Oh, will you please just go away?

Oh, will you please just go away

Following his nauseating appearance on the Late Late Show, when he desperately tried to convince a sceptical nation that we should all have sympathy for him, Brian McFadden simply refuses to leave us alone.

As greedy for publicity as his appalling ex-wife, McFadden has now turned his attention-seeking radar in the direction of the Church which, he claims, is responsible for abusing him.

Obviously there's an angle here and with the release next week of his single Irish Son, McFadden has been quick to hop on the abuse bandwagon.

McFadden is adamant that he was hit in school, saying "I did personally suffer physical abuse" and that he "suffered the back of their hand three or four times". Maybe we live in an era of compassion fatigue, but since when did feeling the back of a teacher's hand qualify as physical abuse?

McFadden, who once seemed to be the most unaffected of the Westlife boys, has plans to open a cheap recording studio and bizarrely says: "There are so many artists like Patrick Casey and Damian Rice who nobody pays attention to."

Really? Would McFadden actually be referring to Paddy Casey, who is managed by Paul McGuinness, and Damien Rice, whose album O is one of the best-selling Irish albums in years?

McFadden's next song, he says, is called Demons, which is "about a dream I have where no one recognises me". Give it a few months, Brian, give it a few months.