Jedward Genius

You have crazy fans. What kind of things do they do to see you?

Edward: At nighttime they put masks on of us and come speeding down the motorway and follow us to our hotel. They check into the same hotels and stuff.

John: What’s really cool is that, at the beginning, they were all fans of us but now they have become the best of friends with each other. They all share the same interests, they love me and Edward. We’re kind of making people come together.

You’ve performed hundreds of times now. Do you get critical of your own performances?

John: I think me and Edward never go: “Ohmygod, we were good!” I feel like we are critical of ourselves because, if we’re not, then you just stay on one level. I think you have to keep improving all the time. You’re never going to be perfect, so why not keep pushing yourself in the right direction?

Edward: We just want to keep working and putting positive vibes out there. The advice we always give to people is whatever you are doing, just to keep doing it.

John: No matter what, even if you’ve had no sleep, you just have to give it the best you can and keep going.

You’re style icons – do you think a lot about what you wear?

John: We still like to look okay, but we’re not obsessed with what we wear or anything like that. It’s so cool that people want to look like Jedward.

Edward: Big hair is cool. Touch it, it’s not crunchy, it’s springy. (First News touches Edwards hair and can confirm it is springy) There are loads of ways to do it and usually it takes about five seconds. You just get loads of stuff and put it in it. Usually it turns out okay. Occasionally it is disastrous. If that happens, we just put a hat on.

John: You can have different types of Jedward hair. Loads of girls want to touch our hair, and they scream when they touch it too. Big hair is cool. The Jonas Brothers have big hair, Justin Bieber has big hair. The Beatles had big hair.

Edward: Imagine if we did a movie.

Erm, okay. Is that in the plans?

John: Imagine us in a Disney movie!

Edward: We’d love to be in a Disney movie and go to all the awards shows and go up the red carpet and meet loads of famous people. Like Demi Lovato.

John: I’d like to do something like Camp Rock, but I’d like to do something serious too.

Edward: I’d like to have our own TV series too, that would be so cool. Like Friends, or something like that. One of those shows that you can watch over and over again.

Do you think you’ll ever get bored of fame?

Both: No!

John: We’ll never get bored because we don’t see ourselves as famous. We just take every day as it comes. What happened yesterday is history and everything that happens tomorrow is a mystery.

Do you ever get bored of each other?

Both: No!

Edward: That is such a weird question. We never get bored because we’ve been with each other since we were born.

John: And we were premature. We were really, really small and in incubators. Then, when we got bigger, we used to go outside and climb trees, ash trees, and have mud fights, play hide and sneak. We were always outside. We were never inside watching TV like lots of kids.

Edward: We were meant to be born in January but we were born in October.

What would you say to kids who want to be famous?

John: Aspire to be you and always think of the positive and keep things as simple as a pimple.

Edward: You need to go out and realise that just by being you and thinking on another level makes you cool in your own right. Don’t think you have to look this way or act this way just because someone in a magazine looks that way. Being you is enough.

John: You need to keep your own thing. You just need to realise that people who are being mean to you at school, it’s not because of you. It’s them. We didn’t really fit in at school either! Could you imagine if they found a new planet and we bought it? That would be so cool.

Edward: Planet Jedward isn’t really a planet, it’s a lifestyle choice. What rules shall we make?

John: I think everyone would be crazy. The crazier the better. It would just be random.

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