Below is the Mirror's interview with the boys..
OZZY bit off a bat’s head. Liam hit Noel with his guitar. Even Take That trashed a few TVs in their time.
Now come sweet-faced boyband The Wanted, armed – and seriously dangerous – with Aero Bubbles.
A choccy spirit of rock and roll took over the boys on the tour bus, in a prank-gone-wrong that hospitalised their road manager.
Amid all the no-doubt-hilarious hi-jinx and banter, band genius Jay McGuiness took it upon himself to jam one of the minty chocolates in the earhole of long-suffering bandservant Martin Wright.
Jay, 20, confesses that at the time he didn’t quite realise the trouble he’d caused.
He tells me: “We’re calling it Aerogate. Basically I crumbled up some Aero and thumbed it into Martin’s ear while he was driving us to an interview. But over time, because we’ve been so busy, he couldn’t really get it checked out so he went a bit deaf.”
As the choc slowly cemented in his inner ear, poor Martin lost all hearing on his right side.
“If you spoke to him in the wrong ear, he was just blank. Well, deaf. It was a bit scary,” remembers Jay.
Eventually (presumably once he’d tucked the boys in with their teddies), he took himself off to casualty – beginning a 72-HOUR medical odyssey.
After visiting three hospitals, he finally had the Aero syringed out, but even now his hearing is not fully right.
Says Jay: “Martin went to three hospitals and kept having to get referred on to see specialists as they couldn’t get it out.”
Martin took his revenge on Jay, though, joking that where there’s blame, there’s definitely a claim. “He said he could sue me for £75,000,” says Jay. “He looked it up and found out his rights and everything.
“My response was just ‘Oh, no, please don’t do that!’”
The lads were on top form during a chat on London’s South Bank yesterday– giving me a, ahem, real lift too. They were out celebrating new single, Glad You Came, expected to be Sunday’s No1.
But the accident-prone party boys had one more injury to contend with when Tom Parker, 22, aggravated an old knee injury during a mid-interview “playfight” (those boys!)
He crashed down in agony before being carried off by a flunky.
He spent last night receiving physio. Where, presumably, the boys paid a visit, wielding a bunch of grapes. And some Aeros.
