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Daily Mail
3 days ago
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- Daily Mail
The Wanted star and former Strictly Come Dancing champion Jay McGuiness finds new career success away from boyband fame
He shot to fame as a member of boyband The Wanted in 2009. But since the group went on hiatus a decade ago, Jay McGuiness has found success in a whole new career industry, a world away from his pop star days. The singer, 34, was part of the band alongside Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Tom Parker, and Nathan Sykes, which produced number one hits like Glad You Came and All Time Low. After they disbanded in 2014, he went on to appear on Strictly Come Dancing the following year and was crowned the champion with professional dance partner Aliona Vilani. Jay's incredible dancing talent soon opened new doors, with the musician going on to forge a career in musical theatre. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. He made his West End debut in Big The Musical, based on the 1988 film Big, and played the lead character made famous by Tom Hanks. He then treaded the boards in Rip It Up opposite fellow boyband and Strictly stars, McFly's Harry Judd and JLS' Aston Merrygold, as well as starring in musical stage versions of Sleepless in Seatle and White Christmas. Jay also was one of the famous faces to take a turn at starring in 2:22 A Ghost Story, while he has been starring as William Shakespeare in the UK tour of & Juliet. He has admitted that Strictly was a 'boomerang' for him to pursue his passion for musical theatre, crediting the show for allowing him the opportunity to get on producers' radar. He previously gushed: 'I'm so thankful I did Strictly. It's the scary things that end up being rewarding. 'Whenever I feel pretty low after a long period of time it is because I have cocooned myself away from the things that are scaring me. Then you end up feeling stagnant. Every time I have pushed myself, I have felt happy I did.' He added: 'I loved the nine hour rehearsals with Strictly and my partner was a legend. I was lucky as a lot of people were still in soaps or had kids to go home to. But I was free as a bird and could train for as long as I wanted. 'The adrenaline you get from going on live television on Saturday it really knackers you. And the day after your exhausted. You get Sunday off to decompress then go again.' But Jay has also begun a whole new career far away from the world of music and stage, having become a published author. He wrote his debut fantasy novel, Blood Flowers, in February 2024, with a sequel, Poison Tides, set to be released next month. According to Waterstones, the young adult series is 'a story of love, witchcraft, betrayal and murder', which focuses on themes of poverty, class divide and addiction. Opening up on he came to write the book, Jay appeared on Westlife star Nicky Byrne's podcast in February, where he explained he had always loved the fantasy genre. He said: 'They asked if I would be interested in writing an autobiography and I was like, "heck no". But fantasy was something I knew - I'd been around it for so long, I knew what I wanted to write. 'And so I guess, it was a year of me on my laptop going for it. And then we shipped it to a few different places and Scholastic is my publisher. And that is the OG publishers. They liked my draft and away they went.' Jay explained that he had wanted to write a 'fantasy book that I would've liked to have read when I was a kid' and admitted that the story was partly inspired by his own sudden rise to stardom in The Wanted. He said: 'It's like some kid that's in a small town, where everyone's sort of on top of you and on top of each other and they you find out you've got this magical power. 'And away you go into a world where all that stuff that used to scare you isn't scary anymore and now you meet the real big bad wolves. 'And it is parallel to me being whisked off into a boyband and meeting those music execs. I felt like a fish out of water when I was back home and now that I've seen the rest of the world, I am a fish so strongly from the water that I'm from. But with magic!' And with his huge success in theatre and publishing, it seems that Jay has also decided to draw a line under his time in The Wanted, following the tragic death of his bandmate Tom. The father-of-two passed away from brain cancer at the age of 33 in March 2022, after he was diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma in October 2020, The Wanted released a greatest hits album in 2021 and performed a one-off show that same year, before they went on tour in early 2022, which ended just two weeks before Tom's death. And while members Max and Siva are touring together as The Wanted 2.0, Nathan has said that he and Jay would struggle to perform without Tom. He previously told The Sun in March: 'I'm really happy for them. They get a lot of enjoyment in performing the music and they see it as a tribute to Tom. 'I think it's really difficult imagining The Wanted as a four-piece because The Wanted has been and will only ever be a five-piece, it's difficult imagining not performing with Tom.'
