Music mogul Louis Walsh has revealed award-winning
Hollywood Actor Colin Farrell auditioned to be in Boyzone. Speaking to housemates on Celebrity Big Brother, Walsh told Fern Britton and Colson Smith that he had to turn Farrell down after a poo audition. Walsh managed the
Irish chart toppers from 1993 to 2000 as Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating, Shane Lynch and Stephen Gately made the cut. But it could have been different if Farrell hadn't been rejected. Walsh told housemates: "I know him [Farrell] very well as he auditioned for Boyzone and he told me he wanted to be an actor, I knew him from
Dublin. I said 'you can't sing, I can't give you the gig' because I knew him very well. And he said to me 'oh I wanna be an actor' and I said 'You're wasting your f****** time.'" This isn't the first we've heard of Farrell's doomed audition. Speaking on the Late
Late Show in 2019, Farrell revealed how he was approached by Walsh. Farrell explained to host Ryan Tubridy: "I was on the dance floor showing a bit a leg back in the day, I was on the dance floor of The Pod nightclub... and I went into the bar next door afterwards and I was told this fella wants to talk to you and it was Louis Walsh. "He said, 'I'm getting this band together and it's gonna be great, and you'd be wonderful'. I was wearing a tight rubber t-shirt and leather pants, so I was ready to come on and impress." Farrell then went to open auditions and he was told that he more or less had the role in the bag. He even had photos with "Shane Lynch and Mark Walton, who was one of the original members". Farrell says he sang Careless Whisper and "murdered it". He explained: "They asked me, 'Could you do that again?' "I went home afterwards...and the phone rang and my mother said Louis Walsh was on the phone for me. It was at the bottom of the stairs so I took the phone and he went, 'Look, eh Colin listen, today eh you know, it's not really...it's not going to work, you know."