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We weten dat dit een super lang interview is, maar het is te leuk om niet met jullie te delen! We hebben wel een aantal Ramin vragen eruit geknipt, maar als je het hele interview nog wil lezen, klik dan even op de bron onder de titel.

Interview: Tom Fletcher and Ramin Karimloo
Source: OK Magazine

The singing stars talk nudity, weddings and forward fans over lunch at Kettner's

WHO said rock ’n’ roll and stage musicals don’t make great companions? You’d never believe it, but McFly’s founding member and key songwriter Tom Fletcher and West End star Ramin Karimloo, best known from Les Misérables and The Phantom Of The Opera, are best buddies – and are even threatening to make some music together one of these days!

‘I’m a huge musical theatre fan, and it’s part of my upbringing,’ says 26-year-old Tom, who reminds us that he took the lead role in Oliver! when he was ten years old. ‘So when I first bumped into Ramin a few years ago, I had to get some tickets to see him in Love Never Dies, and then we went out for a meal. That’s where our friendship kicked off.’

As for Olivier-nominated Ramin, who was born in Iran but grew up in Canada, there’s clearly a rock ’n’ roller waiting to come out from behind the grandeur of his stately stage roles. ‘My favourite band of all time is Canadian rock group the Tragically Hip – and Tom and I have been working on a song together, so watch this space!’ says the 33-year-old heart-throb, whose self-titled debut album is released next week.

After the album comes Ramin’s UK tour as a solo artist, so he might well be taking tips about life on the road from Tom, who’s currently in the midst of McFly’s national tour himself. And after that, there’s another little event to keep Tom busy – his long-awaited wedding to fiancée Giovanna Falcone, which will be covered exclusively in the pages of OK! this May.

Both very busy guys, then – so imagine our delight when we nailed them down for a lads’ lunch at glamorous Soho brasserie Kettner’s, one of London’s oldest restaurants and just a stone’s throw from the Queen’s Theatre, Ramin’s recent home as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, where he was mobbed by screaming fans at the stage
door every night...

How do you two know each other?
Ramin: My wife Amanda was going to Peter Andre’s concert, and she sat beside McFly in Nando’s nearby. She was taking three teenage girls and they wanted a photo, so Amanda went over to the guys and said she was really sorry to do this, and she knew what it was like because her husband is in the business. They asked: ‘Who is he?’ and she said: ‘He’s the Phantom in Love Never Dies.’ And Tom went: ‘Your husband’s Ramin?’ He knew me!

So she sorted him out some tickets, and before the show he came backstage to my dressing room, we started jamming, and we’ve carried on ever since. Tom: I’m a huge musical theatre fan, so I’d already seen Ramin perform a few times. I went to theatre school, it’s my background. I’d always wanted to be in musical theatre as a kid, and I played guitar since I was five, but I never really imagined myself being in a band.

Might the two of you actually do something musical together?

Ramin: We’ve got half a song written and it’s actually pretty catchy. The thing about Tom is that he’s a good actor and he’s got a great voice – so he’d make a great Marius in Les Misérables now! I think it’s his turn to do something in the West End. I’d love us to finish our song, but I’d also love to do a show with him. It would be weird for him to be Marius and me to be Jean Valjean. I’d have to carry him around the stage – but he looks light enough!

Tom, your wedding in May isn’t far
away now. How much are you and your fiancée Giovanna looking forward to
 tying the knot?

We can’t wait. We’re in the final stages of planning it and we’re very excited. I’ve had moments of mild panic – we’ve been planning it for so long, and then you realise it’s only a matter of weeks away, as opposed to months! I’ve been with my fiancée for nine years now, so the fact that we’re finally getting married is really brilliant. I just can’t wait for it to happen.

Will it be a big wedding?

It’s turning into quite a big bash. I’m in charge of entertainment, which is the last thing to be organised, typically! We’ll have a band there – not officially McFly – but I’m sure, once everybody’s had a few glasses of champagne, and with some guitars and drums there, there’s not much doubt we’ll do something – especially Danny [Jones], you won’t be able to stop him from getting up on stage!

