February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
But surely, you can ask the guys from Men2B, who are certainly setting the world afire in, well . . . oh, yeah: one of them, Mark Henderson, is dating Samantha Mumba.
Well, the pop star industry might be a tough slog for the toothsome teens it attracts, but some have managed to swim to the other side and contemplate other careers. Yake pretty Tara Lee, who was, until recently, a member of Bellefire. The Stillorgan-born stunner, 20, has traded her pop career for a shot at catwalk stardom.
The brunette cutie says that, after four years in Louis Walsh’s most promising girl band, she was ready to move on to other things. But she has no regrets.
“It was the best experience of my life and I wouldn’t change any of it,” she told the Sunday World. “But I’m 20 years old and, really, I just want to have some fun.”
The move seems to have been a good one for Lee, who is now considered Ireland’s hottest new mannequin. And the remaining three-quarters of Bellefire — Cathy and Cara Newell and Kelly Kilfeather — recently signed what has been described as a a big bucks deal with East-West Records.