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The “X Factor” alum, who like his former bandmates pursued a solo musical career after One Direction disbanded in 2015, was set to return to television as a celebrity mentor for the Netflix competition series “Building the Band” alongside “X Factor” judge Nicole Scherzinger, Destiny’s Child alum Kelly Rowland and host AJ McLean of the Backstreet Boys.

Bass recalled, "That's when we realized it was a fight. JC called his uncle who was a lawyer, sent him the contract, and he was like 'Whoa this is horrible.' He helped us find a little out in the contract which the Backstreet Boys did not have."

I grew up with Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears in my prime teen years.

Since production wrapped on the new Netflix music competition series where they’d met earlier this year, the Backstreet Boys veteran and One Direction star had talked almost every day on WhatsApp — at least until Payne’s sudden two-week silence early last month.

Mr Pender said if he passed on all the extra costs to customers, he would be charging £8 a pint in "two small backstreet pubs" - a move he said would not be viable.