I’m a 90s boyband legend with a very normal job now and I drive a battered old van – I can’t even afford my own home

DESPITE topping the charts successful the 90s - beingness these days for 1 erstwhile boyband prima could not beryllium further from the days of illustration success.

John Hendy, 53, roseate to fame arsenic a hunk successful boyband East 17 but present works arsenic a roofer successful a overmuch much 'normal' mode of life.

The erstwhile vocalist was portion of the set who stormed the charts successful the 90s alongside Brian Harvey, Tony Mortimer and Terry Coldwell.

But for John, helium has confessed successful a caller interrogation that helium overmuch prefers his existent mode of beingness successful his "battered" aged van than a manner filled with currency and posh supercars.

John had spoken retired astir the presumption helium is apt a millionaire owed to uncovering occurrence successful the set but helium amazingly lone earned £125 a week during his clip successful the group.

The band's ex-manager famously paid the boys that wage with it rising by an further £25 each 4 months.

Speaking to the Mail Online about the ups and downs of money successful the euphony manufacture and his existent fiscal situation, John said: "I don't ever regret thing similar I accidental we travel retired with thing but there's nary constituent reasoning astir that, conscionable get connected with life, you cognize what I mean?

"Life's excessively short. I don't fto it get to maine benignant of thing.

"I haven’t adjacent got a location and radical deliberation you're millionaires and that, and I'm thinking, I don't adjacent got an location retired of it.

"We should person each travel retired with a house, astatine least."

However, John admitted that contempt hanging retired with "rich friends", helium is contented with his enactment van and regularly discusses the highs and lows of having wealth with his pals.

He recalled: "When I crook up to a enactment and my affluent friends are coming successful their Porsche's and Range Rovers and I'm pulling up successful my roofing van and I’m similar 'oh mate, it makes maine consciousness sick coming to your parties'.

"And past they enactment it successful position to me. They are similar 'John, mate, it's money, it doesn't mean nothing, mate'.

"One person said to maine 'I'd alternatively springiness this each up and past conscionable spell retired for 1 week and acquisition what you've done', you cognize what I mean? Because what an acquisition that is.

"That's the lone mode I could look astatine it. Yeah it's people's dream, innit, we've had the dream, that's the mode I look astatine it.

"But similar I say, I'm blessed doing what I bash due to the fact that I'm astatine the apical of my game.

"I'm benignant of similar champion of the champion connected the extortion side. I bask it due to the fact that I cognize everything."