B*Witched star Keavy Lynch has responded to ‘nepotism’ accusations – admitting her famous Boyzone brother Shane Lynch ‘surprised’ everyone when he said he was in a boyband.

Keavy and her twin sister Edele, who is also her bandmate, are the younger sisters of the Boyzone singer.

In a new interview, the C’est La Vie hitmaker admits that when Shane first came home and said he was going to be in a boyband, the family were ‘surprised’.

She said: ‘Shane was a bit of a surprise to be honest when he came home and said he was in a boyband. It was like “what”! But was he an inspiration? I don’t know if he was.’

Keavy also addressed nepotism comments made after B*Witched supported Boyzone on their two-night farewell tour at London’s Emirates Stadium last month.

‘I think Edele and I knew that we wanted to be in performing arts really young because it was all we ever did outside of school. We just did the Emirates Stadium with Boyzone a couple of weeks ago, and l did see a couple of comments like “nepotism at best”, and it really wasn’t. It didn’t actually come from Shane; it came through the promoter.

‘We were a better fit even because we were Shane’s sisters, it just made it all a bit more Irish and familiar to everybody.’

Keavy also spoke about relentless days in the girl group back in the 90s, saying that the band was worked ’16-17 hours every day’, adding: ‘We definitely were worked too hard.’

‘It was absolutely insane. We worked 16-17 hours every day and maybe had one day off every three months.

‘Our manager at the time believed that you could never take any time off and the minute you did it would end. So that was her driver. We were doing the world territories at the same time, so anytime we were in the car we were on a phone to another part of the world doing an interview.

‘We could be in three different countries in one day at times. We got to the point that we didn’t even know where we were.

‘I remember one time we landed somewhere, and we couldn’t even remember where we’d came from to find the baggage carousel. Someone stopped us and said that we looked a bit lost.

‘We definitely were worked too hard,’ she told Vinyl Scouse on his YouTube channel.

The mother-of-three said she became ‘completely exhausted’ when she was younger in the band, and said record contracts should’ve provided them with access to counsellors.

One instance that deeply affected them was when they were dropped by Sony in 2001.

The sudden termination came as a massive shock to the band, as they had already sold over three million records and were preparing to release their highly anticipated third album.

Keavy said: ‘When you grow up, you learn more about taking care of yourself as a human being. If I could go back and know what I know now, it would be to set up having weekly support for each of us.

‘I do think record contracts should’ve come with counsellors. I think that the industry did impact me, but it was also because of the type of person I was. I’ve done a lot of work on myself…

‘So the thing I would change would be to get some support to learn where my boundaries should’ve been to protect myself,’ added Keavy.