Blue

British boyband Blue have today announced they are reforming for CapitalFM’s Summertime Ball. The band will follow in the footsteps of Take That and Boyzone who both split to try going solo before announcing their reunion.

“We’re absolutely so ecstatic to be back together,” Blue member Duncan James said. “We met up a couple of weeks ago to talk about it and we are so excited. I think we’re going to enjoy it even more the second time round.”

Lee Ryan, Duncan James, Antony Costa and Simon Webbe sold an estimated seven million albums and four million singles together before they split in 2005.

In the four year gap, Simon launched a successful solo career, Duncan was a contestant on Dancing On Ice and both Simon and Anthony appeared on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here.

The boys did not say whether they had any plans to release any new material.