Radar: I'M KIAN TO WED JODI

HI, guys! Kian Egan of Westlife here. Mark, Nicky, Shane and I have teamed up with Suzanne to edit Radar this week.

It's brilliant to be here - especially after winning ITV1's Record of the Year last night for our track You Raise Me Up. Huge thanks to everyone who voted for us! And we certainly celebrated with a Guinness or two.

Now for the question fans are always asking: What's the latest with me and Jodi Albert? Well, we've just set up home in Chelsea - next door to billionaire Roman Abramovich.

Jodi - lots of you will know her from her time playing Debbie Dean in Hollyoaks - is a great girl. We're very happy together and yes, we'd like to get married some day.

Jodi and I have bought all our furniture for our new house. She's taken over the spare room and turned it into an Indian-themed room, painting it gold and filling it with loads of cushions and a mattress on the floor.

I'm not complaining. At least that means I can sit on the sofa in the lounge and watch the TV in peace...

I'm the cook in the house, but Jodi is getting better at it now.

Westlife have been having a really busy month and we'll finish just two days before Christmas.

We had areal nightmare a couple of weeks ago when we were rushed off a plane after its engines burst into flames minutes before take- off in South Africa.

But it hasn't been all doom and gloom. We've teamed up with Diana Ross for our new single, When You Tell Me That You Love Me. Working with her was just brilliant.

NICKY Byrne interrupts: "All of us thought Diana was going to be a real diva, but she wasn't.

"OK, everyone called her Ms Ross, but that's as far as her diva demands went. Before she left she said, 'Call me next time you are in LA.' I definitely will. My father-in-law Bertie Ahern is a big fan."

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