Preston: "I am ready to be a popstar"

Preston has claimed that he is ready to "be a popstar" again.

The former Ordinary Boys singer, who quit the ska-pop group in January 2008, has been working on a solo album and releases new single 'Dressed To Kill' on August 23.

"I am ready to be a popstar," he said. "I want to be a popstar, and I'm going to do that on my own terms!"

Describing the process of making his record, he said: "I wanted to go into the studio like a mad professor, trying everything, always experimenting.

"I guess that could be seen as being really self-indulgent, but I'd never been able to do [it] before because of the confines of being in a band."

The 27-year-old, who was previously married to reality star Chantelle Houghton, admitted that he feels a greater sense of creativity as a solo artist.

"Sometimes the band were worried about doing something that would tread on the fans' toes, but I think it's actually nice to tread on the fans' toes now and again because it wakes them up," he said.

"It gives them a reminder of what it they saw in you in the first place, why you are different to everything else that's out there."

Preston releases debut solo album Whatever Forever later this year.