Risky romps, daredevil stunts and seriously scary dramas - are these boys living on the edge or what?!

We've done some ker-razy things here at Sneak. In the not-too-distant past, we've sprayed Blazin' Squad with icy water, snapped Gareth having a wee and made the Liberty X lads trash their hotel room. But never before has a band agreed to drop their trousers for our cunning cameras - until now (even if it did take a little bit of persuading)!
'You wanna take pictures of us in our boxers?' Charlie asks, totally shocked at our saucy request, as Sneak meets up with the lads in a secret east London studio. 'Sh*t man, what pants am I wearing today?' he blurts out, and suddenly he's looking even more panicked!
But after a speedy trip to the loo to confirm that Charlie's not wearing cheesy Y-fronts (as if!) and a little persuasion from the band's stylish stylist, the Busted boys are standing in a sunny studio unzipping their flies.
'Hmm, actually, this could look really cool!' laughs Charlie as Sneak's saucy snapper kicks off our outrageous photo shoot!
But this ain't the scariest situation the Busted boys have found themselves in. In fact, as part of their globeltrotting quest to conquer the world of pop, Matt, James and Charlie have been in more scrapes than a sack of spuds! But who's the toughest boy in the Busted barrel? Read on and judge for yourselves..

So lads - you've finally flashed your pants for Sneak, but has your life ever flashed before your eyes?
James: 'On several occasions! One time, I was on holiday and decided to go parasailing. The guy driving the speedboat thought it would be funny to keep dipping me in the sea. But then he dipped me too,/i> far and the parachute started dragging me underwater. When you think you're going to die you start to think about all the things closest to you - family, friends and stuff.
'The bloke in the speedboat was an arse. I heard that he killed two people a few weeks later.'
Charlie: 'I've had quite a few nasty accidents. Once, I drove straight into the back of a car on my bike, flew over the top and smashed my teeth out! I was only seven though, so there wasn't a lot of life to flash before my eyes at the time.'

Stabbed

Have there been any hairy moments since being in Busted?
Charlie: 'One time we had to take off on this icy airport runway - right in the middle of a snowstorm - to get to a TV show in Germany.'
James: 'Basically, they weren't sure if any planes would be able to take off and we were the first ones to try it - the guinea pigs!'
Matt: 'We'd been on-board the plane for three hours, trying to get the stewardesses to let us off 'cos we'd missed the TV show anyway! Then suddenly, the plane started moving and we were sliding all over the place, thinking, 'Get us off this plane right now!'
Charlie: 'For me, the scariest thing is when I have dreams where I die. I've been stabbed in dreams, and I can feel the warm blood dripping down my waist!'
James: (horrified) 'Eww!'
Charlie: 'And when I get shot I feel the blood and it actually feels like I'm dying! My head feels heavy, like I'm falling unconscious - and then I wake up! I'm totally bugged out by it - I hate it!' (At this point, Charlie's nose starts bleeding, which is just a little bit too spooky).'

Have you ever done something risky and then thought straight after, 'Whoa! That could have been really dangerous!'?
Matt: 'Me and my mates were copying Jackass after clubbing once. I know it's a bad idea and they tell you not to do it, but we were p***ed! We were going down this hill on skateboards at about 60mph and there was this massive roundabout with a stone statue on the bottom. I was so p***ed, the second time I went down the hill I stacked it so badly!
'A couple of feet either way and I'd have hit that bloody statue. If I'd done that, I'd basically be dead. I've never sobered up so fast in my life!'

Your gigs are a bit 'lively'. Do you ever get hurt?
James: 'The most worried I got was when we were doing a school gig and Matt tried to crowd surf. I was just praying, 'Please take his weight, please take his weight.' They were only 12, 13, some even younger..!'
Matt: 'No, they weren't! They were like, 15 years old!
James: 'Whatever.. There was no way they were strong enough!'
Matt: 'They just grabbed me and dragged me down.'
Charlie: 'He so disappeared.'
Matt: 'Suddenly, I felt myself go whoosh and then all these girls were just on the floor, all over me.. I was like, 'Cool'.'

Haveyou had any dodgy mosh moments at other people's gigs?
Matt: 'Me and Charlie made the mistake of going to an Avril gig, and everyone went f***ing ballistic. We had to go and sit in the VIP room, which was really crap 'cos there's no sound in there! We waited for a couple of songs and snuck back in.'
James: 'I lost my shoe at a Muse gig! I was down the front, and when the band came on everyone surged forward, I fell over and my shoe came off! I was crawling through people's legs when suddenly the strobe light hit my trainer - I dived on it, but by then people were all over me and standing on my head - so I got the shoe on and got the f*** out of there.'
Matt: 'I got punched in the face in one mosh and was floored! I was in the pit, everyone was jumping up and down and I got a right hook in the gob. He was like, 'Sorry man' but I couldn't stand up!'

Do you ever get recognised or hassled by Busted haters?
James: 'Oh my God, yes! All the time. Everyone notices us now. I feel like Busted are the most recognised people ever!'
Charlie: 'It p***es me off, man. You always get some t*t coming up to you and singing Year 3000 right in your face.'
Matt: 'That's the worst! It's one thing bringing attention to us by going, 'Ooh, there's thingy from Busted,' but it's another to sing songs at me. It infuriates me. And they always sing Year 3000!'
Charlie: 'I don't let it get to me - they're just d***heads. But it does attract attention from everyone when you just want to be left alone.'