Irish Independent
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
David Harbour ‘won't engage' with reports about end of marriage to Lily Allen
The Stranger Things actor and the British singer had been living together in New York, before Allen seemed to talk in January about rumours of their relationship ending. Harbour, 50, married Allen, 39, in 2020 after a year of being romantically linked. The US actor told GQ Hype he is 'protective of the people and the reality of my life'. 'There's no use in that form of engaging (with tabloid news) because it's all based on hysterical hyperbole,' he added. Harbour said it 'seems kind of silly to say this, but the art that I'm creating is about you' and about fans' 'experience of life', and not the actor on screen. 'I think, for me, it's dangerous, too, to get lost in the personality in any way,' he said. 'Whether it's good or bad, it's the same thing. It's the same feeling: it's this feeling of grasping and permanence. It's this feeling of like, 'Oh, now they love me. So do you like me now? Do you like me now? And what about now? And it's, oh, now they hate me. Well, you hate me now. Do you hate me now?' 'It's, like, whatever. I'm human. I'm working through stuff.' He played police chief Jim Hopper in science fiction adventure Stranger Things, and he said its fifth and final season being aired later this year will see a 'tremendous amount of change'. 'You can deny this change, be afraid of this change, you can kind of be chaotic about it and, like, eat your way through – whatever you need to do,' Harbour said. 'The best thing that I can do is take all of that experience and pour it into work, because my experience, no matter how awful or great, will always be useful to someone else if it's channelled through art. I can always be of use. And so that's what I'm doing.' In January, Allen announced she was taking a break from BBC podcast Miss Me? which she hosts with her friend, TV presenter Miquita Oliver, saying her mental health was 'spiralling'. She returned the next month saying she had been in a treatment centre for therapy to be her 'strongest self' for her children, and she was working on a musical in Los Angeles. Allen has increasingly turned to acting, appearing on the West End stage in 2:22 A Ghost Story, as well as in Sky series Dreamland and the West End revival of Martin McDonagh's Olivier Award-winning comedy The Pillowman. The daughter of Welsh actor Keith Allen, she began her musical career in 1998, and has had three UK number one singles and two UK number one albums. Harbour has played Soviet superhero Alexei Shostakov (the Red Guardian) in Marvel movie Black Widow and Thunderbolts*, which is about to be released, and has played the title tole in fantasy action movie Hellboy.
Powys County Times
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Powys County Times
David Harbour ‘won't engage' with reports about end of marriage to Lily Allen
Actor David Harbour has said he will not engage with 'hysterical hyperbole', while appearing to address reports of the end of his marriage to Lily Allen. The Stranger Things actor and the British singer had been living together in New York, before Allen seemed to talk in January about rumours of their relationship ending. Harbour, 50, married Allen, 39, in 2020 after a year of being romantically linked. The US actor told GQ Hype he is 'protective of the people and the reality of my life'. 'There's no use in that form of engaging (with tabloid news) because it's all based on hysterical hyperbole,' he added. Harbour said it 'seems kind of silly to say this, but the art that I'm creating is about you' and about fans' 'experience of life', and not the actor on screen. 'I think, for me, it's dangerous, too, to get lost in the personality in any way,' he said. 'Whether it's good or bad, it's the same thing. It's the same feeling: it's this feeling of grasping and permanence. It's this feeling of like, 'Oh, now they love me. So do you like me now? Do you like me now? And what about now? And it's, oh, now they hate me. Well, you hate me now. Do you hate me now?' 'It's, like, whatever. I'm human. I'm working through stuff.' He played police chief Jim Hopper in science fiction adventure Stranger Things, and he said its fifth and final season being aired later this year will see a 'tremendous amount of change'. 'You can deny this change, be afraid of this change, you can kind of be chaotic about it and, like, eat your way through – whatever you need to do,' Harbour said. 'The best thing that I can do is take all of that experience and pour it into work, because my experience, no matter how awful or great, will always be useful to someone else if it's channelled through art. I can always be of use. And so that's what I'm doing.' In January, Allen announced she was taking a break from BBC podcast Miss Me? which she hosts with her friend, TV presenter Miquita Oliver, saying her mental health was 'spiralling'. She returned the next month saying she had been in a treatment centre for therapy to be her 'strongest self' for her children, and she was working on a musical in Los Angeles. Allen has increasingly turned to acting, appearing on the West End stage in 2:22 A Ghost Story, as well as in Sky series Dreamland and the West End revival of Martin McDonagh's Olivier Award-winning comedy The Pillowman. The daughter of Welsh actor Keith Allen, she began her musical career in 1998, and has had three UK number one singles and two UK number one albums. Harbour has played Soviet superhero Alexei Shostakov (the Red Guardian) in Marvel movie Black Widow and Thunderbolts*, which is about to be released, and has played the title tole in fantasy action movie Hellboy.
