I felt bullied on Late Late Show
Shane Lynch defends foul-mouthed outburst
BOYZONE’S Shane Lynch has accused RTÉ of bullying him and his bandmates.
But the singer does not feel the same anger towards the BBC who showed the same ‘embarrassing’ clip of their first TV performance in 1993, just a few days before their Late Late Show appearance.
In an interview with the Irish Mail on Sunday, Shane said he has ‘no regrets’ about his expletive-laden outburst on November 23 while promoting Boyzone’s 25th anniversary tour. He was so outraged on the night that he told Ryan Tubridy to shove it, and dropped the F-bomb a number of times. But, according to Shane, he felt
‘People want to take us down’
‘bullying tactics’ were used by the national broadcaster to bring him and his fellow bandmates down a notch.
‘Do I regret fighting for position when I am put in a bullying situation? Hell no, of course not! All of my life I have been put in a position where people want to shut you down. And those people who try and make steps as a person push forward for their own values, and their own worth and what they think is right in their life,’ Shane told the MoS. ‘And then you have people who try and chop that down. Why would any‘I one want to strip you of your greatness of moving forward and achieving what you’ve achieved?’
Shane also swatted away suggestions that he should have seen the funny side of Tubridy showing the decades-old clip. ‘It wasn’t to do with having a laugh or making a laugh,’ he added. ‘It was to do with a bullying tactic. People bully and that makes them feel better about themselves. Well guess what? On Friday night I wasn’t having it, plain and simple.
am very disappointed in the fact that we are this long, 25 years, of putting our best foot forward, to the point that people want to take us down or make us humbled. I am humbled. But I don’t need any s**t like that.’ The father of two, who now lives in the UK, also revealed why he didn’t react in the same way when the BBC showed the same clip.
‘In the UK, that’s not my hometown,’ he said. ‘I come home to my home town... and it’s like coming home to your own house so if your Momma or Dadda shut you down for making your way in life then obviously you feel bad about that. But if the rest of the world do that too, you don’t really care.’