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Abz Love says reunited boy band Five may need some "breathable and stretchy" stage outfits for their upcoming tour to help them cope with their dance routines now they are all in the 40s.

The group, reuniting with all five original members for the first time in 25 years, are gearing up for a major tour after years of performing in smaller line-ups.

Ritchie Neville has opened up about the tough reality of life in a boyband and said he only got "two days off in two years".

Boybands Forever on BBC Two explores the highs and lows of life as a pop pin-up, something Five's Ritchie Neville knows only too well...

Positioned as the ‘bad boys’ of pop, fame came quickly for the five-piece but things were not always as great as they seemed

IN FOCUS: Screaming girls. Sudden riches. Your face on the cover of Smash Hits magazine. Life in a Nineties boyband sounds like a dream, but one survivor of the maelstrom likens it more to being in the military. Jessie Thompson goes behind the scenes of revealing new BBC documentary ‘Boybands…

Mobbed, groped, overworked, paid a pittance and given little time off … ahead of a major TV series about boybands, former members of 5ive and 911 reveal what success was really like for many

You weren't anyone in the 90s without a music rivalry and it seems B*Witched and boyband Five weren't exactly friends a lot of the time but Beyonce wanted to hit the town with them

Conflict between bands, conflict within bands, booze, breakdowns and awards-show agony: in these extracts from oral history Reach for the Stars, Five, Steps, Pete Waterman and more spill about the dark side of the decade