Louis Walsh has said he originally wanted to form a new girl group but didn’t “get the right girls” – and has now revealed his new boyband.
The former X Factor judge – who made a success out of Westlife and Girls Aloud – has been cultivating a new band for over a year.
After 1,000 auditions, Louis has chosen his new five-piece that he hopes to take to dizzying new heights in their career.
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Speaking about the auditions, Louis admitted: “I was going to do a girl group and I did auditions but I didn’t get the right girls.
“Then when I did the boys auditions, there was excitement here. There was something young and fresh and different.
“There were all these teenagers coming in, singing their own songs, doing their own thing.
“And it was too good to say no to – and here we are.”
The quintet is made up of Conor O’Farrell, 20, from Meath, Harry O’Connell, 19, Conor Davis, 19, from Dublin, Nueng Kelly, 20, from Carlow and 17-year-old Navan native Joshua Regala.
Louis told Sunday Independent’s Life magazine that the band – who have yet to be given a name - have already recorded 10 songs in London with Brian Higgins, who wrote hits for Sugababes and Girls Aloud.
But the band is still not signed to a record deal.
But the Mayo mogul said he is ready to take on a new challenge.
“There has been nobody since One Direction and if we get the right songs, it’s a modern boy band.
“There sound is somewhere between One Republic and Five Seconds. It’s not what people would expect, and it is not what I had expected,” he added.
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