Boyzone singer Ronan Keating’s son Jack enters Love Island’s Casa Amor

Jack Keating is the latest Love Island contestant to have a famous parent, alongside Gemma Owen, daughter of former professional footballer Michael Owen

This is everything you need to know about the Irish looking to turn some heads , and his famous father.

When asked why he wants to go on Love Island, and why now, he said: “I’ve been single for a long time, probably four or five years now and I’ve really been missing that spark that I haven’t been getting on the dating scene, like I’ve been dating for a long time.

Jack, who said his dad is his “best mate”, described himself as a “very family oriented person” who “wears my heart on my sleeve a lot of the time”.

Keating is an Irish singer best known for his time in the band Boyzone, in which he sang alongside Keith Duffy, Michael Graham, Shane Lynch and Stephen Gately. Currently, Keating hosts a breakfast show on Magic Radio.

The group was formed by manager Louis Walsh who was looking to form an Irish version of Take That. He put out advertisements in Irish newspapers and held auditions for the group in The Ormond Centre in Dublin.

As a band, they performed in pubs and clubs before being signed by the music label PolyGram in 1994. From 1994 to 1999, Boyzone released three studio albums - Said and Done, A Different Beat and Where We Belong.

After six years together, in 1999, Boyzone as a group went on hiatus. Whilst he was still a member of Boyzone, Keating recorded a version of When You Say Nothing at All for the film Notting Hill, which peaked at number one in the UK charts, and paved the way for a successful solo career.

He released his debut solo album in 2000, titled Ronan, which featured four UK and Irish top 10 singles - When You Say Nothing at All, Life is a Rollercoaster, The Way You Make Me Feel and Lovin’ Eat Day.

Over the course of his solo career, Keating released 12 studio albums: Destination (2002), Turn It On (2003), 10 Years of Hits (2004), Bring You Home (2006), Songs for My Mother (2009), Winter Songs (2009), Duet (2010), When Ronan Met Burt (2011), Fires (2012), Time of My Life (2016), Twenty Twenty (2020) and Songs from Home (2021).

Outside of music, Keating has done presenting work on TV and radio, including being a judge on the Australian version of The X Factor, a coach on the fifth season of The Voice Australia, co-hosting Magic Breakfast, presenting The One Show and appearing as a guest panellist on Loose Women.

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What has he said about son Jack going on Love Island?

“Now, I don’t want you all leaving the gig now to go home and watch it, wait till the end and watch it on [the ITV Hub] but yeah, very exciting, he’s in Casa Amor. I have been sh**ting myself. I haven’t been able to share anything with you, but now I can.

“I don’t know how to feel. I’m very excited for him, he’s going to be amazing, he’s a sweetheart, he’s got the biggest heart in the world and I’m so proud of him.”