Ronan Keating branded Louis Walsh a “jealous bulls***er” as resurfaced audio from 2006 highlights the height of their row – just days after the former X Factor judge slammed the Boyzone star as a “p***k”.
Walsh created the band Boyzone in 1993, of which Keating was one of five members before he emerged on his own to pursue a solo career.
Last week, Keatings hit song Life Is A Rollercoaster played throughout the house and Walsh took an unexpected swipe at the Irish star.
“Great song. He was such a p***k. Everybody thinks he’s a lovely guy, do you know what I mean? He hasn’t had a hit record since I left. He sacked me.”
Since then, rediscovered audio has been circulating where Keating’s comments were anything but glowing for his former band manager.
During the tense time of their relationship in 2006, Keating can be heard on tape: “He hurt me, he really hurt me and he knows it.
Ronan and Louis’s row first began in 2012
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“I don’t have any time for the guy. We’re a million miles from each other. I have no respect for Louis because he has none for me. He was very jealous of me” he says, as reported by The Sun.
Keating continued: “I had to sack him because he wouldn’t manage me. He’s a very selfish character. It’s bulls**t man. He’s a bulls***er.”
Before the breakdown of their partnership, Boyzone ended up having six number-one singles in the UK, four number-one albums and they remain the second most successful British boyband behind Take That.
Back in 2012, Walsh branded Keating “talentless and spoiled,” which kicked off the back-and-forth comments to this day.
Boyzone were managed by Louis for many years
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Keating more recently explained he thought Walsh should “move on and be happy with what he had achieved”.
“He’s had a great career. It’s not life to be bitter and talk negatively about people – it fester in your soul,” he previously said on Magic FM’s Magic in the Morning Breakfast Show.
Despite Walsh’s brutal comments on some of his former colleagues and friends, he currently stands as the new outright favourite with BetVictor Casino to win this year’s edition of Celebrity Big Brother.
The former X Factor judge was considered a big outsider to win the show in the opening few episodes but has seen his price plummet in the outright winner market from 33/1 last week into 2/1 favouritism.
Ronan branded Louis Walsh a “jealous bulls***er”
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Sam Boswell, spokesperson of BetVictor, said: “The start of the final week in the Celebrity Big Brother house has seen a new housemate snatch the favourite tag ahead of Friday’s concluding episode, with Louis Walsh our new frontrunner to win the series.
“Walsh was as high as 33/1 in the outright winner market last week but has been backed all the way into 2/1 as of Monday afternoon, making him the narrow favourite ahead of Nikita Kuzmin (11/5).
“Colson Smith is third in the betting at 7/2, with David Potts (8/1) also not out of the question.”
