Shane was born in Sligo S.Ireland in 1979 he was the youngest of seven children.
Suprisingly enough Shane was terrified of horses until he got up on one and from then on it was a major hobby of hisand went on to win trophies for his ability.
Shane looks at his rise to fame by saying "If it wasnt us it would be 5 other guys but we were lucky enough for it to be us!"
Shane and Gillian are having a house built for them to live together in.
Shane and his bride openly posed for photographs as did their celebrity pals, everyone was in great form meeting with the dedicated Westlife fans who made the trip to the wet Mayo village.
Shane's car is a silver BMW 3 series, which he bought when RCA paid the band for their record deal.
Shane was so impressed he decided on the spot that it would make the perfect setting of him to wed childhood sweetheart Gillian.
But Shane's illness means the remaining members of the band have had to split his vocal duties between them-and re-record their new single "Miss you nights" for all their planned appearences on tv in the next few weeks.
Shane’s stables are his passion and he spends a fortune keeping his beloved horses feed, watered and exercised.
Westlife member ShaneFilan announced today the birth of his first child, a babygirl, with wife Gillian.
Shane married his childhood sweetheart, Gillian Walsh, on Sunday, December 28, 2003 at Ballintubber Abbey.
Shane Steven Filan, born on July 5, 1979, is one of the four (formerly five) original Westlife members, along with other current members Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan and Mark Feehily.
The boys of Westlife will be having a busy year in 2003 — not only is the hunky fivesome's Nicky Byrne planning to wed, but now his bandmate ShaneFilan has announced he's tying the knot as well.
Shane revealed to the News Of The World that he proposed to his girlfriend Gillian Walsh two weeks ago while on holiday in Dubai.
After the pop singer got on one knee and asked "Will you marry me?", his business school graduate girlfriend couldn't contain her excitement.
That freshness can be heard all over ‘Face To Face.’ The band have never sounded in better voice and they’ve rarely had a better choice of material on which to show it.
“We know we have to raise the bar each time we make an album and be bigger and better,” acknowledges Shane, who recently became a father for the first time.
After seven years together, their seventh album finds them at the top of their game, and it’s a big game they play in, with six multi-platinum albums in the UK alone.
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The biggest names in music, including Mary J. Blige, Katharine McPhee, John Legend and more perform for the kids to benefit the JCPenney Afterschool Fund.
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