The Vamps hotel fan nudity horror

The Vamps will be making sure they lock their hotel rooms from now on… after fans burst in to find two of them naked.

The band’s lead singer Brad Simpson revealed all about the late-night encounter – but it was guitarist James McVey and bassist Connor Ball who were exposed to the excited followers.

‘We were in a hotel in Manchester and because we’re always used to staying in hotels and going back and forth between each other’s rooms, we leave the doors on a latch so we can just come in and out,’ 18-year-old Simpson explained.

‘We didn’t realise that some fans had got into the hotel and Connor and James were in bed and about five fans just walked into their rooms.’

‘We were naked,’ McVey, 19 confirmed, adding the visitors had seemed less interested in their bodies than in trying to recruit them to their Twitter followings. ‘We said please can you leave. And we can’t follow them on Twitter because they didn’t give their twitters to us,’ he laughed.

Ball, 18, added: ‘We got them out very quickly. We were a bit scared.’

[Originally published Metro, Guilty Pleasures, 15 April 2014]

The Vamps reveal celebrity crushes

While it is no secret James McVey of The Vamps is a Taylor Swift obsessive (he tweets her ALL the time), apparently she’s not the only one he has his eyes on.

And his bandmates Connor Ball, 20; Tristan Evans, 19 and Brad Simpson, 18, also want to meet some famous women.

In a break between gigs to promote their debut album, Meet The Vamps, the lads revealed who their dream dates would be.

James, are you still obsessing over Taylor Swift?

JM: I actually have many crushes at the moment. I feel a bit naughty. I am sort of cheating on Taylor with a few other babes. There are a few actresses that tickle my fancy. I like a Coronation Street actress – Georgia May Foote. But I’m not confident at all when it comes to talking to girls. I just abuse them on Twitter and send them loads of tweets.

What about the rest of you?

TE: I like Iggy Azalea. I haven’t tweeted her to let her know. I’m just waiting to meet her and then see if she’s too gangster for me. She would destroy me.

CB: I want to go out with Arianna Grande or Mila Kunis. She’s so hot.

And you, Brad?

BS: Zooey Deschannell. She’s funny, she’s quirky. She’s a bit different.

The Vamps: Our fans are too kinky

Hot new pop punk band The Vamps have revealed they are shocked by the level of flirty messages they receive online.

After taking the twittersphere by storm – and subsequently the charts with their No.2 hit Can We Dance in October last year – the lads said some fans were a little overzealous when it comes to expressing their appreciation.

‘There is branch of the English fans who are the worst,’ band founder James McVey, 19, told Guilty Pleasures during an exclusive chat.

He said the home crowd were ‘the raunchiest. They propose things I couldn’t even think of!’

Explaining his shock at the sexually graphic detail some of his Twitter fans go into – and reading some choice examples too explicit to reprint – the guitarist’s band-mates told how they were forced to brace themselves after coming face-to-face with one of their most notorious social media fans at a meet and greet in Manchester.

‘We were scared to meet her,’ explains West Midlands-born lead singer Bradley Simpson, 18.

‘We were expecting her to literally pounce on James but she just looked at him. It’s all talk! I expected her to literally rub herself on him,’ he laughed.

Having spent much of last year supporting acts on tour including McFly, Lawson and Selena Gomez, the boys are looking forward to offering musical support to Taylor Swift when she arrives in Britain next month.

‘James wants to be married to her with kids within the next year,’ drummer Tristan Evans, 19, told us, with McVey confirming he has something of a crush on Harry Styles’ ex.

But the boys are most excited to be releasing more music of their own – with a debut album due in April and their brilliant new single Wild Heart out this week.

‘I think there is an element that we’re a little scared the second one won’t do as well,’ McVey said.

‘But at the same time we are just so grateful to have the fans supporting us. Whatever happens we’ll enjoy it,’ he went on.

[Origianlly published Metro, Guilty Pleasures, Monday 20 January 2014]