Duncan James can finally release a huge sigh of relief now that fellow band mate from Blue Antony Costa has given him his blessing since his confession to a Sunday newspaper that he is bisexual...

The squashed nosed one with the ever expanding face from Blue has given his full support to James's confession that he's been in "loving relationships" with both men and women.

And Costa claims that James will be so much happier now that he's spoken out publicly about his sexuality, mainly because people had almost forgotten who he was and had almost blocked out the existence of Blue from their consciousness.

Costa said:

Duncan is my mate, regardless of who he is. I've known him for 12 years of my life and I've always got his back.

(As long as he doesn't try any funny stuff, etc).

He added:

Of course I knew about it and now it's out he can just be himself. It's his life and of course I still care about him.

Simon Webbe, another member of Blue and the UK pioneer of hip hop (or something), also said it was recently no big deal.

Phew. We wouldn't want anything to come between them and the Blue comeback (apart from reality).

Here they are, having a little flirt to show there's no hard feelings (not of that sort anyway)...