This article is from the source 'bbc' and was first published or seen on . It will not be checked again for changes.
You can find the current article at its original source at http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/8301187.stm
The article has changed 22 times. There is an RSS feed of changes available.
Version 0 | Version 1 |
---|---|
Boyzone's Stephen Gately is dead | Boyzone's Stephen Gately is dead |
(10 minutes later) | |
The Boyzone singer Stephen Gately, 33, has been found dead while on holiday in Majorca. | |
The group's tour website said that he had "tragically died" and that the rest of the band would be flying out to Majorca on Sunday. | |
The website also said Gately had been on holiday with his long-term partner Andy Cowles when he died on Saturday. | |
Boyzone announced their comeback tour last November. The band had six UK number one hits between 1994 and 2000. | |
The News of the World's showbusiness editor Dan Wootton told Sky News Gately had gone out for drinks, returned to his accommodation and gone to sleep, but never woke up. | |
Boyzone manager Louis Walsh told the newspaper: "We're all absolutely devastated." | |
He said: "I'm in complete shock. I was only with him on Monday at an awards ceremony. We don't know much about what's happened yet. | |
"I only heard after The X Factor and we will rally around each other this week. He was a great man." | |
Gately revealed that he was gay and had a boyfriend in June 1999. | Gately revealed that he was gay and had a boyfriend in June 1999. |
The two later married in a private civil partnership ceremony in London in 2006. | |
After Boyzone split Gately continued his career as a solo artist, but was dropped by Polydor in 2001 after three Top 20 singles. | |
He enjoyed further success performing in musicals, including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 2003-04. | |
Gately also appeared in 2007 on ITV1's reality series Dancing on Ice, and was voted Hero of 1999 at the Smash Hits Poll Winners' Party. |