Exclusive: Fellow Backstreet Boy 'Bummed' About Littrell's Swine Flu

By Steve Baltin Posted Oct 8th 2009 01:20PM

Talk about bad timing. The Backstreet Boys have crafted a new album, 'This is Us,' they are incredibly proud of, working with the likes of T-Pain, Ne-Yo, Max Martin, and more. And after months of preparation and rehearsals, the week of release date, with appearances booked on 'Ellen,' Jimmy Kimmel, and Conan O'Brien among others, BSB's Brian Littrell was diagnosed with Swine Flu.

"It's a part of everyday life that even artists/entertainers can get sick with the Swine Flu," Backstreet Boys Howie Dorough tells Popeater. "And it definitely affected our promo week here and we were actually really bummed."

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First things first though, how is Littrell doing? "He's been so sick he's been out of touch even with us," Dorough says. "I was actually on my way coming in from New Jersey when I found out the news and by the time I finally had a chance to reach out to him he had taken the medication and was out." But, things are looking up. "He's, I think, supposed to be coming back today from New York. He's definitely doing better."

Dorough tells Popeater Littrell was actually quarantined in his hotel room, with no one coming in to make up the room and room service being delivered outside the door. "This is a serious, no-joke thing," he says.

He's not kidding. Though Dorough, Nick Carter, and AJ McLean have been declared healthy they have experienced the reaction of people to Swine Flu. "We were trying to start off the promo week with an autograph signing of the album at the Hard Rock in New York and giving all the proceeds from the event to breast cancer," Dorough says. "And we had to cancel out of that unfortunately cause even though the three of us saw the doctor and got a clean bill saying we didn't have swine flu, the fact that we were around him they didn't want to have anybody affected with it from there."

They got the same response from the 'Ellen' show, but Dorough says they understand. "As I'm doing more and more research we're coming to find out that it's not as crazy of a disease as initially everybody thought it was. But it's still so unknown, it's still so new, and it's still so contagious in the first 48 hours and the effect it has on young kids and elderly people can sometimes be detrimental, so we totally understand. We definitely wouldn't want to afflict anybody with it or make anybody uncomfortable."

With Littrell recovering though the group is anxious to get back to work. "We're definitely trying to make up everything and anything that we can and to hopefully let people know that we have a new album that just came out this week and we're excited," he says.

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Thursday 08 October

By Sean

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By Stella

--"It's a part of everyday life that even artists/entertainers can get sick with the Swine Flu," Backstreet Boys Howie Dorough tells Popeater. "And it definitely affected our promo week here and we were actually really bummed."--
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Too bad he wasn't 'actually really bummed' about his friend being seriously ill.

By Leealice

I live in a small town in Texas where 1000s of people have the swine flu, mostly children. It is very mild and although many are missing school no one is not allowed to leave their home. It barely makes the news here because we are not celebrities

By nikki

Yeah you are right for the most part, although it can hit some people harder than others, but more people die each year from the "regular flu". You just hear about this one more because it has a fancy name "Swine Flu" or H1N1 (or as I like to refer to it the R2D2 flu)

Friday 09 October

By Matthew Steven

okay first of all Leealice I doubt that all 1000 people in your small town here in texas are all kids. That is more believable then freakin anything I have ever heard! I bet you over 50% of those people who have the H1N1 virus are adults. And I also bet you that more than 50% of those people have the regular flu not the H1N1 virus. Jeez

By Courtney

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The girls in the video are stupid. The flu did not come from swine in fact it has nothing to do with swine. That's why now it is mostly referred to as its proper name H1N1. It is so funny that people stopped eating pork just because of the swine flu. you get it from people not pigs. remember that.

By mich

No, actually it originally was started in the lab, not FROM people. Once it got started, it now is caught from other people. This *flu* was created in the lab.

By argusprada2

Thanks for the info mich, but if you look back at my original post you will see that I only said its origen was not in swine and that now you it is passed human to human not that it originated in humans. You have to agree with me in the fact that the swine flu does, in fact, have nothing to do with swine. That's all I was trying to say.

By bill

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By Ladymoonkac

Hey mich! You said a mouthful! This shameful flu was "re-created" in a lab by Big Pharma! Then they created yet ANOTHER unsafe vaccination for it! The original vaccine in the 80's caused paralysis; who KNOWS what side effects this UNTESTED vaccination has! SHAME ON THEM FOR BEING SO DAMN GREEDY!

By Gail

Wonder if this just an incorrect rumor, because if he was quaranteened, he would not have been able to pay for last night's Conan show. He looked fine and healthy on the show.

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