Boyzone have admitted that they went on tour much too soon after the death of band mate Stephen Gately.

The band performed together again just two years after the death of Gately in 2009 due to an undiagnosed heart condition and they now say that they regret their decision to do so.

Mikey Graham told Phillip Schofield and Hollu Wiloughby on This Morning: "It was too early for us to go out. I don't think we were emotionally stable enough to go out on that tour.

"We hadn't really gone through the grieving process enough. We hadn't received counselling or the stuff that we should have done for such a great loss.

"And I think that tour kind of brought an awful lot of that out in each one of us. We missed him so much... it was too early."

Keith Duffy added: "The [timing] feels better now. The first time out was always going to be difficult.

"Getting the timing of that right was always going to be difficult, so we got that tough part out of the way and our more recent tour was fantastic - we still talk about Steo on tour."