…right, he’s gone. He once got stripped naked in a club and danced to YMCA (dodgy ‘Seventies disco tune)! It was his birthday and he’d been drinking those drinks where you light a flame on top of them (?) and he downed lots of them. Then his mates took his clothes off and he started dancing!
What are you like when you’ve had one shandy too many?
I’m alright – I just giggle and smile a lot!
Have you ever heard any ridiculous rumours about yourself?
This isn’t funny, but a year ago there was a story about when I had cancer plastered all over the front page of my local paper. They’d asked me to do an interview and I’d said I didn’t want to talk about it just yet. They insisted they wanted to do it then, so just went ahead and did it. They put all these quotes like, ‘When I was told I had leukaemia…’ which I wouldn’t have said because that’s not what I had.
Did you do anything about it?
They were told they’d never get a 911 interview again.
So have you done stuff with them?
No, but they keep making up stories – they said I was having a secret affair with a 30 year old woman in Carlisle! They even put a phone number asking anyone who knew my ‘mystery woman’ to phone then. It’s a bid sad, really.
So are you a secret toyboy?
No! About three years ago I went out with someone who was a few years older than me, but not by that much.
Sorry!
JIMMY
So, got anything you’d like to get off your chest? I haven’t really got many secrets because what you see is what you get with me.
There must be something…
I used to do mad things in my sleep! When I was at school I was going out with a girl and I had a photo of her on my wall. Once my dad came in to wake me up because she was on the phone and I took her picture off the wall, put it to my ear and started talking to her.
That’s not normal behaviour!
I know! When we first started out and the three of us had to share a room, the other two said I used to sit up in the night and say mad things like, ‘I love your wife!’ I used to do interviews with the wall as well!
Tell us an embarrassing secret from when you were a kid…
I won a talent contest at primary school – I dressed up as Shakin’ Stevens! My dad’s still got a video of it.
Dish the dirt on Lee and Spike… I don’t know much about Lee because I’ve only known him since the band. Spike keeps himself to himself, but he did go out with someone for years and never let on to anyone, but I knew. He thought no-one knew about it – he never tells anybody anything.
Have the papers ever printed any secrets about you?
I had a sex scandal! I loved it – the headline was ‘I sleep with my fans’ and it was a load of rubbish! I only did the interview for a publicity stunt! There was also a rumour going around that I was going out with Gwen from No Doubt, which was quite funny!
So do you often lie in interviews? I told loads of lies in that sex scandal story that they didn’t print. I was a bit disappointed because I’d really gone to town making up those stories!
Are the press ever a problem?
We’ve been quite lucky. There was that story about Lee’s cancer. I thought it was awful to drag his family through it again. If he’d chosen to speak about it, fair enough, but what they did was totally out of order.
SPIKE
Tell us some secrets, then!
When I first met Jimmy he was on a dancefloor trying to do MC Hammer moves – badly, I might add. He had a beer towel hanging outside of his trousers, black gloves on with the fingers cut off and a baseball cap on backwards – he thought he was a right groover! I thought he looked a right prat!
And what did he think of you? Prat! Well, I did have a bandana round my head! I was only wearing it because I had a bad haircut – honest!
Tell us something about Lee…
He wears three pairs of socks all at once. He swaps the pairs round so when they get back to the top they don’t smell. All the socks are odd as well!
Any confessions from when you all shared a flat?
Me and Lee never did the dishes, we always left them for Jimmy. We’d fill the sink up and wait for him to go into the kitchen, because we knew if he saw them he’d do them – we’d hide behind the door and watch him do the washing up. He never sussed us!
Got any skeletons in your closet?
I’m a good boy! Well, once I smashed the windows at school when I was practising golf! I never got caught.
Have you read any stories about yourself that aren’t true?
There was one which said I’d never walk again – thing is, I did my ankle in in October and the story ran in February! They showed pictures of me on crutches, but I was dancing six weeks after I hurt myself. It made them look stupid in the end. I got a right telling off from my mum, though, because she read the story while I was away and thought it was true!
Do you worry about ex-girlfriends doing a ‘kiss ‘n’ tell’ on you?
No, ‘cause I only go out with birds from Warrington! I know they wouldn’t say anything because my mates would kill ‘em! That’s what I look for in a girl – someone who can keep her mouth shut!
Can you keep a secret? Yeah, especially on my own! No-one ever finds out what I get up to!
Taken from TV Hits Magazine
