Tom Fletcher is one of the chirpy frontmen with lovable pop goons McFly. He went to Sylvia Young Theatre School before failing to join Busted and forming McFly Instead. McFlys Greatest Hits is out next month and the new single The Heart Never Lies is out on Monday. McFly present the Nickelodean awards on October 27 on Nickelodean

Tom Fletcher

You're presenting a children;s awards show. Don't want to do more grown-up stuff?
Its not like a so-called cool awards show, more about having a laugh. They do it in America and no one cares thats it's for children. They just do it for fun. Most of our fans are aged 16 to 20 anyway.

Charlie left Busted to do something more credible. Will you do the same thing to McFly?
No, we're all happy in McFly. i just don't think he was happy in Busted. We don't have people writing songs for us or telling us we have to do pop stuff. If we want to change, it's on out power to do so

What's the weirdest thing a fan's done to meet you?
It's always a shock when they come all the way from smewhere like Japan. They spent all their money on plane tickets and hotels just to see us on tour. That's nuts. we used to get girls climbing up the drainpipe as well when we used to live together. We all lived in the same house for the first two years and you'd get girls trying to climb in the windows.

Was it a nuisance?
Yes, it was a pain in the *** when we were trying to watch TV. We got rid of them by shooting them with paintball guns.

You could have had someone's eye out.
No,they were only the spring-loaded ones. It was a good way of getting them out. We were good shots.

What has been your most extravant purchase?
My house

How many toilets do you have?
Quite a few. Not more then ten though. I think i've got five. Not too many. I've got quite a few guitars, it;s part of the job. I just buy guitars when i feel like having a newq one. I bought quite a few when we started but now i'm down to one a year. My favourite is my wine-red Les Paul. It's the nicest to play.

What is the strangest gig you've donw?
Getting our clothes off at G.A.Y. It was a bet with Jeremy, who runs it. He said if we were number ne we'd have to take our clothes off and it turned out we were number one that week. We didn't really have a choice. He supplied us with plenty of alcohol in advance. It went down quite well with the crowd.

What was you;r last dream about?
I woke up singing That's Thw Way I Like It. I thought i was hearing it on the TV but i woke up singing it. That was weired I've never woken up singing before.

Have you ever done a really loud fart in puplic?
All the time. I've got no problem with it. We all try to pop them out whenever we can if we're in company and then blame it on the others. If we;re being interviewed it's funny. Or in a lift.

What are the highs and lows of going to a stage school?
There aren;t any lows. i had an amazing time. i had the best time of my life there. It was better than going to the s***ty school round the corner from me, Only having to do maths three says a week was good. We sang and acted on the othe two. there were only 150 kids in my school, so you know everyone. It's like a big family and the teachers were really nice.

You were in the film Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan. Why haven't you gone mad like she has?
We keep each other grounded. That was our first experiance of being around someone really famous. That whole Hollywood It-girl lifestyle is insane. We're not really into the whole celeb thing either. We like chilling out at home and going to our local pubs rather then the clubs in London. Doing a film was an amazing experience, though we couldn't say no.

Did you send any get well cards to her in rehab?
No, we haven't seen her since the film premiere, i don't know if we did anything to upset her.