JLS' Aston 'told off for parties'

Aston says he's having the time of his life at the moment

Aston Merrygold from JLS has admitted that his mum confronted him about tabloid reports that he was out partying a lot.

The 21-year-old recently had some downtime from a heavy promotional schedule along with the rest of his band mates and explained that his mum was a bit shocked by what she read in the papers.

He said: "At the end of the day she obviously read too much into the papers. People were saying to her, 'Aston's doing this, this and this'.

"She doesn't regularly read it but when all the stuff was coming out I just said, 'Look, it's bound to happen, don't believe everything you read'.

"She's alright now but obviously it was a bit of a shock for her to see people writing that kind of stuff but it's fine."

'Best time'

Aston admitted he's a bit old to be told off and is still determined to enjoy himself.

"I'm a 21-year-old man so she can't really tell me off any more," he said.

JLS took part in the recent Live Lounge tour with Jo Whiley

"She can give her opinion but like I said to her, 'If you want to believe it, you can believe it' but at the end of the day I'm going to focus on what I'm doing and carry on because I'm having the best time of my life right now."

Aston, along with band mates JB, Marvin and Ortise are promoting second single Everybody in Love, the follow-up to number one debut Beat Again.

They have a busy time ahead with an album and UK tour starting in January, so plans for a US takeover will have to wait a while.

JB told Newsbeat: "We're concentrating on consolidating ourselves over here first. So it'll probably be a long time before we think about the States and going over there to promote.

"Obviously it's on our wish list, we'd love to go over there. It's not different to any other territory and we want our music to be worldwide, that's the main goal for us."