Boyzone’s Ronan Keating has revealed the real reason he quit hosting Magic FM last week after seven years on air. The singer, 47, has opened up about how the death of his brother Ciaran, who died in a car crash last year , made him rethink life. Ronan – who is married to Australian producer Storm Keating – explained how working ‘too hard’ in the aftermath has caused him to take a pause.
‘I lost my brother last year and, for us, that was the turning point in all of our lives,’ he said, speaking at the Marie Keating Foundation’s golf gala, as per Dublin Live . ‘Storm and I probably pushed ourselves and worked a little too hard this year so that we can back off from work. We’re assessing life.
It has been a very tough 12 months.’ The Life is a Rollercoaster hitmaker explained how July marked the one-year anniversary since his death, which was ‘very difficult’ to comprehend. ‘I haven’t done The One Show in ages.
I left about six months ago. I had a great time doing it, but I couldn’t fit it in anymore,’ he said, explaining how his busy schedule would see him finishing the radio at 10am, have one hour at home, before going to the BBC for 2.30pm until 7.
30pm. ‘It was too much of a long day. I was going straight to bed when I got home to be ready to get up at 4am for radio the following day.
It was a conveyor belt. I backed off from The One Show and then from Magic FM.’ On his Magic exit, he explained: ‘I’ve had seven great years on Magic.
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