Shane Lynch

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Shane Lynch


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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Shane Eamon Mark Stephen Lynch
Born = birth date and age|1976|7|3
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Origin = Dublin, Ireland
Occupation = Singer
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Years_active = 1993–present
Associated_acts = Boyzone

Shane Eamon Mark Stephen Lynch (born July 3, 1976, in Dublin) is an Irish pop star and boy band vocalist of Boyzone fame. He is noted for his sense of fashion, clothing and jewellery, and for changing haircuts in nearly every Boyzone video.

In recent years, Lynch has re-taken up auto racing and participated in a reality television series.

Personal life

On March 8, 1998, he married Easther Bennett – a vocalist with the girl group known as Eternal. They separated in July 2000.Fact|date=February 2007

He announced on "Loose Women" on 16 April 2007 that he was engaged to girlfriend Sheena White. They got married in Ireland on 22 August 2007.

Shane and Sheena are expecting their first child together in November 2008.

His sisters, twins Keavy and Edele Lynch, found fame as members of the girl group B*Witched, and another sister Naomi who was part of the duo Buffalo G, who achieved a top 20 hit.

Acting credits

Lynch has become an actor in recent years and has played Eli Knox the chairman of Harchester United in the Sky One football soap opera entitled Dream Team.

Lynch participates in pantomimes, and starred in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" during the 2004 and 2005 Christmas seasons. In 2006, he starred in Cinderella at the tameside hippodrome as Prince Charming alongside Sue Jenkins as the evil stepmother Baroness.

Racing history

Lynch, a motor racing enthusiast even as child, won the Portuguese BMX Championship as a a boy. The Lynch family owned a villa in Portugal where they would spend two months of the summer in.

He has raced a Marcos, TVR then Mossler from 2002 to 2006 for Eclipse Motorsport team in the British GT Championship and came within a few laps of winning the 2003 championship at the last race of the season taking place at Brands Hatch when he crashed into a spinning backmarker he was lapping. Within that instant the title hopes were over.

In 2005 he was involved with the 'Christians In Motorsport' group and competed in the British GT Championship Silverstone round. Lynch addressed a crowd of race fans at the team marquee about how his faith helps him in racing and in life generally [ [http://www.christiansinmotorsport.org.uk Christians in Motorsport] ] Shane is now involved in drifting in the British Drift Championsip [ [http://www.eurodrift.com/?q=node/20 British Drift Championship ] ] and EDC series [http://www.europeandriftchampionship.eu/Round%203%20report.asp] He was involved in an accident while drifting at Silverstone, and although not hurt at all, the car was written off. [ [http://www.dailymotion.com/darkandier/video/x6pfer_big-drift-crash_auto Car Racing Crash Video ] ] He became a born again Christian after being involved in a motor sports accident.Fact|date=February 2007

Reality television

Shane Lynch has taken part in two British celebrity reality television series. Shane was in the second series of the Channel 4 reality television show, "The Games" 2004, and received a gold medal. Shane was also in the second series of ITVs "Love Island", he left after the fifth week. Shane is set to compete in the new series of Sky One's Cirque De Celebrite in the Autumn of 2007.

Shane was a mechanic before he joined Boyzone.

He's a big fan of Georgetown Hoyas, he collects memorabilias, clothes, etc.

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