1RM Thursday, September 29, 2016 5 BABY JOY FOR RHYS MEYERS......

Over the moon . . . smitten couple Mara and Jonathan are They are delighted with their baby news loved up and can’t wait for their tot

Horizontal hugs . . . Rhys Meyers embraces Natalie Dormer in The Tudors

JONATHAN Rhys Meyers’ EXCLUSIVE by KEN SWEENEY flowers best Hubby, J.” Last state with bloodshot eyes and his break in the UK hit Bend It Like Showbiz Editor month, Jonathan was among those fly open. He later issued a state- Beckham. But he is best known partner is having a baby, who paid their respects at the ment apologising for the “minor for his role as King Henry VIII in we can reveal. funeral of ‘Batman’ Ben Farrell relapse”, telling fans: “Mara and I the Irish-shot series The Tudors. Beautiful Mara Lane is recent times. It was revealed this who died last month after losing are thankful for your support and Jonathan has faced rehab up to week that Mara changed the name his battle against cancer. kindness during this time. six times in the past. He first about 28 weeks pregnant and of her Instagram page — which she The Dublin youngster, five, was “I apologise for having a minor went to the famous Promises facil- the couple are over the moon shared with dog Toca — to ‘Lane diagnosed with an aggressive relapse and hope that people don’t ity in Malibu in May 2005. about the news, the Irish Sun Rhys Meyers’. tumour last Christmas Eve. think too badly of me.” He also faced charges after sev- has learned. Jonathan posed for a photoshoot The Tudors star had met the lad Since then he has been spotted eral incidents while under the A source said: “They are both with a gold band on his wedding on the set of TV show Vikings. enjoying life — without the booze — influence of alcohol, including delighted and can’t wait for the finger back in June. Rhys Meyers has publicly battled with his partner, Mara. being arrested in Dublin Airport arrival of a tiny tot into their He was also spotted wearing the demons for years, and had been And at the beginning of the year in 2007 for being drunk and in lives. They are very loved up and same gold band in a picture on living clean since 2011 until May they were seen going to a doctor’s breach of the peace. are so excited.” Mara’s Instagram page. 2015 when he suffered a setback. surgery in Beverly Hills together. In 2010, he was barred from The couple got engaged in 2014 And, in a post five months ago, The thespian was pictured swig- The Irish star appeared in ever flying with United Airlines and it is believed they may even the actress and producer wrote: ging vodka from the bottle in a several films, including Michael again after he drunkenly abused a have secretly tied the knot in “Thank you for my Mother’s Day London street and in a dishevelled Collins, before making his big member of staff in JFK Airport. 6 ...... Sunday, February 19, 2017 1RM 1RM Sunday, February 19, 2017 ...... 7 Punters TOUT ROW OVER pay €22m KEITH FIRES BROADSIDE AT WESTLIFE DUO IRISH punters spent €22m at one of the UK’s ED’S CHARITY GIG biggest horse racing events last year, a new A WEBSITE was blasted yester- By NEIL SYSON study claims. day for touting charity tickets to The research by the an Ed Sheeran child cancer con- ondary tickets will be refused entry. University of Gloucester- However, a statement on Viagogo’s shire shows almost one in cert for up to €6,000. three tickets for the Chel- Viagogo was accused of “moral website said “buyers of tickets for this repugnance” over next event will be accompanied into the tenham Festival are pur- month’s sold-out gig in Lon- venue by the seller”. chased by Irish racegoers. don in aid of the Teenage Anti-touting campaigners A crowd of more than Cancer Trust. Tickets had Fan Fair Alliance said: “Not 260,000 attends the fes- originally cost around €90. only are Viagogo encouraging tival annually which kicks The charity raged: “The touts to sell these tickets at off on March 14 next. Boyzone rivals . . Westlife on stage only people who should profit vastly inflated prices, none of GET A LIFE .. from Teenage Cancer Trust at which goes back to the char- the Royal Albert Hall are ity, they attempt to circum- GROUND FORCE By KEN SWEENEY, Showbiz Editor young people with cancer.” vent the terms and conditions Locals in a Co Kerry It insisted that buyers’ by advertising that the buyer village have threatened to KEITH Duffy has launched a identification will be “rigor- will be accompanied into the lie on a road to stop a venue by the seller.” blistering attack on ously checked” at the event Tickets . . . Ed works contractor throwing and anyone caught with sec- Viagogo did not comment. rubble and soil on it. “arrogant” boybanders Kian Egan and Nicky Byrne, insisting: “They think they’re Bob Dylan.” The former Boyzone hunk dismissed the pair as average and egotistical, outshone in Westlife by the talented Shane Filan and Mark Feehily. The 42-year-old hit back after neg- YOU’RE NOT ative comments from Kian and Nicky about Keith’s sold-out