THE troubled stepson who Hollywood star Pierce Brosnan told to "get busy living, or get busy dying" is to star in Celebrity Love Island.
Christopher Brosnan's famous stepfather - who adopted him in 1986 when his own father died and Brosnan married his mother, Cassandra Harris - very publicly disowned him.
He told Playboy Magazine last November: "Chris is still very lost. Shockingly so.
"I know where he is, but he's having a hard life. I can only have strong faith and believe he will recover.
"He has tested everybody in this family but none more so than himself. He knows how to get out. He doesn't want to."
He added: "It's painful because you shut down.
"You never completely cut them off, but I have cut Christopher off.
"I had to say, 'Go, get busy living, or get busy dying...'
"He has my prayers."
His comments came months after Christopher was arrested on suspicion of possessing heroin.
At the time, he said he had given him one last chance to sort his life out but only decided to finally give up on him when he found out Christopher just wouldn't kick his drug habit.
Since Harris died of cancer in 1991, Christopher has fought a string of problems.
As well as his June 2005 arrest, he was arrested the previous year on suspicion of possessing stolen goods after being accused of rifling through revellers bags in top London nightclub, Chinawhite.
It was where he had spent the evening two years previously before collapsing and slipping into a come at his north London flat during an overdose on the illegal dance drug GBH.
In 1996, part-time producer Chris was fined £1,000 for drink-driving in the US and he spent seven weeks in jail for the same offence in the UK the following year.
Brosnan is not the only "bad boy" on the show.
Shane Lynch - who has successfully fought his own problems with alcohol - is also appearing in what is the latest raft of TV moves for him.
A born-again Christian since around 2002, the 29-year-old ex-Boyzone singer has been steadily building up a new career on TV for himself since the band split.
Appearances include the celebrity sports show The Games, and playing arrogant businessman Eli Knox in Sky One's football drama Dream Team.
It's anybody's guess what Lynch's 25-year-old girlfriend Sheena White, a devout Christian, makes of him appearing on a show where viewers are encouraged play cupid and match contestants with each other.
Last year, George Best's son Calum Best grew very close to footballer David Beckham's former mistress, Rebecca Loos.
But Lynch, who admitted in 2004 to vowing not have sex with White until they get married, has made no secret of his feelings for the session singer.
Of their relationship and the prospect of marriage, Lynch said: "I want to get married again one day.
"It's something that Sheena and I are definitely working towards.
"I love her dearly and I would have married her when we first got together - I knew how I felt about her.
"But I guess I'm trying to be sensible. I'm in no rush."
Singer Kelle Bryan, for the same group Eternal his ex-wife Easther Bennett sang in, is also going on the show.
As are stunner Sophie Anderton, glamour girl Alicia Douvall, legendary ex-soccer star Paul Gascoigne's daughter Bianca and playboy model Colleen Shannon.
Socialite Lady Victoria Hervey, whose sister Isabella was on last year's show, is also a contestant.
The other male celebrities on the ITV1 show - which will be hosted from next Monday, July 10, by Ireland's Patrick Kielty and TV beauty Fearne Cotton - are dancer Brendan Cole, Leo Ihenancho for the band The Streets and Hollyoaks' Lee Otway.
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