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What happened to the ultimate noughties party boy Fran Cosgrave: Reality star was left bankrupt and on verge of being homeless after party days with Calum Best - now he's unrecognisable after huge career shift


The former nightclub owner, 47, has swapped his frosted tips and partying ways for a bushy beard and a life away from the spotlight.

From winning the first ever series of Love Island to his bromance with Callum Best, not to mention his links to Westlife And Atomic Kitten, Fran Cosgrave was like a walking emblem of noughties pop culture, all the way up to his frosted tips. His first claim to fame was being a bodyguard for boyband Westlife and his engagement to Natasha Hamilton forged the second major alliance between the Irish group and Atomic Kitten - with Brian McFadden, of course, married to Kerry Katona. By his own admission, things were spiralling out of control for Fran, who told Joe.ie: 'I woke up one morning, bankrupt, five stone over weight, on antidepressants, jobless, on the dole and on the verge of becoming homeless – in short, the most miserable I had ever been in my life.'

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