Darius World

Girls Want to get Jiggy with Mr Biggy

Sneak Magazine 24 November - 2 December 2002

The fans who want to get hot 'n' heavy with him! The love he let slip away! The look that drives him wild! Darius reveals all to Sneak

When Sneak met up with Darius last week for his steamiest shoot yet, the Scottish stud was still blushing ater a couple of frisky female admirers tried to break into his hotel room for much more than a singalong! "They just appeared from nowhere," he told us, still reeling. "They were wanting to get into my room to get jiggy with Mr Biggy!"

However, Daz resisted the temptation to take them up on their ofer. "I didn't think it was appropriate! I gave them both a peck on the cheek and an autograph," he said. "Besides what would my mum think?!"

But how does the buff babe magnet cope with all this constant attention? Relaxing at Sneak's photo shoot, Darius reveals all!

So how come we don't see you pictured out and about with different girls?

"I'm just discreet. I don't have it splashed over the papers out of respect to the gitl I am with and out of respect to her parents as well. I come from quite a private family. Although people feel they know me from the television, it's important forme to hav a private life."

Don't some girls want to go out with you as a 'trophy' boyfriend?

"I have no idea. If that's the caase, hopefully I haven't met them yet. I go with my gut instinct. So when I meet people I check them out and I tend to be right. The only times I've been wrong are when I've ignored my gut feeling and thought about things too much."

Have you got an inbuilt bullshit detector then?

"I'm a good judge of character."

What's it like being fancied by people you don't know?

"That's just down to people seeing an image in a magazine or a music video that they feel they connect with. I can completely understand that."

But how does that sort of thing make you feel?

"Hey, I'm a guy - I get excited! That's what Rushes is about. I wrote it when I was 16. It's about this girl I used to see whenever I got the bus home from school. i started writing the lyrics on my bus tickets and after a while I had the song. it got under my skin and in my veins. So I understand what it's like to fancy someone who doesn't know you. My heart used to skip a beat when I saw her."

Did you make a move on her?

"After about a year. I plucked up courage to speak to her, but all of a sudden she stopped gettting the bus. Then my mate told me she'd gone to Europe after her dad got a job abroad. I was gutted! So Rushes stems from my crush. But now, five years later, the song describes the adrenalin rush I get when I'm up there on stage, performing a song I've written, while girls throw phone numbers, teddy bears and underwear at me!2

Are you still getting explicit fan mail?

"Yeah. And I had one banner in Glasgow that said 'we love Darius' and then in brackets 'and we know why they call you Big D', which is my nickname! It almost put me off singing!"

Can you elaborate on that nickname a bit?!

"Er, not really! It's just great fun! don't take anything seriously."

Have you kissed any more fans on stage since you pulled one out of the audience in Aberdeen and smooched her?

"Yeah, it happened just the other week in Dublin, it was cool!"

Would you say you're a bit of an old-fashioned romantic?

"I dunno, I like spending time with a girl and wining and dinin her and taking her to her favourite bar. A dozen red roses on crisp white linen sheets always works too."

What sort of girl do you fancy?

"I've gone out with girls who have very different characters, so I honestly don't know what my ideal type is. But if you were to sum up the type of girl I usually go for, it'd be the girl-next-door. Jeans, T-shirt and freshly blow-dried hair. It gets me every time."

You don't ask for much. do you?!

"No! There's something so sexy about a girl who's just showered and blow-dried her hair. A little bit of lip salve is good too, and a nice smile."

OK, so which celebrity's hair turns you on?

"Cat Deeley's got really nice hair. I preferred it before she got the fringe cut, though. She's a lovely girl, too."

When was the last time you snogged someone?

"It was six weeks ago, when I was out in LA. It was kinda like a date."

It wasn't Kelly Osbourne was it?

"No it wasn't!"

It'd be great if you dated Kelly Osbourne!

"Really? I don't think we'd go together at all! She hasn't got the kind of hair we were talking about!"

Are girls quite forward with you?

"I've had all the grabbing, ripping stuff, but it doesn't worry me. I know how to handle myself."

How do you find posing for the Sneak cameras?

"Performing in front of a camera's exciting for me. Filming the video for Rushes out in LA was like being on the set of a movie!"

Some stars look at that type of thing as a business.

"That's horrible. They obviously don't enjoy what they do. I get up in the morning and I don't know what I'm going to do or where I'm going to be by the end of the day. That's exciting in itself!"

How often do you see the Pop Idol gang nowadays?

"I've only had one day off since February. That was on my birthday in August and I went back to see my family, so I've hardly seen my friends. The only time I see Will and Gareth is when we are doing the same tour."

You've detached yourself from Pop Idol a lot more than them?

"That's because they're in the tour and I'm not. I'm not a pop idol, I'm a singer/songwriter. I was on that show and it was my training."

You are still a pop idol to a lot of people, though.

"I think it's a silly term. To idolise someone is a dangerous thing. If you place me on a pedestal I'll fall off, but give me a guitar and I'll sing you a song! You can easily build someone up into something they're not. I certainly don't feel like a pop idol."

Do you want success in the US?

"Not yet - three years down the line, maybe. In the new year, my record company's releasing my stuff internationally. But look at Robbie Williams - he's on his fifth album already and he hasn't even had an edgeways stab at it. I love what Robbie does, but I won't be running off to America and not doing any interviews. I'm proud to be Scottish!"