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Since he's such a popular pop puppy, we put YOUR questions to a newly-solo Matt Willis...
Alice from Southend: Does being a solo artist feel strange after being in a band?
Matt: Yes it does. It's a good strange but I'm still getting used to it. I don't really know how to answer that. It's only been a while and this is one of my first TVs and I have to answer every question, but it's all a bit odd at the moment. Ask me that in three months!
Jimmy G: What's the best thing about being solo?
Matt: You get a bigger rider to yourself. I don't really ask for anything really. Well, Busted never did. We should have abused our position, shouldn't we?
James from Wales: What do you miss most about James and Charlie?
Matt: I miss having them around. I see James all the time – we are best mates so I see him all the time. I miss Charlie, man. He's a funny guy and he has got a weird sense of humour. But, you know, you miss your mates.
Alan: Do you think you and James will ever work together musically again?
Matt: I don't think me and James will work together again. But, I mean, never say never. But at the moment I don't think so. You know, I can't really see it happening, but never say never. One day maybe.
Nats: Have you ever had a really scary dream that's kept you up all night?
Matt: I had a dream that I was a real chav the other night. I was wearing a Nike tracksuit with my jogging bottoms tucked into my socks and a cap on my head. I looked like a really chavvy idiot. In fact, it was so horrible it woke me up! I had to check out my wardrobe quickly and go Woah!
Helen from Darlington: If McFly, Son of Dork and Fightstar were all trapped in a burning building, who would you heroically rescue first?
Matt: That's a very mean question. Hmmm, I'd say McFly because the other two are big enough and ugly enough to look after themselves!
Steve O: If you had a really nasty neighbour keeping you up, how would you get your revenge the next day? And if it was a really cute female neighbour, would it make any difference?
Matt: If I had a neighbour keeping me up all night I wouldn't really be surprised because I'm really noisy neighbour. I don't have any neighbours. I live in a house with no neighbours. Well not right next door and I moved there specifically because I keep getting complaints because I'm too noisy. I think I'm the noisy one. So if I did, I'd let 'em off. And if it was a cute girl, I'd let 'em off too!
Lisa: You were planning to release 'Hey Kid' until it got leaked on the internet. Is that why you didn't release it?
Matt: No, not at all. It did get leaked on the internet, but so did a lot of other songs. And also songs I'd written for other people. I did a lot of writing in the year and a half that I was out and wrote a lot of songs to be sent out to other people, you know, like girls and things! And obviously I sing the demo, so suddenly these things were on the internet as if they were my songs coming out. Some of them were really bad as well. There's a ballad out there on the internet somewhere. It's not my song – I hate it!
Amy: There's a rumour you're touring in November. Is it true?
Matt: There are rumours of a tour in November but I don't think it's true. I do want to tour then, and I think that's why there are rumours around, cos I said it! I think that's about the right time as the album will be out then. I'd like too, but got to wait to everyone knows the songs. So watch this space.
Jonzee: There are loads of hot chicks in your video. Does your girlfriend Emma get a bit jealous?
Matt: My girlfriend was on the shoot. She was watching me! It did make her a bit sick when they had to be all flirty with me. She had to leave the room cos she felt a bit ill. It's weird, man. I'm a good boy so it's OK.
Catherine: If you could go back in time and change one musical event in history, what would it be and why?
Matt: You know I never meant for 'Year 3000' to be a single. Charlie and I wrote that in twenty minutes for a B-side. It was never meant to be a single. Or even on the album, but it was, and everybody loved it. It was kindof the song that launched us, but I hated it. I used to be backstage on tour and it was the bloody encore song, so I used to be backstage and wait for it and wait for it. And you know that annoying 'du-du-diddle-idle'. Urgh! But the crowd loved it so we had to play it every time. Everywhere we went that song had to be played! Now I'm having much more fun.
Lucy: Help, I'm stuck studying A Level maths. Do you know anything about geometric sets?
Matt: No, I have no idea! I don't think I ever paid attention in maths once. Do you know what I just realised. I never did one bit of homework – I never handed anything in. I had a lot of detention and I had to do it then, because they watched me. So I can't help, sorry Lucy.
