As Abz from recently reformed boy band 5ive climbed the steps to Celebrity Big Brother – inmates including Ron Atkinson, Carole McGiffin, Louie Spence and Sophie Anderton have been in the house over a week now – he shepherded in a new raffish level of celebrity humility. “How are you Abz!” chirped Emma Willis at the earnest thirtysomething who kept us entertained last autumn with his emotional journey on ITV2 during The Big Reunion. Abz enjoyed and endured enormous fame in the 1990s. He had the type of fame that Harry Styles and the One Direction pop gonks are enjoying now until the bubble burst – and let's be straight, the bubble always bursts. Then after some years in the wilderness a reality show led to his stock rising again. By Christmas 2012 he was playing large venues again. I watched him at the Hammersmith Odeon rapping and leaping and spinning on his back while thousands of nostalgia junkies old enough to know better, myself included, screamed.
Reported by Independent 3 hours ago.
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