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After being fast-tracked to stardom, the bad boys of Y2K pop butted heads and burned out. They explain how they faced their demons for an arena-sized reunion – and why Simon Cowell was ‘a proper winker’

INTERVIEW: Never-ending lines of girls, not even knowing what country they were in, and nearly getting punched by Simon Cowell. The chart-topping band are reuniting to tour but, as they tell Hannah Ewens, they’re still dealing with the madness and trauma of their years at the top

The Everybody Get Down hit-makers will be joined by special guest Naughty Boy

Boybands Forever on BBC Two explores the highs and lows of life as a pop pin-up, something Five's Ritchie Neville knows only too well...

You weren't anyone in the 90s without a music rivalry and it seems B*Witched and boyband Five weren't exactly friends a lot of the time but Beyonce wanted to hit the town with them

Having spent many summers in the nearby Cooley Peninsula, I thought that I knew Boyne Valley quite well

Conflict between bands, conflict within bands, booze, breakdowns and awards-show agony: in these extracts from oral history Reach for the Stars, Five, Steps, Pete Waterman and more spill about the dark side of the decade

Fans might struggle to recognise this member of a popular 90s boyband after he ditched his light brown floppy hair and hardened up his look with a much edgier style

The singer now in his 40s makes up one fifth of the well loved boyband Five who had several chart-topping songs from 1997 to 2001.