February 16, 2011
By Staff Reporter
Before he was a Hollywood star, before he was even a local TV star, Colin was a model with the Irish agency Assets. As a young swain about town, he made the rounds of the hot clubs like The Kitchen and POD. But, eventually, his tastes changed, and he developed a serious addiction to country line dancing. Yes, really.
Colin became a regular at Break for the Border, where he was sort of the John Travolta of the dance floor. He was so good, in fact, that he used to teach patrons how to do the kick-turn-stomp-stomp of the “Achy Breaky.”
A friend recalls Colin’s love of the dance.
“He was always first up,” he told the Sunday World. “He was 18 at the time and line dancing was the craze.”
The actor eventually tired of being a hoe-down honey.
“I did it until I couldn’t live with myself,” he said.
“I looked at myself in the mirror and I had a $%#^& choker on and a Stetson,” he sputtered. “I looked like the Village People’s idea of what a cowboy is.”
This little epiphany brought Colin to his senses.
“I was like, ‘I can’t %^$#& do this anymore,” he said.