""When that newspaper came out, I remember seeing that when it was printed on the day and the anxiety, the energy that was in the room [with] the five of us," Keating told Magic Radio, referring to his Boyzone bandmates Gately, Keith Duffy, Michael Graham, and Shane Lynch. "We had flown back to Dublin just the day before so Stephen could tell his mum and dad that he was gay. They did that to him," he added, lambasting the tabloids."
""The anxiety, the pressure, the hurt - all of that on that front page. I remember that paper coming out and waking up the next morning in Dublin and the papers and just being with Stephen and the mess that he was, and worried that the fans were going to turn their back on him and Boyzone, and that was the total opposite of what happened.""
Ronan Keating remembers the anxiety and hurt caused when Stephen Gately was outed as gay on The Sun's front page in 1999. A former crew member had threatened to sell a story, which led to the public revelation that Gately was "gay and in love." Keating describes the band's worry that fans would reject Gately and Boyzone and the distress the headline caused when they woke in Dublin. Keating says the tabloids created the pressure and suffering, and that seeing the front page again revived those painful memories. Keating will ring in 2026 with his BBC concert Ronan and Friends: A New Year's Eve Party.
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