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The night worse-for-wear Wanted star Max George confided his devastation to me, reveals KATIE HIND, as friends tell what they blame for his health woes
It was a balmy night on Hollywood's Sunset Strip in October 2014 that I met the very refreshed boyband star Max George. We were in Rock & Reilly's, an expensive but dingy Irish bar.
Explaining blearily to me that he was in Los Angeles for audition season, I suggested that he leave the venue, which was also popular with Jason Statham and rumoured to be owned by former Tottenham Hotspur player Robbie Keane (who was playing for LA Galaxy at the time). Indeed, as a showbiz reporter, I used to see the boyband - made up of Max, Tom, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness and Nathan Sykes - regularly while they enjoyed a string of chart successes between 2010 and 2012, with hits such as All Time Low and Glad You Came. On another occasion, I recall Max giddily telling me that while dating Michelle, who was starring on Coronation Street at the time, he had asked the show's producers whether The Wanted could perform a gig at the soap's pub, the Rovers Return.
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