In a taxi with…Lee Ryan

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Last updated at 8:01 PM on 3rd July 2010

The former boy-band singer talks money, musicals and monikers – and turns the air Blue

I'm a little concerned about meeting Lee Ryan, former Blue heart-throb, for this article; he has 'previous' where taxis are concerned. Not only has he claimed to have had sex in the back of one, he's also been fined for punching a cab driver. no wonder our cabbie, Ken from Billericay, looks apprehensive. Lee is less than amused to be reminded of his previous antics: 'Don't start on that or I'll slap you,' he says, getting more than a little flinty.

It seems that Lee, still only 26, has had more to live down than most in his brief career. For every high – Blue's 12 hits and seven million record sales, for instance – there's been a low: a post-9/11 interview in which, much to the horror of his band-mates, he claimed the attacks were 'blown out of proportion'; storming off the set of Hell's Kitchen after Marco Pierre White made an offhand remark about 'pikeys'; and, most recently, an admission in a tabloid interview that, due to the recession and a string of bad investments, he'd lost all his assets, including a

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