Boyzlife shows with ex-Westlife singer Brian McFadden. As Boyzlife return with a string of dates around Ireland, in which they perform Boyzone and Westlife hits, Keith’s explosive comments mark the most bitter ever traded between members of Boyzone and Westlife. He told the Irish Sun: “I don’t care what Kian and Nicky think about Boyzlife. Both of them take them- selves way too seriously and have big egos. “Shane Filan and Mark Feehily were the great singers in Westlife and Kian and Nick weren’t, but they go on as though they were brilliant. BOB DYLAN Westlife take themselves way too seriously. “Both Boyzone and Westlife played to screaming girls, we were pop bands. While myself and Brian acknowledge that, Kian and Nicky ‘Arrogant’ . . think they are Bob Dylan and U2, Kian, left, singing songs about humanity and lKian and Nicky ‘take saving the world. and Nicky “They need to chill out and start enjoying themselves.” Keith claims himself and partner Brian have at all times remained grounded and in touch with the fans themselves too seriously’ who made them famous. He said: “There are lots of people in this business who’ve been as successful as we are but remain as grounded. You don’t have to look too far to find fellas with massive egos and massive pride. “That to me just gets in the way of lRival tours on cards for us being human. We were all just ordinary blokes in Boyzone and ‘They need to Westlife.” chill out’ . . . Keith admits that neither himself nor Brian talk to the members of Keith takes aim Westlife but predicts both Boyzone at Westlifers and Westlife could both hit the road Kian and Nicky Westlife & Boyzone in 2018 next year with rival tours. He said: “Westlife are 20 years together next year so I’m sure there’s talk of them getting back together for that anniversary. “It’s the same for Boyzone, we’ve just signed a brand new deal with Warner Music for a new album and an arena tour.” lDuffy was ‘disturbed’ by Keith and Brian sit side by side in matching armchairs swapping stories in Boyzlife which comes to UCH Limerick on May 4 and Cork Opera House on May 5. But the two men admit they might Jedward’s behaviour on CBB have been at war in the same boyband. Keith said: “As young men we would have been trying to outdo each other, we’re too similar, also “disturbed” by the behaviour of their manager. They need someone deen and it’s great to be anonymous in Ireland. My heart goes out to The Boyzlife gigs, we don’t just do whereas in Boyzlife, we can relax Irish twins Jedward — who at one with decades of experience to get in Dublin.” them.” tours, we do corporate events.A and go with the flow.” stage were seen washing each other them a new show on kids’ TV.” Asked what really makes him Keith is well known for helping cruise around the Mediterranean, the The actor and singer admits in in the bath. Meanwhile, Keith and Brian want angry, his answer has nothing to do those in need. Last year the Keith Galway Races. Our management do a between rehearsals he watched some Keith said: “It was strange behav- to turn their Boyzlife tour success with Boyzone or Westlife. Duffy Foundation raised €28,000 for fantastic job. of the latest season of Celebrity Big iour. I was disturbed. I would love to into a risqué late-night telly show. The star said: “I met a man the Cliona’s Foundation — an Irish char- “But I don’t perform because I Brother, having appeared in the first separate Jedward for six months to Keith revealed: “It would have to other day whose daughter has MS. ity that provides financial assistance need the money,I love being on series in 2001. see how they would get on because I be after-hours because you never She needs stem-cell treatment in to families with critically and termi- stage. If I do six weeks in a John B Keith said his jaw dropped watch- don’t think it’s healthy for two young know what Brian and myself would Mexico. Her dad is fundraising to get nally ill children. Keane play in Dublin, that might ing the crazy rants of How Clean Is men to spend that much time with say to one another. We couldn’t be her to Mexico but when she comes He has also funded a hub for edu- only be 600 or 700 quid a week, Your House star Kim Woodburn at one another. trusted to keep it clean because we’re back to Ireland, she will need medi- cating young people with autism who which wouldn’t pay all my bills but fellow housemates. “They are 25-year-old men but trying to make each other laugh.” cation and chemo for the following are over the age of 18. what would I be doing? I have to be He said: “I have never met that they have the social skills of young The pair have decided to skip the year. But her medical insurance But he admits his finances were out working. I couldn’t be sitting at woman and I hope I don’t ever have children.” capital on their upcoming tour. won’t pay for it because the opera- hit by the crash. home.” to. The way she behaved towards the Ye t Keith recognises the Grimes Keith explained: “We haven’t done tion in Mexico has yet to be Keith said: “Nobody was safe in Boyzlife will be supported by Aus- younger girls was disgraceful. How twins remain loved. He said: “Jed- gigs outside Dublin in years so these approved in Ireland. the crash. I lost quite a bit of money. tralian X Factor winner, and Home can someone of that age be so nasty ward always have time for their fans. dates are exciting. Anyway Dublin is “This poor man and his family are “A lot of people lost on their and Away star Samantha Jade on and toxic.” That’s why they are still there.I where we live, we come back from desperately trying to find the money investments but you can’t cry over their Irish dates. More details at Dad-of-two Keith admits he was really wish they had Louis Walsh as crazy shows in Newcastle or Aber- for the operation and her treatment spilt milk, you’ve got to start again. boyzlifetour.com. 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By KEN SWEENEY, Showbiz Editor CELEBRITY chef Dylan McGrath today lays bare how he has lost his ability to taste food as he fights daily agony. The Masterchef Ireland star hyhyhi also reveals how he downed 14 pills a day to fight the chronic pain and paralysis that has left hyhyhi him four stone overweight. McGrath, 39, said: “I thought CHER-ILL it was game over. The illness has taken away my sense of taste.” hyhyhi IT’S Full Story — Pages Four and Five SPLIT HELL SEE PAGE 15 GAME

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Kitchen nightmare . . . OVER Dylan fighting pain DUNDALK...... 1 ZENIT...... 2 MAN UTD...... 4 lCan’t taste lUp 4 stone lEndless pain FENERBAHCE....1 SEE SUNSPORT 4 ...... McFriday, OctoberGR 21, 2016 ATH LIFTS1RM LID ON HELLHELL WITH BIZ, BACK1RM AND TABLFriday,ETS October 21, 2016 ...... 5 Stellar career of All sorts of kitchen thoughts master I can’t taste can go 1977 BORN in Dublin. Spent the first Good friends . . . Dylan and Nick; through six years of his life growing up in Carlow before his family below, chef Christine O’Sullivan moved to the Falls Road in your head Belfast. As a teenager he stud- ied at Portrush Catering School before going on to the Belfast Institute. 1998 HE landed his first job in the food industry at the Jury’s Inn hotel in Belfast before moving on to Roscoff’s — the only Michelin star restaurant in Northern Ireland at the time. 1999 A YOUNG McGrath soon left the Roscoff to join the team at anything... Conrad Gallagher’s Peacock Alley eatery in Dublin. He then EXCLUSIVE by KEN SWEENEY jetted to the UK where he Showbiz Editor worked in the two Michelin stars restaurant L’Ortolan by CELEBRITY chef Dylan John Burton Race in Reading. McGrath has admitted dark 2002 THE talented chef returned to thoughts went through his Dublin to work in Aidan head after his chronic back Byrne’s Commons restaurant. 2003 injury left him unable to HE was called back to the UK taste food. to work in Tim Aiken’s new The Masterchef Ireland star diner in Chelsea as head chef. suffered paralysis in his arm 2006 McGRATH came back to and leg following a back con- Dublin to head up Mint restau- dition that left him hospital- rant, which was awarded a ised for months on end, Michelin star in 2008. downing numerous tablets a 2008 day, and four stone overweight. I was on MADE his first appearance on Dylan told the Irish Sun: “The TV in RTE’s Guerrilla Gourmet worst thing was the doctors didn’t cooking show before featur- know what was wrong with me. I ing in the fly-on-the-wall docu- was screaming at the top of my mentary The Pressure Cooker. voice with back pain I was feeling 2010 and that was on a daily basis. DYLAN opened his own Rustic “My whole arm was numb. I Stone restaurant in Dublin. couldn’t feel one whole side of my 2011 body. I was on 12-14 tablets that I McGRATH is announced as a had to take as the day went on. It judge on RTE’s hit show Mas- was pure hell.” terchef, which aired in Sep- The chef added: “The pain was tember. It was around this time excruciating. I thought my life was that the pain in his back began over. When you’re faced with some- to torment him as he prepared thing like this, all sorts of things go to open his Fade Street restau- through your head. It affects you so rant in Dublin. much, it just robs you of your spirit. 2015 “But I am a resilient person. I fought this tooth and nail and I THE chef reaches breaking will continue to keep fighting.” point and goes under the knife Despite the agony he still suffers 14 pills in November after trying a night and day, the Belfast man range of different methods to decided to go off painkillers The pain I clear up his aching back. because it robs him of the creativ- Doctors told him it would ity he needs to be a top chef. take six weeks to recover after Dylan said: “I rely on the young have is the operation. However things chefs I have working for me took a turn for the worse and because the illness has taken away nerve damage left him in pain my sense of taste. I’m a creative, horrific every time he moved his arm. artistic person and all that stopped. But since coming off the