COLLEEN Nolan and Shane Richie's son has returned to the stage with a stand-up show at Edinburgh Fringe Festivial. He talks about going from Universial Music to Universal Credit in 'Neporrhoids' - bringing the laughs by opening up on his career failures. Once upon a time Jake , 32, was the lead singer of pop-rock band Rixton and was close pals with Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran .
He toured with Ed and lived in his home, and was signed to Justin's controversial manager Scooter Braun . Now the singer and actor has discussed his epic fall from grace and said he was "blown to smithereens" when it all came crashing down - and he ended up signing on the dole. The 32-year-old told The Times : "We (Rixton) kicked off big time in America.
READ MORE ON COLEEN AND SHANE "We hung around with Biebs a fair bit. "It’s your classic story of a teen pop star who gets it all and loses it all ..
. [I had] an existential crisis at the end of my twenties ..
. " Jake went on: "The saddest thing was I was clinging on, trying to convince my friends and family that I was just taking a break. "But the truth is that my calendar was blocked out every single day from the age of 18 until 23, 24 - and then just nothing.
Most read in Showbiz "I’d never experienced failure in my whole life. Every audition I would go to I would get. It blew me to smithereens .
.." Jake was engaged to Little Mix star Jesy Nelson for a time, but they broke up in 2016 .
"I broke up with Jesy and moved into Ed Sheeran’s house ...