Taken from TV Hits - February 2004

The Cheeky Boys!

Wanna know which naughty Busted boy snogged 14 girls in one night? Our answers will scare ya!

Since Busted bounced into our lives almost two years ago, there have been highs, lows, scandals, shocks.. Oh course, tvhits! has been there every step of the way, and we know what's been really going on in the lives of Britain's most famous pop band!
So! Forget any ideas of censorship, we've got Busted where we want them.. on the receiving end of the cheekiest questions ever! Wanna know who snogged a dog? Who's been giving secret messages? And who's been fighting in the street? Are you ready to read the most honest interview the boys have given, ever?

Right fellas, are you ready for your grilling? Let's start with Matthew! What were you doing getting snapped in a strip club with a lap dancer on your knee?
Matt: Oh God! Ok, well here's what happened, but you've got to believe me, that's something I will regret for the rest of my days. I was set up! I went in to the club, but I was a bit sheepish about it because it's not the kind of thing I do. Peter Stringfellow (dodgy old man who owns the club and wears leopard print pants - ewww!) sat me down and kept filling my glass with booze. I was really drunk and he put a girl on my lap and made me have my picture taken! That's the last time I'll be going to a strip club, believe me!
Charlie: (smirks) I always used to think they were a bit dirty but I did go to one and it was awesome.. fit birds!

Ewww! You must get loads of offers from girls now, what's the biggest number of laydeez you've snogged in one night?
James: I don't really keep track of that kind of thing..
Matt: I've snogged loads of girls in one night! I haven't done it for a while, but we used to go to these teen raves when I was about 12. Me and my mate Aaron had a competition every time to se who could kiss the most girls. He got 27 one night, my record was 14, but that's not bad going, is it?
Charlie: That's more than me, but I did snog five in one night. I was 15 and it was at a ball and they're always total meat markets. It's pretty disgusting, but we were young!

14 girls in one night Matt? That's gross! Dd you always go for the fittest girls?
Matt: Nah, I even played Pull a Pig once! At the end of the night, whoever hasn't pulled or hasn't bought a round has to snog the ugliest girl in the place. It never works though..

That's harsh! Did you actually tell them they were minging?
James: I'd never be that rude.
Matt: Nooooo! I've said 'I don't find you attractive' before. Actually, that's quite mean isn't it? I didn't realise how harsh it was when I said it..
Charlie: I've had arguments with girls but I've never said that! That's a bit harsh! I used to argue with this girl at school when I was younger. She was so ugly! I got told off once for being harsh to her, but she just annoyed me!

Are you the sort of boys who say you'll call and never do?
Matt: I do that all the time, I'm really bad. Fans give me their numbers all the time and say 'Call me' and I'm always like, 'Yeah course I will' and I don't.
Charlie: I do that, too! I dunno man, you don't want to seem harsh so you just have to go along with it.

Do your fans ask you really rude questions all the time?
James: Yeah! One fan said, 'I wanna see your.. erm.. Bits!' I was like, 'Whaaaaaaat?'!

How rude! Talking about rudeness, do you take the mickey out of each other?
James: Yep. It's nomally about smells. Feet or farts.
Matt: Yeah, if there's loads of farts then it's usually me. But if there's the occasional amazing fart, then it's James. He saves them up.
James: My farts are the kind of farts that people actually want to be close to. I fart at appropriate moments. Like if everyone's bored, I'll fart to liven the place up!
Charlie: You both take the mick out of the things I say too. They're always going 'Rah, rah, rah!' They do it in front of people all the time!

Poor Charlie!
James: We were taking the mick out of him the other day too! He shook an orange juice that didn't have a lid on. It said shake it, so he went for it!
Matt: And it went all over him, right before we weer supposed to do a TV performance! He's just so clumsy. The clumsiest person I've ever met in my whole life.
James: Who shakes something when it doesn't have a top on?

Sounds like you two are right cheeky monkeys!
Matt: James was really winding me up the other day. I was having a massage from our groomer, a woman I trust, fully clothed..
James: Let me tell you the story. So there he is having this massage, making all these 'Ooh' and 'Aah' noises..
Matt: It was only cos I was really enjoying it cos I had a bad neck! I'd just moved out and had been sleeping on the floor in my new flat cos my bed hadn't come yet. So I was really getting into it and then I opened my eyes and looked up and our groomer is standing in front of me. It was James who had been rubbing his hands all over me, making me groan!
James: I moved in when she was chopping his back and Matt didn't realise. So I was doing it and he's going (James puts on girlie voice): 'Charlotte, you're amazing!' and it was me all the time! I had to lie down on the sofa because I was laughing so hard. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Matt: OK, let's not talk about it any more let's move on, please!

Ha ha! Did we mention we've got a bad back, too, James?! Do you boys still take the mick out of how messy James is?
James: Matt had a Chinese recently and it was growing out the box cos he left it out so long!
Matt: What really happened was that I'd moved out the flat and no one was at the house for a few days and I'd left it out. It wasn't like I walked in there everyone morning for my orange juice and left my Chinese there.
James: But I'm an expert in mould. If something's gone so mouldy it's unrecognisable, I can tell you what it is before it went off.
Matt: OK, what colour would this crisp go if it went mouldy then?
James: A tiny bit turquoise with a hint of brown. Crisps go soft but if you leave them, they develop blue lumps.

Enough bickering boys! When was the last time you had a full on fight?
Charlie: I get really, really annoyed when people are rude to me. Once I nearly smacked this guy ebcause of it. I went into this shop and the guy behind the counter goes, 'You're in that boyband aren't you?' I nodded and he goes, 'We had Brian May in here the other week, a real musician.' I got so furious, this rage passed through into my fist and I so wanted to smack him. I asked him if we weren't real musicians then and he goes, 'Well, you swap around instruments so you've got no real musical integrity in the band.' I was like, 'Have you ever stopped to think it might be because I play more than one instrument!' I was so mad!
Matt: That's so rude! There was this one time I was in Ireland having an argument with someone in the street. It was totally uncalled for, but this person came over and said, 'Right, you guys, break it up.. aren't you Matt from Busted?' I was like, 'Right, now I'm not!'
Charlie: And I had a massive argument with our manager. He was having a go at me for being late and I got so angry. I shouted really loud. That's probably the biggest argument I've had with a work person.

Do you fellas not fight with each other then?
Charlie: Never!
James: We don't really have time! The only place we'd have time is when we're travelling and if we did start arguing then, it'd be a bit stupid - why are we arguing when we're on a private jet?

Teasers!
We only tease 'em cos we love 'em!

Matt
Ya looked unnaturaly good as a laydee!
(Laughs) Oh my God, don't say that! I kept clocking myself in that dress and it was horrible! And girls' shoes - what the hell is all that about?
Let's face it, yer in a boy band..!
Grr.. That really gets to me y'know - when people don't get what we are, still. It's not that hard to understand!

James
The first album's much better than the second.
Harrumph! Why, exactly?
You don't look nearly as fit in the flesh!
Well, you don't look too good yourself!

Charlie
Gosh your eyebrows are huuge!
Thank you very much! I realy don't give a toss.
Your new album's rubbish!
Each to their own!
You're much shorter in the flesh.
Really? Short? Technically wrong, but otherwise, whatever!