Boyzone are the last band you'd expect to be getting in brawls in a nightclub. However, that's apparently what has happened as the popsters allegedly got stuck in with members of Rihanna's band following a six-hour booze session in Australia. Did they have to wait for a key-change in a song before standing up to scrap?
Allegedly, the brawl started after one of the Irish singers approached a girl from Rihanna's band in a Sydney club, says The Mirror. Stephen Gately, obviously not the one chatting any ladies up, admitted it had been "more than a difference of opinion". "It was over a girlfriend of one of Rihanna's band members. We just wanted to chat and be friendly and this guy tries to rough us up," he said.
He went on to explain that he and his bandmates Ronan Keating, Shane Lynch, Mikey Graham and Keith Duffy had been out with former Westlifer Brian McFadden, who lives in Sydney. A source said: "The boys held their own despite being unsteady on their feet. Security came to break it all up. They got a stern talking to."
