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Jul 2020
20m 33s

Ronan Keating

Bbc Radio 5 Live
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The pop star talks to Nihal about his new album Twenty Twenty, head-butting the Pope’s hand, hanging up on Pavarotti and having his fifth child as the world entered lockdown due to Coronavirus.

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