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Callum is in the Zone as he meets popstar!

SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Callum Thomson was the envy of his school pals last Thursday or the girls at least!

For the Stranraer youngster, a pupil at the town's Rephad Primary School, went backstage at Glasgow's SECC and met Irish heart-throb Ronan Keating before his sell-out concert.

But although the former Boyzone frontman hit the top of the British charts recently with his solo hit "If Tomorrow Never Comes", Callum, of Fairhurst Road, was not in the slightest bit overawed according to his step-mum Michelle unlike herself!

"Callum was very calm, I do not think he really realised what was going on"

Michelle told the "Free Press".

"He probably thought that it was perfectly normal and anybody could just wander round and visit Ronan in his changing room!"

"But Ronan was really nice, he went out of his way to speak to us and gave us signed programmes. I was surprised at how small he is though"

"My sister Nicola loves Ronan and she went completely berserk and to be honest so did I but Callum was very calm".