{"id":2123669,"date":"2025-10-29T23:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2123669"},"modified":"2025-10-29T23:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:15:14","slug":"katherine-jenkins-stuns-at-westlife-london-show-as-band-pay-emotional-tribute-to-absent-mark-feehily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/katherine-jenkins-stuns-at-westlife-london-show-as-band-pay-emotional-tribute-to-absent-mark-feehily\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Jenkins stuns at Westlife London show as band pay emotional tribute to absent Mark Feehily"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Westlife<\/a> celebrated their 25th anniversary in style at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall<\/a> with a surprise appearance from Katherine Jenkins<\/a> \u2014 as Niall Horan was spotted in the crowd, singing along to the band\u2019s biggest hits.<\/p>\n

The Welsh soprano, 44, walked out onto the stage during the final moments of the sold-out concert, performing a stirring duet of You Raise Me Up alongside Shane Filan<\/a>, Kian Egan and Nicky Byrne.<\/p>\n

The performance saw the audience rise to their feet in applause as Jenkins hit the song\u2019s iconic high note.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the One Direction star, 32, was among the celebrity guests in attendance alongside his long-time partner Amelia Woolley.<\/p>\n

The concert marked second of two sold-out Royal Albert Hall performances<\/a> celebrating Westlife\u2019s 25 years in music.<\/p>\n

The shows also featured a surprise guest appearance from The Greatest Showman singer Loren Allred, who performed Flying Without Wings in tribute to Feehily, who has been unable to tour due to health issues.<\/p>\n

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The band performing during their second sold-out night at the Royal Albert Hall (Yui Mok\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n

Paying tribute to their bandmate, Filan told the crowd: \u201cI want to take a minute to talk about Mark, who unfortunately is not with us tonight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good news is he’s on the new music, we had our new song [Chariot] come out last week and new songs coming and he sounded better than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to reassure fans: \u201cHe\u2019s very much still part of our band, we love him, we miss him and we can\u2019t wait to have him back on this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

The audience was packed with famous faces including Sam Ryder, Cian Ducrot, Scott Mills, Big Zuu, Michael Flatley and Sinitta, all joining fans in singing along to the band\u2019s biggest hits.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the milestone gig and what performing at the Royal Albert Hall meant to them, Byrne shared: \u201cThree years ago I think it was when we first discussed the Royal Albert Hall, we\u2019ve only ever been here once before and we performed You Raise Me Up at a charity event many, many years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact 20 years ago would you believe? And we decided to do a venue like this, obviously takes a lot of preparation that\u2019s why we have an amazing band and an amazing orchestra but when you think about this venue and think about the people who stood on this stage, Kings and Queens to The Beatles to The Rolling Stones, the Eurovision Song Contest in 1968 with Cliff Richards and Congratulations, right down to Frank Sinatra and then you have Westlife.<\/p>\n

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Jenkins on stage with the Irish group (Yui Mok\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of mind-blowing to be honest with you, it\u2019s incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Egan added: \u201cIt amazing to play such an amazing venue like here, what a night to do it on, celebrating 25 years of Westlife\u201d.<\/p>\n

During the milestone gig, the trio performed their new single Chariot \u2014 co-written by Ed Sheeran<\/a>, which features on their forthcoming album 25 \u2013 The Ultimate Collection, out 13 February 2026.<\/p>\n

The event was filmed for Westlife 25 Live at the Royal Albert Hall, which will be screened in more than 400 UK cinemas from 29 November.<\/p>\n

Fans will soon have another chance to see Westlife live, with tickets for Westlife 25: The Anniversary World Tour going on sale this Friday, October 31.<\/p>\n

The milestone tour kicks off in Dublin on 15 September 2026, where the band will play an incredible 13-night residency before heading across Europe.<\/p>\n

UK fans will also get their moment, with dates in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Sheffield, London, Brighton, Bournemouth, Birmingham, Cardiff and Manchester \u2014 including a major show at London\u2019s O2 Arena on 9 October \u2014 before the tour wraps up in Zurich on 26 November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Westlife celebrated their 25th anniversary in style at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall with a surprise appearance from Katherine Jenkins \u2014 as Niall Horan was spotted in the crowd, singing along to the band\u2019s biggest hits. The Welsh soprano, 44, walked out onto the stage during the final moments of the sold-out concert, performing a stirring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2123670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[403305,403302,399756,25741,360303,392827,349541,403304,334303,403303],"class_list":["post-2123669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-amelia-woolley","tag-katherine-jenkins","tag-kian-egan","tag-london","tag-niall-horan","tag-nicky-byrne","tag-royal-albert-hall","tag-shane-filan","tag-surprise-appearance","tag-westlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Katherine-Jenkins-stuns-at-Westlife-London-show-as-band-pay.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123671,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123669\/revisions\/2123671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}