Seamless transition from boyband success

TO fame-hungry X Factor wannabes, Derek Moran’s CV must read like a wish-list come true.

Signed up by Warner Brothers Music as a member of boy band, D-Side, at the age of 16, by his early 20s Moran had travelled the world, achieved massive success across Europe and the Far East, with three top-10 singles in the UK and a number-one album in Japan, and enjoyed the adulation of teenyboppers by the million.

He then moved seamlessly into television, where, for the past five years, he has presented Channel 5 children’s TV programming strand, Milkshake!, whose candy-coloured, cartoon characters are broadcast between 6am and 9am.