COP a look at this friendly-faced garda – it’s Nicky Byrne on patrol in Dublin.The Westlife singer went under-cover to live out his dream and pound the beat in the capital.
And he made an arresting sight when he caught up with shifty-looking character – comic and TV presenter Jason Byrne.
Out went Nicky’s leather trousers and coiffed blond locks, in came short dark hair and the full guard’s uniform as he became Garda Mick Byrne for TV series Anonymous.
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"I actually did the aptitude test for the guards before I got into Westlife, so this show was a dream come true for one day.”
But it was a nightmare for unsuspected members of the public as he set out to clean up the streets of Swords and arrest people for walking too fast.
"I can’t believe the respect people had for me and the way they did all of the stupid things I told them,” he laughed.
Garda Mick also caused havoc in the Jervis Street Shopping Center with his motorized shopping trolley. And he managed to completely fool his parents as well as best mate, soccer star Gary Kelly and Rugby ace, Brian O’Driscoll.
A Garda spokesman said they had no problem with Nicky posing as a guard for a day,
"Under section 61 of the Garda Siochana Act 2005, it’s fine for a person to wear any Garda uniform for TV, film or theatre," he said.
Nicky had actually been waiting for the results of the police aptitude test when he was encouraged to audition for a new boyband called IOU.
Since shooting to fame and fortune with the renamed Westlife, and marrying Taoiseach’s daughter Georgina, he’s more at home with screaming fans that screeching sirens, but he took it all in his stride.
The show kicks off the third series of Anonymous which also includes an eagerly-anticipated episode in which model Glenda Gilson disguises herself as eco warrior Mairead Ni Bauchalli and launches her ‘Ugg Boots For Africa’ campaign.
Anonymous begins a new season on RTE Two at 9:30pm on Monday March 3.
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