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Betrayed by Boyzone: I helped make the band £10m EACH with Louis Walsh and they never said thank you - then they said we ripped them off


EXCL: Paul Keogh, 65, spent £500,000 and worked doggedly hard to launch Boyzone back in the mid-90s - but now thinks they have been ungrateful to the team that made them famous.

The former managing director of Polygram Records in Ireland has said members Ronan Keating, 47, Keith Duffy, 50, Shane Lynch, 48, Mikey Graham, 52, plus the late Stephen Gately, have ever since failed to recognise the role he and others played in their achievements. In the tell-all special charting the story of the Boyzone, Ronan and his bandmates talk about their rise to fame from their audition and first disastrous appearance on Irish TV where they were ridiculed for their dancing. The manager, 72, formed Boyzone in 1993 and did all he could to keep (Clockwise from top left: Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating, Stephen Gately, Keith Duffy and Shane Lynch) in the public eye

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