The Herald Scotland
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
David Harbour ‘won't engage' with reports about end of marriage to Lily Allen
Harbour, 50, married Allen, 39, in 2020 after a year of being romantically linked. The US actor told GQ Hype he is 'protective of the people and the reality of my life'. David Harbour (Charlotte Hadden/GQ Hype/PA) 'There's no use in that form of engaging (with tabloid news) because it's all based on hysterical hyperbole,' he added. Harbour said it 'seems kind of silly to say this, but the art that I'm creating is about you' and about fans' 'experience of life', and not the actor on screen. 'I think, for me, it's dangerous, too, to get lost in the personality in any way,' he said. 'Whether it's good or bad, it's the same thing. It's the same feeling: it's this feeling of grasping and permanence. It's this feeling of like, 'Oh, now they love me. So do you like me now? Do you like me now? And what about now? And it's, oh, now they hate me. Well, you hate me now. Do you hate me now?' 'It's, like, whatever. I'm human. I'm working through stuff.' He played police chief Jim Hopper in science fiction adventure Stranger Things, and he said its fifth and final season being aired later this year will see a 'tremendous amount of change'. 'You can deny this change, be afraid of this change, you can kind of be chaotic about it and, like, eat your way through – whatever you need to do,' Harbour said. David Harbour on the cover of GQ hype (Charlotte Hadden/GQ Hype/PA) 'The best thing that I can do is take all of that experience and pour it into work, because my experience, no matter how awful or great, will always be useful to someone else if it's channelled through art. I can always be of use. And so that's what I'm doing.' In January, Allen announced she was taking a break from BBC podcast Miss Me? which she hosts with her friend, TV presenter Miquita Oliver, saying her mental health was 'spiralling'. She returned the next month saying she had been in a treatment centre for therapy to be her 'strongest self' for her children, and she was working on a musical in Los Angeles. Allen has increasingly turned to acting, appearing on the West End stage in 2:22 A Ghost Story, as well as in Sky series Dreamland and the West End revival of Martin McDonagh's Olivier Award-winning comedy The Pillowman. The daughter of Welsh actor Keith Allen, she began her musical career in 1998, and has had three UK number one singles and two UK number one albums. Harbour has played Soviet superhero Alexei Shostakov (the Red Guardian) in Marvel movie Black Widow and Thunderbolts*, which is about to be released, and has played the title tole in fantasy action movie Hellboy. Read the full feature online on GQ Hype at
BreakingNews.ie
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BreakingNews.ie
David Harbour ‘won't engage' with reports about end of marriage to Lily Allen
Actor David Harbour has said he will not engage with 'hysterical hyperbole', while appearing to address reports of the end of his marriage to Lily Allen. The Stranger Things actor and the British singer had been living together in New York, before Allen seemed to talk in January about rumours of their relationship ending. Advertisement Harbour, 50, married Allen, 39, in 2020 after a year of being romantically linked. The US actor told GQ Hype he is 'protective of the people and the reality of my life'. David Harbour (Charlotte Hadden/GQ Hype/PA) 'There's no use in that form of engaging (with tabloid news) because it's all based on hysterical hyperbole,' he added. Harbour said it 'seems kind of silly to say this, but the art that I'm creating is about you' and about fans' 'experience of life', and not the actor on screen. Advertisement 'I think, for me, it's dangerous, too, to get lost in the personality in any way,' he said. 'Whether it's good or bad, it's the same thing. It's the same feeling: it's this feeling of grasping and permanence. It's this feeling of like, 'Oh, now they love me. So do you like me now? Do you like me now? And what about now? And it's, oh, now they hate me. Well, you hate me now. Do you hate me now?' 'It's, like, whatever. I'm human. I'm working through stuff.' He played police chief Jim Hopper in science fiction adventure Stranger Things, and he said its fifth and final season being aired later this year will see a 'tremendous amount of change'. Advertisement 'You can deny this change, be afraid of this change, you can kind of be chaotic about it and, like, eat your way through – whatever you need to do,' Harbour said. David Harbour on the cover of GQ hype (Charlotte Hadden/GQ Hype/PA) 'The best thing that I can do is take all of that experience and pour it into work, because my experience, no matter how awful or great, will always be useful to someone else if it's channelled through art. I can always be of use. And so that's what I'm doing.' In January, Allen announced she was taking a break from BBC podcast Miss Me? which she hosts with her friend, TV presenter Miquita Oliver, saying her mental health was 'spiralling'. She returned the next month saying she had been in a treatment centre for therapy to be her 'strongest self' for her children, and she was working on a musical in Los Angeles. Advertisement Allen has increasingly turned to acting, appearing on the West End stage in 2:22 A Ghost Story, as well as in Sky series Dreamland and the West End revival of Martin McDonagh's Olivier Award-winning comedy The Pillowman. The daughter of Welsh actor Keith Allen, she began her musical career in 1998, and has had three UK number one singles and two UK number one albums. Harbour has played Soviet superhero Alexei Shostakov (the Red Guardian) in Marvel movie Black Widow and Thunderbolts*, which is about to be released, and has played the title tole in fantasy action movie Hellboy. Read the full feature online on GQ Hype at Advertisement
