Snuggled up together on a sofa, eating a Chinese takeaway and watching an episode of Friends, Kerry and Bryan McFadden seem far removed from how many of us imagine high-profile celebrities live their lives. With Kerry recently crowned Queen Of The Jungle after winning I’m A Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here!; and husband Bryan part of the hugely successful Irish boyband Westlife, you’d expect them to be full of themselves. But there were no airs and graces when OK! Met the good-looking couple during a much-needed family break at an exclusive Four Seasons Hotel.

In fact, the couple apologise to everyone for being tired after staying up all night celebrating Westlife’s Best Pop Act award at the Meteor Music Awards - Ireland’s equivalent of the BRITs. After borrowing cigarettes and headache pills, they pad round the bedroom in towelling robes and wait for their two baby daughters, Molly, two, and Lilly, one, to arrive for the shoot with Bryan’s mother Mairead.

Despite a rumour of a bust-up between the couple at the recent BRIT Awards, which they are quick to dismiss, the couple seem more bestotted with each other than the day they married at a lavish ceremony at Slane Castele in January 2002. Proof of this love are the endless songs Bryan writes for Kerry, one of which, If My World Stopped Turning, has a good chance of being the Irish entry for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

It’s hard to believe the couple are both only 23 as they’ve already achieved more than most people could only dream of in a lifetime.

Here, Kerry talks exclusively to OK! about her fellow jungle contestants, her unladlylike behaviour, her weight loss and becoming OK!s hot new celebrity columnist. While hubby Bryan - who is still minus a wedding ring after losing it while surfing in Australia - tells OK! about the songs he’s written for Kerry and reveals the truth about what happened at the BRIT Awards "

First of all, let’s clear up a couple of rumours. It was reported that after the BRITs you had a bust-up and Bryan was seen chatting up a girl. What’s the truth?
Kerry: "I don’t know where that came from. Do you think eh’d be sat there if he had?!"

What actually happened?
Kerry: "I went to the BRITs. I didn’t really get to enjoy them as I was there to present an award."
Bryan: "We’d also invited Charlie Brocket and so we were looking after him. We brought him along with us to the BMG party afterwards."
Kerry: "Apparently someone at the party rang the press up. The room was crowded and I wa sloving everyone coming up to me and congrautlating me, but I was so knackered. It’d been non-stop since I fot off the plane from Australia. I just got to the point when I couldn’t say one more: ’Oh thank you very much.’ So I just wanted to go home to bed. I didn’t actually tell Bryan I was going home."
Bryan: "When I saw she’d gone I rang her up and said: ‘Where are you?’"
Kerry: "I told him I was at the hotel. I just said, you’ve done everything for me since I’ve got off the plane, you need a bit of a break as well, enjoy yourself. It was his record company’s party anyway. I just didn’t want to drag Bryan away from all that."

Let’s clear up another newspaper report, Kerry. Jenny Frost has apparently disputed your instrumental role in forming Atomic Kitten. What’s the truth?
Kerry: "I really don’t think Jenny would’ve said that. I think it’s just crossed wires completely. I’m friends with all the girls."

Do you keep in touch with your old Atomic Kitten bandmates?
Kerry: "We haven’t been in touch lately as we’ve all been so busy. It’s not because we don’t want to. Tash and I have been trying to get in touch since I came out of the jungle. We keep missing each other’s phone calls."

You were best mates with her, weren’t you?
Kerry: "Yes, Tash and I were like two peas in a pod."

Bryan, how do you feel about being pipped to the number spot in the charts by Peter Andre’s *Mysterious Girl*?
Bryan: "I’m not too bothered to be honest. Westlife weren’t expecting to get to number one with Obvious. The third song of an album doesn’t normally go to the number one because the song’s on the album and all the fans have the album by then."
Kerry: "I’m delighted for Pete. He really wanted to come back and he’s done it."

Were you still quite surprised he got to number one?
Kerry: "He has a whole new fan base now who weren’t around when he was first in the charts. I’d never even heard of Peter Andre then."

Kerry, you got on really well with Jordan in the jungle. Hve you seen her since?
Kerry: "No, I haven’t but I do hope to as I really liked the Katie I met in the jungle."

Do you think that Peter and Jordan’s relationship will last?
Kerry: "I don’t know. I wish them both well. When I was in the jungle Pete said he really liked her and when we got out Katie said she really liked him, so I wish them luck. It’s early days."

It must be hard for them living it out in the spotlight. Was it the same for you two?
Kerry: "We got engaged after three weeks but we kept our relationship quite for nine months."
Bryan: "There was a lot of sneaking around, it has to be said!"

People loved your down-to-earth nature in the jungle. Do you ever wish you behaved more like a lady?
Kerry: "Never in a million years. The thing is, I don’t look at anyone and think they’re better than me. I see everyone as equal. I’ve only been star-struck once."

Who was that with?
Kerry: "Rod Stewart! There’s one other guy I really idolise and that’s Dr Hook. I’m meeting him soon when he’s doing a concert here. The first concert I went to, when I was 18, was Dr Hook."
Bryan: "The first concert you went to was actually your own as you were already in Atomic Kitten."

