Joey McIntyre’s Catholic mom once called New Kids on the Block’s record company
nypost.comThe Right Stuff.” New Kids on the Block singer Joey McIntyre’s mom wanted to ensure that the world-famous boy band kept it clean and wholesome.“My mother was a staunch Catholic.
I mean, she actually called the record company [because] there was a little too much cleavage in one of our videos and was like, ‘Change that clip,'” McIntyre, 51, the youngest of the five band members, told The Post.McIntyre, the youngest of nine children, is thankful his late mom was so religious.“I mean, thank God, because I wouldn’t be here, right?
I mean, birth control was not an option, so that’s why they had nine kids. They just kept going, God Bless them.”The pop star and his fellow bandmates — Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood and brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight — released their eighth album “Still Kids” on Friday, their first in 11 years, and will embark on a 40-city concert tour this summer.The group, which formed in 1984, disbanded in 1994, but reunited in 2008 because the timing was right, McIntyre said. “You have to be patient.
And I think a lot of people wanted us to get together for award shows or their TV show, all this stuff. And we knew we had something more special than that,” he said.“And so when we were ready and we did do it, our fans were ready too.”The guys enjoyed their fame in the ’80s and ’90s.“I don’t think we were celibate, let’s put it that way.
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