Noughties pop star announces comeback 20 years after smash hits and quitting fame after car accident

The songwriter shot to fame with Gotta Get Thru This back in 2001.

The number debut single and album shot him to superstardom, selling over four million copies worldwide.

Unfortunately he was not able to match the same success with his follow up, titled Second First Impression, in 2004.

That year he nearly died in a serious car accident while visiting his parents in New Zealan which left him with severe head and neck injuries because of the car rolling on him.

Seven years ago he appeared in the West End play The War Of The Worlds playing The Artilleryman alongside David Essex, Jimmy Nail, and Heidi Range.

He spoke about the play and moving to America during an interview on ITV's Lorraine.

He said in 2016: "I've been there (in America) eight years, and I enjoy not being depressed.

"It's never grey, it rains eight days of the year, I just go to the beach every day, and do acrobatic yoga on the beach, it's like doing yoga poses on each other. Lift each other in the air. I giggle all the time.

"I do it every Sunday, I do it all the time. The acro community is growing!

"I'm not really doing much for myself, I'm enjoying being a human-being, its so fantastic."

Reacting on his past pop fame, he added: "It was crazy. I was really young."

Since leaving the UK he has performed with Fred Again in New York, been a judge on The X Factor in New Zealand, and has been working on new music and writing for other artists.