BOYZONE APPEARED ON Jonathan Ross last night, promoting their new album of Motown covers.

They performed Smokey Robinson’s classic Tracks Of My Tears, complete with dodgy dance moves.

But most shocking of all to delicate UK viewers was the sheer girth of Shane Lynch’s almighty beard.

So what does he look like? Well, there were a few suggestions.

1. Rasputin

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2. Brian Blessed

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3. A Persian cat

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4. ‘Some kind of Iranian boy band’

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(We didn’t have a picture of an Iranian boy band, so here are some of the Shah’s troops training before the revolution in 1971)

5. One of Ron Burgundy’s sidekicks

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6. Santa

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7. A beard of bees

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Well? Your thoughts?

Shane Lynch’s beard looks most like…

Let it be said here that we think Shane Lynch’s beard is magnificent.