Mark Feehily: 'I want to have children' 

Westlife’s Mark Feehily tells new! all about his wedding plans and his hopes to start a family

Mark Feehily and the Westlife boys aren’t exactly known for being outrageous.

So when we sat down with Mark Feehily to find out about his recent engagement to former V singer Kevin McDaid, 26, we weren’t expecting him to tell us they’re getting married in a dungeon wearing leather hot pants. And he didn’t.

In fact, he played it so safe and kept their plans so under wraps that we were forced instead to probe him about stalkers, having babies and Brian McFadden.

Mark, 29, is prettier in the flesh than he appears on TV – his eyelashes are long enough to swing from. He’s polite, serious and, after coming out and meeting Kevin five years ago, seems happier than ever.

Indeed, when the couple got engaged in February, he could barely contain himself on Twitter. “It’s true! Myself and Kevin are engaged! Exciting times ahead!” he wrote.

We’re here to discuss Westlife’s forthcoming pay-per-view gig on Sky, but there are far more pressing concerns – namely, the engagement.

Here, Mark tells new! how he feels about popping the question, and why he doesn’t miss Brian McFadden…

Congratulations on getting engaged. How are you feeling about the wedding?

Thank you! There’s nothing planned as of yet, it’s just an engagement. We’re enjoying being engaged and obviously we’re excited about various different concepts for the wedding, but nothing has been decided upon. Both of us are very creative-minded people with a million ideas, so there’ll be a lot of time before we lock down exactly what it will be.

But will it be big and lavish?

I’d be lying if I said I had any idea.

You could arrive at your wedding by helicopter…

Well, I don’t have one, but Shane [Filan] does. Maybe I could borrow his…

What about outfits?

We haven’t planned anything [laughing]! I could make it up if you want.

Yeah, make it up! So who proposed?

That’s private. We may talk about it one day but I haven’t spoken to Kevin yet about that.

Do you want to have kids?

I’m surrounded by children because Shane and Nicky [Byrne] have kids. I love kids and there’s nothing like the gift of bringing up your own kids. It would be nice if I got to the place where I was ready to bring up a kid.

What’s Kevin doing now?

He’s a photographer and has been for the last three or four years. He’s getting more work these days and he’s done a lot of people’s album artwork. He did all the new Jedward pictures, so I’m very excited for him.

There was a story about you having a Facebook stalker, is that true?

Well, not on Facebook. There’s been a couple of situations on Twitter, and in real life, where there are some people who seem to have issues of their own that manifested in the form of abuse towards me. But it’s something I’ve become accustomed to over the years. There’s always one. There are also millions of sane, gorgeous fans, too, so it’s only one in a million.

Since you came out, do you get much more flirtatious attention from men?

Well, the nature of Westlife is a lot more centred on female attention, but I’ve seen more guys in the audience since I came out. A lot of people would appreciate the honesty of me coming out, and I think a lot of gay guys that wouldn’t have paid attention to the records before maybe turned their heads a bit, and feel they relate more to the members.

How are you feeling about turning 30 this month?

I’m feeling very positive about it – I’m much happier now than I was at 20 or 21.

How did Stephen Gately’s death affect you?

We knew Stephen to a certain extent but not as closely as people might assume. The reality is, we didn’t even live in the same part of Ireland. But it was very sad and tragic.

Do you still see your former bandmate Brian McFadden?

Well, he lives in Australia, so you can imagine how much we see him. The last time we saw him was at Stephen’s funeral, but we don’t see him a lot. He’s very much moved on in his life.

Westlife Live From The O2 is on Friday, May 14 on Sky Box Office/HD Events Channel at 8pm. Catch replays from Saturday, May 15. Westlife – Here We Are on Monday, May 10 on Sky Movies Family/HD at 4pm

Fuente: www.new-magazine.co.uk