BRIAN McFadden has wished ex-fiancee Delta Goodrem all the best with her new romantic life.

McFadden said the singer, 26, told him she was going on a date with 18-year-old Nick Jonas before they were photographed in Los Angeles last week.

“It’s fine, you see it (the photo) and accept it for what it is,” McFadden said yesterday. “If I didn’t like it I would have said something or cracked it on Twitter.”

McFadden has also dismissed rumours Goodrem dumped him – saying they had simply grown apart after seven years.

“I’m a hothead, if I was dumped everyone would have known about it,” he said, adding that he’s ready to look for a new relationship.

“I’m definitely ready to go out on dates, I just haven’t got time. Most of my time is spent with the boys.”

McFadden spent yesterday in Brisbane filming two videos for his double-A side single Come Party and That’s How Life Goes, released next month.

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Brian and Kyle Sandilands exclusively talk to Seven News about the ridiculous V Australia incident. Watch the video below.

The judging panel on Australia’s Got Talent have been confirmed to return for the fifth season, with filming for the series to commence next month.

Dannii Minogue, who has been with the series since its inception in 2007, will be rejoined by Kyle Sandilands and Brian McFadden, who were added to the judging panel last year following an overhaul of the show. Grant Denyer also returns as host.

Australia’s Got Talent was renewed for a fifth season by the Seven Network last year, however, it was not confirmed at the time whether the judging panel would return.

Initial auditions to compete in the fifth season took place late last year, with those successful applicants to take part in the filmed rounds beginning next month.

Filming for the audition rounds will kick-off on the Gold Coast 19 February, followed by three days in Melbourne from 25 February. Auditions will also take place in Sydney on 12 and 13 March, concluding in Perth on 20 March.

Applications to be part of the audience can be made here.

An airdate for Australia’s Got Talent is yet to be announced; however it is expected to premiere on Seven in April.

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BRIAN McFadden yesterday hit back at British reports he has been “begging” and “pleading” to reunite with Westlife, the band that cut his musical teeth.

Following last week’s statement by the mouthpiece of the Irish foursome, Shane Filan, that the band would not feel comfortable if McFadden returned, stories starting circulating in the UK.

A Tweet by Mr Delta Goodrem saying he “would love to do an album” with the band topped it off.

“People need to stop taking everything I say so literally,” he told Confidential.

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TWITTER fan Brian McFadden has found a new way to reach out to absent fiancee Delta Goodrem.

With Goodrem away in the US working on her next album, McFadden asked Confidential to capture a shot of his new haircut and put it up on our website so that she could regard the new hairstyle from afar.

So we dutifully got a few shots of the cut – his old style but shaved over the ears to the nape in a kind of “mini mullet”.

McFadden is thrilled with the cut.

We’re thinking Goodrem may have some reservations …

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From boy band phenomenon, stadium filler and tabloid fodder, through to dad, immigrant and rising pop star. Brian McFadden has experienced all the trappings of fame and fortune. Now at 30 years of age, the Irish singer is going through his own personal renaissance, as Lars Brandle discovers.

When asked to choose his three biggest career highlights, Brian McFadden is quick off the mark. Right up there is the first time he played to 80,000 fans at an open-air stadium, standing alongside his former Westlife bandmates. And there was the time he performed for and met the late Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. Both are extraordinary moments, the kind you could dine off for the rest of time. And to round-out the highlight reel perhaps the first milliondollar cheque, or the inaugural world tour? Nope. McFadden instead recalls the time his single Just Say So (featuring Kevin Rudolph) topped the Australian singles chart.

“I never thought in the twilight of my career, if you will, that I’d ever get back to that. I thought my days of getting No. 1s was in the past,” he tells TMN. “It meant more to me than any other No. 1 I’ve ever had.”

That McFadden ranks Australian chart success alongside an audience with the Pontiff and those early tastes of the “big league” shows just how far he’s come. The lad from Dublin is a changed man. He’s now at home in a new country, he’s got business on his mind and his musical output is a world away from his pop fare with Westlife.

On his latest effort, McFadden has turned away from the generic pop-ballad-with-key-change formula and ventured down a more synthetic route. One new track he’s road-testing introduces a rap, performed by Marvin Priest. McFadden knows he’s not getting any younger, and pop music shows little respect for the aged.

“I’m probably the oldest pop artist out there at the moment,” McFadden muses. “If you take away rock bands and established artists like Elton John and you just consider pop music — people like Justin Bieber, or even Gaga, who is an older artist — there’s probably no-one older than me doing it at the moment.”

When TMN calls, McFadden’s voice is swamped in an aural haze of beats and synths. He’s in the studio, laying down tracks with US-born Rob Conley, his collaborator on the Wall of Soundz album. His third solo set spawned Just Say So, the top-20 hit Chemical Rush, and airplay smash Mistakes, a duet with his fiance Delta Goodrem. However, Wall of Soundz debuted at a disappointing No. 27 on the ARIA Albums Chart in May, well-down on the No. 5 opening of his 2008 sophomore solo album Set In Stone.
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Irish-born, Sydney-based popstar Brian McFadden is no longer eligible for this year’s Breakthrough Artist award after ARIA today ruled him out due to his “previous success”.

With industry voting opening yesterday, many voters were surprised by McFadden’s inclusion in the category, given his previous success with million-album-selling boy-band Westlife and two previous solo albums (released through international labels).

After being approached by TMN, ARIA Award producer Mark Pope responded with the news and this statement:

“The ARIA Awards eligibility vetting process is rigorous, but not fool proof. In spite of three gates of checks and balances, still the odd anomaly slips through the cracks.

Brian Mc Fadden may be a new Australian, but it is obvious, given his previous success, that he is not a Breakthrough Artist as defined in the ARIA Awards Eligibility Document. The situation has now been rectified.”

He will be still eligible for other categories (Best Male, Best Pop Release) , given he’s been a ‘resident in Australia for at least six months’ as the ARIA guidelines lay out.

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