BRIAN McFADDEN has sparked outrage by saying heterosexual men should not wear pink.
The ex-WESTLIFE star shocked listeners on a New Zealand radio show, saying: "If you are not gay, a man should not be wearing pink.
"Saying pink is a form of red is the same as saying homosexual is a form of male."
Understandable, gay rights activists have accused the singer of homophobia.
A local Auckland charity have spoken out, with Rainbow Youth co-ordinator Robert Marshall saying: "It's the sort of stuff that gets said every day in the schoolyard. A lot of young people are quite impressionable, and when they see celebrities saying stuff like that, they think it's OK to say it themselves."
Meanwhile Brian revealed the moment he wanted to quit his former boyband was when they were asked to record a cover of BARRY MANILOW's Mandy.
The Irish singer announced his departure just months later and started making plans for a solo career.
He said: "We never got any respect as artists because we didn't write all the songs and we weren't a self-producing product. We were being controlled more like puppets than anything else."
But despite his fizzling career, he's the last one laughing having traded in KERRY KATONA for DELTA GOODREM.
YOU have to hand it to BRIAN McFADDEN — at least he can laugh at his miserable attempts to become a footballer.
The chunky former WESTLIFE singer stepped out for Sydney FC as part of an Australian reality show, only to be met by loud boos and chants of: “You’re just a poor ROBBIE WILLIAMS” and “You’re just a . . . a fat RONAN KEATING.”
He says: “I thought I would try to impress the crowd.
“I went for the first ball, slipped and landed on my ar*e. Then as I tried to get up I slipped again. Ten minutes later I was really struggling, I could barely breathe.”
And he jokes that the put-downs could have been worse. “I could have been a poor Ronan Keating and a fat Robbie Williams.”
Irish singer Brian McFadden has sparked outrage in New Zealand after warning heterosexual men not to wear the colour pink.
The former Westlife star was guest-hosting an Auckland radio breakfast show when he told listeners: ‘If you are not gay, a man should not be wearing pink. Saying pink is a form of red is the same as saying homosexual is a form of male.’
Gay rights activists have accused the star of homophobia, reports contactmusic.com.
Robert Marshall, coordinator of Rainbow Youth rights group, said: ‘It’s the sort of stuff that gets said every day in the schoolyard. A lot of young people are quite impressionable and when they see celebrities saying stuff like that, they think it’s alright to say it themselves.
‘It’s always unacceptable to put people down based on their sexuality - it’s just like putting down people because of their race. Judging people just because they’re a little bit different from you.’