How much weight have you lost, Kerry?
Kerry: "One stone in two weeks. I’m a size ten now. I’ve put on a couple of pounds since I came back but there’s nothing wrong with being curvaceous."

There was a lot of talk about the size of your boobs in the jungle. Did you lose anything off your chest?
Bryan: "I don’t think so!"
Kerry: "Are they still a full handful, Bryan?!"

You stayed at the Conrad Hotel when you flew back from Australia - and your daughters were both conceived there. Will there be a post-jungle McFadden?!
Kerry: "No I’ve got a coil. The alarms go off every time I got into a shop!"

You’ve talked in the past about having more children or possibly adopting"
Kerry: "If I wasn’t doing what I was doing I’d be a foster carer as there are so many children out there who need a home, but because of our lifestyle we can’t. Maybe in ten years we’ll have another one of our own."

Bryan, you’ve also said you’d like a boy or two "
Kerry: "Just one!"

You’ve always been described as a third of Atomic Kitten or the other half of Westlife’s Bryan McFadden. Has that changed?
Kerry: "I still can’t separate myself from Bryan but it’s nice to be recognised in my own right as well."

Bryan, normally it’s you in the headlines. How are you coping with Kerry’s turn?
Bryan: "It’s not any different for us - we’ve always been Kerry and Bryan and not how the papers describe us."

So what does the future have in store?
Kerry: "It’s just been mad. I know what I’m doing this week but not next. You’ll just have to wait and see."

Have the offers been flooding in?
Kerry: "I’ve had a few offers, a few things in the pipeline. Mainly TV work but nothing I can mention yet."

Next week you start work as OK!’s new columnist. How do you feel about that?
Kerry: "I’m over the moon about writing a column for OK!. It’s a real challenge and it’ll be the perfect place for me to air my opinions as I like to speak my mind!

What do you like about OK!?
Kerry: "I love OK! for the pictures and the gossip - and I have yet to see a bad photo of myself in the magazine! It was the first thing I bought at the airport when I flew home from Australia after winning I’m A Celebrity""

Can you tell us what you’ll have in store for the readers?
Kerry: "They’ll just have to buy next week’s magazine to find out. I’ve a couple of surprises up my sleeve!"

We hear Simon Cowell rang you recently. Might we see your singing career revived?
Kerry: "No. Well, I’ll never say never. If I got the right deal and the right songs I would consider it."

Something solo?
Kerry: "Yes, maybe. We might do a Sonny and Cher!"

On the subject of music, we hear you chose Kerry’s dress for the BRITs, Bryan"
Kerry: "We were running around Harrods looking for something for me to wear and Bryan picked up the dress. I said: ‘I can’t wear that, I’ll look at ‘60s lampshade!’"

Were you nervous about presenting a BRIT, Kerry?
Kerry: "Yes and I actually really, really regret saying that I farted when I got up on the stage."
Bryan: "Because it wasn’t necessary?"
Kerry: "I just really regret it."
Bryan: "Were you thinking about saying it before you went on? I told you about doing that before."
Kerry: "I know but I still did it. If I think of things to be funny they’re not funny, whereas I’m normally a really spontaneous person."
Bryan: "If you have ever watched Kerry on a long interview show, like Parkinson, that’s where she’s best as she’s off the cuff and herself."

What are Westlife doing at the moment, Bryan?
Bryan: "We’re rehearsing now and then our world tour kicks off at the end of March."

Do the tours take their toll on your physically?
Bryan: "I love touring. In the morning we play golf and then go and do the concert at night. All very relaxing!"

Kerry, do you meet up with Bryan while he’s on tour?
Kerry: "As often as possible. If I get a steady TV presenting job it’s not going to be every day, so I’ll be able to see Bryan when he’s on tour."

What would be your dream presenting job?
Kerry: "I’d like to be an Ant and Dec-style presenter."

Be them both?
Kerry [laughs]: "Yes. Seriously, I just like how they present. They’re so funny."

Bryan, you’ve written the Irish entry for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest"
Bryan: "Yes. My song got down to the final two last year but was pipped to the post. We’re in the final two again this year, so fingers crossed."

The track’s called If My World Stopped Turning and it’s about Kerry"
Bryan: "The lyrics are about if I were to die tomorrow. If my world stopped turning in the morning. I’d take all my memories of Kerry with me, and that I’d still stand tall even if it were al taken from me because she’s the one who made the winner out of me."
Kerry: "Not great for me as he as he’d be lying six feet under! He’s always writing songs about me."

That’s such a romantic thing to do"
Bryan: "You’d think, wouldn’t you?! But she’s not interested."
Kerry: "Rubbish!"

What else have you written, Bryan?
Bryan: "The Eurovision song I wrote last year for Simon Casey was number one in Ireland for five or six weeks. Anything I’ve written in the last couple of years has ended up being used. I also co-wrote the song for the winner of Pop Idol in Germany."

What about your political aspirations? Do you really want to run for president?
Bryan: "It was a joke but it is possible because of the way it works in Ireland. You don’t have to have a political background or connections, you just have to become a canidate and there’S a public vote."

So you’d be First Lady Kerry?
Kerry [laughs]: "But I am already a queen!"

Interview: Annabel Mackie
Mag: OK! Magazine
Date: 16th March 2004
Typed Up By: Lynchi.de.vu