Frothing

Has anyone ever threatened or tried to attack you because of who you are?
Charlie: 'Not really.'
Matt: 'I'm gonna say no..'

If someone really did try and attack you, would you run away or put up a fight?
Matt: 'Depends who it is, mate. Charlie, tell 'em what you did in Cornwall!'
Charlie: 'I've got the best trick in the world, man! I was in Cornwall, and all these rude locals walked over to me. My mate, Fergus...'
Matt: [Interrupting] 'Fergus! Ha ha! He was called Fergus!'
Charlie: '...had shouted something at them. But Fergus and I looked the same 'cos we had bleached hair, so this bloke came over to me 'cos he thought I was the one that shouted at him! He was like, 'You called me a whatever,' and I said, 'I didn't call you a whatever,' so he grabbed me by the throat and threw me into a hedge! At this point I started faking a seizure, frothing at the mouth, gasping for air and falling to my knees. Fergus was going, 'Oh my God, we've got to get him to hospital!', but by the time I'd stood up they'd all f****d off!'

Nice trick! But on to booze.. when was the last time you got your bums out because you were drunk?
Matt: 'I think mooning's stupid. Whenever we go out with Lee Ryan from Blue, he always gets his arse out.'
Charlie: 'We were with him the other night and my trousers fell down for some reason..'
James: 'Yeah, right! He ran up to Lee and he was hugging him with his trousers down going, 'Lee! Oh Lee!''
Charlie: 'I was properly f***ed, running round with my trousers round my ankles and bottle of champagne in one hand!'

Kissed

Blimey! Have you ever been so drunk you've snogged a bloke?
Charlie: 'Mate, please. Let's not be silly, now!'
James: 'I don't snog blokes!'
Matt: 'I might get paralytic, but I'm not gonna do something that I would never, ever do. You ain't just gonna turn around and start snogging a geezer.'
Charlie: 'I mean, I might have kissed one of my mates on the cheek or something, or when I'm out I might kind of pretend to kiss one of the lads on the head or something - but no tongues!'

Ever thrown up down the side of a taxi, then?
Charlie: 'No! People who do that are such w***ers! Actually, I can hardly talk - my mates are usually jumping up and down drunk on cars!'
Matt: 'Your mates are usually out destroying the street!'
Charlie: 'I've never puked down the side of a taxi, but I was sick all over my friend's mum on my brother's 21st birthday party! And once, we got really drunk, missed a flight, and I ended up being sick in Matt's bag. He didn't find out until the next morning - nasty!'

That's gross! So have you ever woken up and not known where you are?
Matt: 'Yeah, I've done that about four or five times! At the end of our tour, I went out on the lash and woke up in a hotel I'd never even seen before! I didn't know how the hell I'd got there! When I woke up, I was in bed with someone..'
Charlie: 'His name was Roy!'
Matt: 'No, I did know who I was in bed with. So I got up, got dressed, went to the front desk and picked up the bill. It was extortionate! I was like, 'Sh*t, that's a £700 hotel bill.''

Filthy

You must have snogged a few people you shouldn't have when you've been a bit on the squiffy side, though?
Charlie: 'I once got off with my girlfriend's best friend. Actually, that's not entirely accurate - I snogged two of her best mates! I got some serious hate mail off my girlfriend after that I can tell you! I'd gone off her and was in the process of finishing the relationship anyway, but then I ended up snogging two of her friends.'

Did you snog them in the same evening?!
Charlie: 'Er, at the same time actually! It was pretty shocking, pretty filthy. But it was them that came up to me! It was funny, man! I mean, nothing really happened, you know, like that, but my girlfriend found out and told me she was getting her brother to come after me and murder me!'

Busted: the sloppy side
It's not all boozin' 'n' brawling! When it comes to romance, the boys are still big softies!

How serious are you with girls? D'you fall in love easily?
Charlie: 'Yeah, definitely. Every girl I fall for, I really fall for. About a year and a half ago, a big relationship came to an end. It was awful. She blamed the band and we'd probably still be together if it wasn't for Busted.'
James: 'Most relationships I've had have been serious. It's hard to get involved half-heartedly. If I'm going to go out with a girl, I've got to really like her and really want to make the effort.'

Amazing

Do you think you change when you're in love?
Matt: 'Yeah, you've got someone else to think about, so it's not all about you anymore. Love's amazing, it's the best thing in the f***ing world. But at the same time you're thinking, 'This might end one day, and I'm gonna have to finish with you.''
James: 'I never bring that up, but it's there in your mind, 'Can this go on?''

What are you like after you've gone through a break-up?
James: 'Normally I'm quite depressed - for about a week!'
Charlie: 'I've been dumped and it felt like the world had ended. I used to have dreams about getting back together with her every night. And I've had times where I've just shut myself in my room. Luckily, music would get me through. Or you could go to a strip club..'
Matt: 'Yeah, if you go by Joey from Friends' advice!

What's the sloppiest thing you've done for a girl?
Matt: 'There's this song I used to sing to a girlfriend that goes, 'I'm loving you lots and lots/I'm loving you lots and lots..' I bought her a new stereo, found that song and when she walked in she heard it. It worked!'
Charlie: 'The best thing to do is write a song for a girl, put it on a tape and give it to her. That always worked for girlfriends at school. I always meant it, too.'