The gift of the day. I’ve added a bunch on new “old” HQ pictures to the gallery – 2 sets of candids and 1 set of appereance pictures. Enjoy!

Out clubbing – 9th March 2006 – HQ

The PAN – AM Bar – 24.02.04 – HQ

Out in Liverpool – 3rd June 2004 – HQ

To celebrate the 5th year anniversary I’ve made a special layout for the site with some of my own favourite pictures of Jodi. I spend days on perfecting this layout so I really hope you all will love it as much as I do. If you find any errors please let me know so I can fix them.

Stay tuned for more great updates.

On Tuesday (January 12th)  it is JodiFan.com’s 5th bithday! Yes it’s hard to believe but we’ve been online for 5 years already and I want to celebrate that. So every day next week there will be a special little “present” here on the site for all you dedicated fans.

Westlife star Kian Egan is managing wife Jodi Albert’s new band and has promised to keep an eye on what the group wear as he wants them to have a ”classy” image.

Kian Egan is ‘controlling’ of his wife’s wardrobe.

The Westlife singer is managing a new group formed by Jodi Albert and has pledged to make the girls cover up to promote a ‘classy’ image.

He said: ‘I’ll certainly be very controlling of their image because I think a lot of girl bands now are way too tarted up. If you look at Girls Aloud’s last tour, it’s too oversexed.

‘Jodi’s is more of a classic catwalk Gucci look. That’s the sort of sexiness I want to achieve with them.’

Jodi’s band are currently in the recording studio and Kian hasn’t ruled out inviting them to showcase their material on the next Westlife tour.

He added to Cosmopolitan magazine: ‘If they’re ready to do it and the boys agree, I’d love it. But it’s still early days for them.

‘It’d be difficult in a way as she’s going to have to be with her band, whereas if she comes to see Westlife on tour, she stays with me.’

Source: MSN.com

Merry Christmas!

We here at JodiFan.com wants to wish everybody a merry christmas and I hope you all have a really a festive evening tonight/tomorrow. Updates with return after christmas, I’ll be off the until the 27th so don’t expect any updates the following days.

I’ve added bigger and untagged versions of photoshoot #005. Please don’t use these without giving credit to JodiFan.com – thank you.

Girl Thing

Who were they? The band Simon Cowell hopes you don’t remember. In 2000 he claimed they’d be “bigger than the Spice Girls.”

What happened? Debut single Last One Standing was their only top 10 hit.

Wannabe: Michelle Hughes (nee Barber), one of five singers

I was 18 and working as a dancer at Blackpool pleasure beach when someone told me about an advert in the Stage for a new band that was being put together. When I got to the auditions, girls were queuing around the block. It was the same management team that put together the Spice Girls. I was picked along with four others and they put us in a hotel for a weekend to see if we got on. It was surreal. One of the girls didn’t mix well and she got the boot, and they found Jodi Albert, who was still at school, and we all shared a house.

I remember going to the Smash Hits awards before we’d even recorded a note, sitting in a box with VIPs. Simon Cowell was our A&R guy at RCA. He was putting together Westlife and he wanted a female band after missing out on the Spice Girls. We went to his house – we were at his 40th birthday party – and we had rows, because he is very opinionated and so am I. I said we were too much like the Spice Girls, but everyone was saying, “Simon has the golden touch. You’ll have a No 1,” and we bowed to his allegedly better judgment. We had a launch party in Paris and I remember someone asked the record company “But what if it doesn’t go to No 1?” It just wasn’t considered possible.

So going Top 10 in July 2000 was marred: because of the hype, No 8 wasn’t considered good enough. It cost an astronomical amount to launch us and I think our advance of £250,000 was one of the biggest ever. But when the second single, Girls On Top, only made 25, I think they decided to cut their losses. If they released anything else, they’d have to pay the third chunk of that advance.

It was all over just before Christmas 2000. They’d flogged us like horses and two of the girls said they didn’t want to do an interview, they wanted to go home. On that drive we read in the News of the World that our management were also managing Hear’Say, the winners of the Popstars TV series. We’d been lined up to do Pure and Simple but suddenly, Hear’Say were doing it. I remember being called into the office and we were told the record company wasn’t releasing the album in the UK. We’d done really well in Australia and the Australian label would have taken us, but none of us wanted to live on the other side of the world. So that was that.

I landed a presenting contract with the kids’ TV channel Nickelodeon. I had three kids, retrained as a dance teacher and opened a dance school in Blackpool for 60 or 70 students.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I hadn’t been in that band, but had gone for The X Factor. But I walked away with enough money for a deposit on a house, and I paid for a wedding outfit. I’ve no regrets. We travelled the world and I’ve got a gold disc on the wall. I know my little boy Daniel is going to go to school and say “Mummy used to be a pop star,” and they’ll go “Yeah, right”.

Source: The Guardian

Yes I know, we have been in December for 10 days already so I’m a little late with this months POTM. I’ve just been so busy with school and general private life. Anyway this months POTM is:

Click to view the photoshoot.

Also there will be not voting for next month.

Singer Kian Egan is currently co-managing an up-and-coming girl band with Louis Walsh (which features his girlfriend, ex-Hollyoaks actress Jodi Albert), and he says the pair are trying to make the group more sophisticated than Cheryl and friends.

“I’ll certainly be very controlling of their image because I think a lot of the girl bands now are way too tarted up,” the Westlife star told Cosmopolitan.

“If you look at Girls Aloud’s last tour, it’s too over-sexed. Jodi’s is more of a classy catwalk, Gucci look. That’s the sort of sexiness I want to achieve with them.”

Egan also hinted that the band – who are still without a name – could tour with Westlife in futute.

“If they’re ready to do it and the boys agree, I’d love it. But it’s still early days for them. They’re recording their album,” he added.

THE naming of Louis Walsh and Kian Egan’s new girlband is set to be the subject of a TV show.

The Herald can reveal plans are under way to launch a new reality show, which aims to find a name for the five-some, already hailed as Ireland’s answer to Girls Aloud.

Pop mogul Walsh and Westlife singer Egan are said to be in negotiations to finalise the details of the new programme.

The pair are hoping to have it on the small screen early next year.

“There has been so much mystery surrounding the name that this would be the ideal way to ensure the girls burst on to the market with a bang,” said an insider.

Tactical

“Not giving the girls a name was a deliberate and tactical move on Louis and Kian’s part.”

The girlband comprises Kian’s wife Jodi Albert (26), Kasey Smith (19), Corinna Dunne (23), Sharon Condon (23) and Leigh Learmont (20) .

It was launched amid much fanfare last December on the Late Late Show with Pat Kenny.

Since then, the group have been off the radar, with Kian recently explaining that they have been busy recording their album.

Kian also hinted that the girlband may accompany Westlife on their next tour.

Credit/Source: herald.ie