Jay McGuiness on life after The Wanted and his return to Notts

Jay McGuiness, who shot to fame with boyband The Wanted, is a triple threat. The Nottinghamshire-born star can sing, together with the rest of the group achieving worldwide success with Glad You Came and All Time Low.

"We get the audience screaming every now and again and quite a few laughs, not everyone expects that. While watching it, try and work out what's going on, there's more going on than meets the eye. Just pay attention, that's all I'll say." While Jay's never had a ghostly experience, and adds "I don't really want one," co-star Fiona is a firm believer. "In some of these old theatres, she gets freaked out that she can feel things," he says.

"I used to get the train into Nottingham to college and it would go through Rolleston, Fiskerton, Thurgarton, Burton Joyce, Carlton and so all those names are mixed altogether to make Calleston. The whole town is based on a market town, which is what I grew up with in Newark-on-Trent, cobbled streets and a little square in the community.

He's had quite a lucky streak in TV shows. Together with fellow The Wanted star Siva Kaneswaran, he won Channel 4's Celebrity Hunted in aid of Stand Up to Cancer in 2017 and emerged winner in Richard Osman's House of Games in 2022. During the play's five-day run in Nottingham, Jay will be staying at his mum Maureen's house near Newark. It's there his Strictly Glitterball trophy takes pride of place in the toilet. He says: "I think it's a nice reminder. She always enjoyed watching me dancing and definitely loved The Wanted but I think she was very happy that I did Strictly as she'd always seen me dancing as a kid.

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