tablets that side of me is coming back.” but I have As a star of TV’s Masterchef, Dylan was one of the most famous cooks in Ireland and about to open to go on his latest restaurant in May 2015 when his world fell apart. He said: “I had problems with my back for years. It was really a time bomb waiting to happen. Back in business . . “Overnight, I went from being an a day Dylan at his Rustic able-bodied person going to the gym three times a week to someone Stone restaurant in the most incredible pain 24 as he struggles hours a day.” Desperate to promote his latest with chronic pain venture, Dylan went on Brendan O’Connor’s old Saturday night chat show heavily dosed with painkillers. rilla Gourmet was suffering from a sumed with dark thoughts. Dylan that it might be horrible now but back problem and working with a affecting my mindset. What has dards slipping, is terrifying.” returns to TV3 in January. He said: through this illness. McGrath said: His rambling performance nerve condition called Complex recalled: “When you’re faced with things do get better. You have to hypnotherapist in an attempt to helped is that I have an Along with family and the “Masterchef was never going to be “I’m not going out so I haven’t seen shocked the nation and prompted Regional Back Syndrome. something like that, all sorts of keep trying.” overcome his pain. incredible team of chefs around team in his restaurant, the an option. I just had to tell them I Nick in months but he did text me calls from friends and family. The diagnosis proved the most things go through your head. People Dylan’s misery continued until Dylan admits to being slightly me. The illness I went through foodie has also relied on a was very sick and wouldn’t be asking if I was okay. Dylan said: “When I did Bren- terrifying moment yet for the bed- who were less strong might have November 2015 when he underwent embarrassed of his appearance, means I can’t taste food any- special friend. taking part — but I wish them all “We are friends. When you are dan’s TV show,I was at my very ridden TV star. felt suicidal. surgery and was given a recovery having gained weight, but as he more so I rely on the young He admits: “Yes, I have had the best.” thrown into an environment like worst. But I had to keep going Dylan said: “The doctors told me “But I guess perseverance is part time of six weeks. sips tea in his acclaimed eaterie guys to taste for me.” the support of somebody in the And he admits to having mixed Masterchef and you have to work because we had made a huge I could have this for the rest of my of the human spirit. If you have However, things got worse and Rustic Stone, in Dublin, he is back He admits he suffered sleep- past year. No names but I am feelings about his TV fame. together for months and months, investment and I was responsible. I life. It was all shrouded in mystery. been through dark periods before, nerve damage became a problem, in the business he loves. less nights wondering what seeing somebody. Does she Dylan said: “I am not a TV per- there is a connection.” had to keep going and didn’t stop I felt so broken.I was listening to you know you can come out the with the pain moving to his arm Dylan said: “I’ve withdrawn, I would happen to his three res- work in the business? No, I am sonality. Despite the fact that I was Dylan has now vowed to get pushing myself forward.” them unable to get out of bed. other side. He recalled: “I couldn’t move my don’t go out. I can’t go out for din- taurants during his long illness. not answering that.” embraced on TV and people liked back to full health. As a result, his condition wor- “I couldn’t eat anything. I was “What struck me, as well, is that arm for three months. That was ner because I can’t taste anything Dylan said: “To stay in busi- The life-changing illness also me on TV, that’s not my job. Pre- He said: “I feel more human sened and Dylan found himself thinking ‘this is it, my life is over’. so many people across Ireland suf- terrifying.” and I don’t want to meet people. ness you have to be consistent. meant Dylan had to turn down senters do that. I’m a restaurateur now. I want to put myself back hospitalised and unable to move. I could never lead my team again, fer from chronic pain but they just After nine months in the Mater “The pain I have is still horrific Remember, I was bankrupt a role in TV’s Masterchef, — that’s what I do.” together. I will and I am doing After a number of scans, doctors that I wouldn’t heal from this.” He keep going. Private hospital, Dylan was finally but I have to go on. I stopped the before so the idea of being which was filming over the Fellow Masterchef judge Nick that. I have to get through this.I confirmed the former star of Gue- admits that was when he was con- “What you have in your brain is discharged. He is still battling his painkillers because the tablets were exposed to that again, of stan- summer in a celeb version, and Munier offered Dylan support am not there yet — but I will be.” Frying hard . . . Dylan