ÿþ<html> <head> <title>Busted Online</title> <LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="/busted/style.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <i>Taken from Sugar - March 2004</i><p> <a href="/busted/scans/sugar/charlie.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/busted/scans/sugar/charlie.jpg" style="border:1 solid black" height="70" width="70"></a><p> <b><u>I'm getting married when I'm 26!</b></u></center><p> <i>He's usually joking around - but Charlie Busted's got a serious side too..</i><p> <b>Hi Charlie. You must be <i>so</i> busy these days. Do you get to see your family often?</b><br> Not as much as I'd like to. I'm away loads with the band so it's quite difficult. Plus my parents live in Suffolk, my brother Ed's at university in Nottingham, and my older brother Will lives in London. So we're really spread out which is a shame.<p> <b>Are your family pretty close then?</b><br> Yeah, we're really really close - and I can talk to them about absolutely anything. We got especially close when my mum was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was only seven when it happened, but it definitely made my family value each other.<p> <b>Was your mum OK in the end?</b><br> Yeah, she recovered, so that was all cool. But it was awful at the time. I'm very close to my mum - she's such a caring, special person.<p> <b>And what about your brothers - do you ever row?</b><br> Not really - my brothers and I get on brilliantly. One of them will definitely be my best man. My favourite memories are on family Christmasses, and they wouldn't have been the same without my brothers. We have a great laugh together.<p> <b>You must run up huge phone bills staaying in touch with them then?</b><br> Well, actually I'm really bad at phoning my mum - and I feel very guilty about it. But I text a lot - I'm always texting my mum, dad, brothers and all of my friends. I love to text!<p> <b>And if there anyone you text more than most - maybe someone special in your life?</b><br> Perhaps.. Well, yes - I am seeing someone pretty special. But I don't want to talk about her too much, I'm afraid. I don't want to jinx it or anything!<p> <b>Oooh, sounds intriguing! So have you ever been in love?</b><br> Yeah, once. I split up with this girl and it felt terrible, really painful. Eventually we got back together, but then we split up again. It was easier the second time round though. We just decided to have a break - what with me being so busy with the band, we'd kind of drifted apart, so it was the right decision at the time..<p> <b>But when you do meet Miss Right, d'you reckon you'll wanan get married?</b><br> Yeah, I'd like to get hitched when I'm about 26 - I want to have kids when I'm still young enough to be a cool dad. And I reckon the woman I marry will be confident - and hopefully blonde!<p> <b>Fair play! Do you remember the last time you blubbed?</b><br> It sounds pathetic but there's one song that always gets me emotional, and I sang it the other day. It's my favourite songs ever - <i>Hurt</i> by the Nine Inch Nails. That made me <i>almost</i> cry if that counts!<p> <b>Hmmm! What's the toughest experience you've had to face?</b><br> Last year one of my friends died after falling off a roof. It was absolutely awful. I sang <i>Tear's from Heaven</i> at his memorial service.<p> <b>That must have been really difficult for you..</b><br> Yeah it was. I absolutely didn't think I'd be able to do it. I walked up there, and the room was so silent. It was full of his friends and family and I was really nervous. But I just did it, and it was actually one of the best performances emotionally I've ever done.<p> <b>Were you really good mates with him?</b><br> Yeah - he was in my house at school. When you're at boarding school you get to know the people in your house very well because you spend a lot of time together. And he was the first person I actually knew that had died. It was a really hard time.<p> <b>Are you religious?</b><br> Yes. I completely believe in the Bible and everything it says, but I'm not as religiously active as my dad and brother are.<p> <b>So if you could be God for the day, what five things would you change?</b><br> I'd make the world a much friendlier place for starters. I'd stop people getting beaten up on the streets - in fact, I'd stop bad stuff generally. And I'd put a <i>complete</i> ban on reality TV, and reduce taxes!<p> <b>Charlie's angel!</b><p> Charlie's pretty coy about his 'special someone' - aka his girlfriend Camilla Smith. The pair were childhood sweethearts when they were at Uppingham School together, and he wrote <i>Without You</i> about her. They've recently started seeing each other again - but is she the one? Watch this space..<p> </body> </html>