Do you think married life will change you?

Probably not. We’ve been living together for five years now, and we’ve been together through the whole period of McFly, so it kind of feels we’re married already. I can’t wait to have kids – eventually! I’m looking forward to the day when the whole band has kids – and we have a separate kids’ bus to take them around on tour. A nursery bus!

[...] Tom, now that your fellow McFly members Harry Judd, Dougie Poynter and Danny Jones have done reality
 TV shows, when are you going 
to be doing one?

I don’t know, I just don’t think I could cope with all that pressure. Watching Harry on Strictly Come Dancing and seeing the pressure – he worked his a**e off on that, and he’s been touring with them, it’s a big commitment. I’m so proud of Harry. We went to see the show the other night on tour in Cardiff. I think if I ever got involved in a reality show, it would be on the judging side, and something music related.

Do you regret saying you’d agree to be photographed naked if Harry won Strictly? Whose idea was that?

Danny’s! He did it when Dougie won I’m A Celebrity – Get Me Out Of Here!. Then he said on Twitter, if Harry wins Strictly we’ll all do it. I think I’m so used to being naked on magazine covers – there’s always a pic of us taking our kit off. Even my mum’s got used to it now.

Ramin, do you know the other McFly boys too?

I’ve got to know Danny and Dougie now – and Harry a little bit, but the last time I was hanging around with the band he was touring with Strictly. What I like about the guys, and what a lot of people don’t realise, is that they’re a really good rock band. They started off as kids but they’re men now, who write some great stuff.

[...] (to Ramin) Are your sons musical?

They’re just picking up the guitar now, and they sing all the time, but I don’t want to push them into that. There’s an element of wanting them to learn like I did, but I want them also to do the things that I didn’t have the chance to learn.

Are they fans of McFly?

They are massive fans of McFly – and then they met them. We went to Tom’s fiancée Giovanna’s birthday party, and there was Matt Willis and Dougie on the couch, so I said to the boys: ‘Do you want a photo with the two kings of the jungle?’

Tom, what’s your favourite McFly song?

There are too many! Some of the new ones – that’s the way it goes, I think. All About You, of course, was such an amazing song for us, just because it was so big and it holds a special place for me. Out of the last album, Shine A Light is the stand-out song for me.

Has Giovanna got a favourite McFly song?

All About You was written for Giovanna – it was my Valentine’s gift to her about six years ago. I’d forgotten to give her a Valentine’s Day present and I was going over to her house quite late, because I still lived with the band then, so I swiftly wrote a song, which was All About You, and played it to her, and she thought it was amazing. After that, Comic Relief got in touch with us and talked about doing a song for them, and I played them that and they loved it.
 I never intended it to be a McFly song!

Daarnaast hebben we nog ander nieuws, er is ons ingefluisterd dat Tom's en Giovanna's bruiloft in OK Magazine zal verschijnen in mei. Meer informatie volgt hopelijk snel!

McFly consoled by gaming consoles
Source: The Sun

McFLY will only turn up to red carpet events if they’re promised a free games console.

Dougie Poynter said: “We don’t go to any of the showbiz parties – but we’ll make an exception if they’re giving away Xboxes.”

The lads are huge gamers and play constantly in hotels on their tour, which stops by London’s Hammersmith Apollo on Saturday.

Harry Judd has got to be decent on the girly dancing games.

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Saint Kidd
Het moge duidelijk zijn dat Saint Kidd, Dougie's nieuwe kledinglijn, inmiddels gelanceerd is. Zoals wij al verwacht hadden crashte de website meteen omdat iedereen er tegelijk op wilde komen. We hebben vernomen dat een aantal items al zijn uitverkocht, maar er zijn nog steeds een aantal shirts beschikbaar. Saint Kidd zal dit weekend niet online zijn, omdat de site wordt verbeterd en sneller gemaakt wordt. Dus nog even geduld en check Dougie's of de Saint Kidd twitter voor meer informatie over de nieuwe opening.

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