Nathan Sykes on dealing with 'eye-opening' female attention

Singer Nathan Sykes, who recently launched an incredibly successful solo career, has revealed that he was very young when The Wanted rose to fame and he quickly found himself in some very compromising situations.

Speaking to The Line of Best Fit, the heartthrob explained that being thrust into the spotlight as part of a well-known boyband was nothing short of an "eye-opening" experience:

"I was a very young 16-year-old, let's just put it that way. I'd had a couple of girlfriends at school, but it was all very innocent, then suddenly I had all these older girls, women, trying to make a man of me as such and making it quite public!"

"We were doing two club performances a night... we'd be walking through and you'd get the lads trying to bottle you, and the girls trying to grope you, then at the same time you'd get security trying to get you through even though you're not supposed to be in there even though you're about to perform onstage. As a 16 year old it was a whole world I hadn’t experienced, going to clubs and having people try and sleep with me, while others tried to beat me up. It was really eye opening."

He went onto add that bouncers at nightclubs were made aware of his age and knew not to let him in, which was a little awkward at times:

"By the time it got to my 18th birthday everyone wanted to go clubbing and I wasn’t interested. Besides, I’d been blacklisted from most of the clubs in London - my face was on every single door so bouncers knew not to let me in."

"I got taken by this promoter one night to a club and they told me I'd be fine, but I got thrown out very, very quickly. It was really embarrassing, they wanted to throw me out the front door, but I was a few drinks in, so told them: 'Guys you've got to be really smart here, I'll happily leave, but let me go through the back door, because if you're pictured throwing me out and I'm drunk, it will show you’ve let a 16-year-old in your club and you'll get shut down tomorrow, so let's do a deal here, you save my blushes I'll save yours.'"

Watch Sykes' latest video here: