WHEN Matt Willis was presented with that hollowed out coconut and broken oar his life changed.
No longer would Matt be Matt from Busted. He was now Matt, the celebrity you ate a kangaroo’s arse on the telly and chased it down with a crocodile’s penis.
Matt had arrived.
And now he’s spilling his guts to the Star, telling the paper that he has no plans to be the new Preston, the singer from The Ordinary Boys who met Chantelle Houghton on Celebrity Big Brother.
Before his CBB appearance, Preston had had one hit record. Since then he has still had one hit record, but extended his range with a number of showbiz magazine photospreads, a wedding to Chantelle and any number of tight jackets and comfy knits. In this process, he has made, by Matt’s estimations, £3million.
Matt sees Preston’s life as a cautionary tale. As he says: “It’s been said I’ll earn £5m, but there won’t be an autobiography or an ‘at home’ shoot with my girlfriend. I don’t want to be one of those people.”
Perish the thought. Incidentally, Matt’s album is out on Monday, and he would be pleased if you’d buy it. A fortune of £5m does not earn itself. He needs our help.
And he needs our money. As the Express reports, Matt is being sued for £20million by Ki Fitzgerald and Owen Doyle, who claim they formed the Busted group and had a hand in the group’s hits.
The plaintiffs were joined by Willis and James Bourne (also being sued) and finally dropped in favour of one Charlie Simpson. Success followed.
The paper says “legal experts” believe the lads are due £10million each, including royalties from the band’s “official biography”.
Yes, Matt’s life story has already made it to print. Why do it again?
It’s not like he needs the money…
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July 23rd, 2007 at 5:39 pm
They are in it for the money, as that is the reason they waited for so long. The longer you wait the more fame you get, Fame = Money, so they sue them now because there is more money involved. They say that their name was taken out of the credits because it wasn’t in there and never was in there.
They have absolutely NO proof that they wrote those songs, unless you can hear either Ki’s voice on the record. Another thing, songs get written over and over again so that they are amazing, Ki is saying that they wrote song, after song, after song, that way there is going to be a bad song in there as they didn’t rewrite it. And when Charlie came in (As you can tell from Fightstar) he is a very good writer and i believe that he rewrote those songs to make them be a lot better. There was no original recordings of the songs so try explaining this!!!
Although none of us have anything to do with this, these are my thoughts and i think that yes Ki and Owen were in Busted originally but fairly got kicked out. A few members of the old Slipknot were replaced and they never sued anyone!!! It’s the same story!!!
So I think that they are in it for the money!!!