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"Boyzone have reportedly been ditched by manager Louis Walsh and advised to split up. Low ticket sales for their latest tour and Ronan Keating&amp;#039;s affair with a dancer were blamed for the move, the News of the World reports. &amp;quot;Louis has told Boyzone they&amp;#039;re finished. Ronan doesn&amp;#039;t want to accept it but without Louis they have no chance,&amp;quot; a source said. &amp;quot;The affair changed everything for many fans. It destroyed the family-friendly image that made the band popular.  &amp;quot;They kept a diehard fanbase but the &amp;#039;Brother&amp;#039; tour earlier this year wasn&amp;#039;t a big success. Louis didn&amp;#039;t bother seeing a single show. [They] just couldn&amp;#039;t compete with the Take That comeback and lots of tickets weren&amp;#039;t sold. So Louis decided it was the right time for the band to finish.&amp;quot; However, a close friend of Keating&amp;#039;s insisted that Boyzone will stay together, saying: &amp;quot;Despite what Louis might say, in the end he had very little to do with Boyzone - and the last tour was actually a success.&amp;quot; The band included a tribute to Stephen Gately in their &amp;#039;Brother&amp;#039; tour, following his death in Majorca in 2009. Watch the music video for Boyzone&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Love Is A Hurricane&amp;#039; below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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