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Conor Coyle

NI chippy worker Flying without Wings as Westlife star calls in for sausage supper

A Westlife fanatic from Co Fermanagh was starstruck on Monday evening after a member of the hit boyband called into the chip shop she was working in.

Avril Kelly was working in Beatty’s chip shop in Enniskillen along with two other members of staff when she spotted Kian Egan coming into the shop.

After checking with her colleagues that her eyes weren’t deceiving her, Avril served up Kian’s order of a battered sausage supper before getting a photo with the Sligo native.

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“He came walking in and I thought I recognised him. He came up and ordered and I knew it was him because I’m a massive Westlife fan,” Avril told Belfast Live.

“I looked at one of the other girls and said it has to be him, I had no doubt in my head it was him.

“I was a bit too scared to approach him so one of the other girls did, and he came over and got a picture with us and that was really it.

“I’m a massive fan and I just thought ‘oh my god, what is he doing here’. I don’t know where he was going or how he even found us.

Kian was also spotted pouring a pint at Enniskillen pub the Crowe’s Nest last week, and Avril said herself and coworkers Edel Braund and Heather Burns will never forget the night he popped into Beatty’s.

“It’s one of them nights that you’ll never forget, it definitely cheered up a Monday evening anyway,” Avril added.

“You don’t really expect a star of his quality to be in our wee chip shop.”

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