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August 19, 2007: Backstreet Boys Tour starts in Japan!

January 11 Tokyo: Tokyo Dome
January 15 and 16 Osaka : Osaka Castle Hall
January 17 Nagoya: Nippon Gaishi Hall

Source: BSB Squad
August 18, 2007: The Backstreet Boys filming their new music video, Venice Beach, Los Angeles, America - 16 Aug 2007
LOVE IS IN THE AIR FOR BACKSTREET BOYS Love was in the air on the set of the Backstreet Boys' new video in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, on Thursday (August 16). Their comeback single shoot coincided with the news that Howie Dorough has got engaged to his longtime girlfriend, real estate broker Leigh Boniello. The couple, both 33, have been dating since 2000 and plan to marry later this year. ....We're very, very excited,'' Dorough told People magazine. And Howie isn't the only loved up member of the band - AJ McLean spent every spare moment between takes smooching with his tattooed girlfriend. Always the bad boy of the band - he underwent treatment for alcohol and cocaine addictions in 2001 - AJ looked wilder than eve next to his clean-cut bandmates with his Mohican haircut and cigarettes. Nick Carter and Brian Littrell, accompanied by his young son Baylee, looked dapper in their v-neck sweaters and ties, but there was one man missing - former Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson. Kevin, whose wife Kristin gave birth to their first child last month, quit the group to spend more time with his family. The group's new single, Inconsolable, is out next month, and will be followed by a new album entitled Unbreakable in October. Source: BSB Squad.com

Howie Dorough and his longtime girlfriend, Leigh Boniello, are engaged, the couple tell PEOPLE exclusively.

They plan to marry later this year.

"She wasn't expecting it, and I was quite nervous – more nervous about proposing to her in front of 40 family and friends than about performing in front of 40,000 people onstage," Dorough says of the New Year's Eve proposal at Boniello's family home in New Jersey.

The couple, both 33, met in 2000, when Boniello, a film-exec-turned-real-estate-broker, was working as the Backstreet Boys' Webmaster.

They say they were "very careful" to keep their engagement private at first, but with the wedding right around the corner, felt it was finally time to share the news. "We're very, very excited," says Dorough.

The proposal to his "soulmate" was carefully planned in a matter of days. Dorough says he looked "at least 40 or 50 diamonds" before he prepared his "Will you marry me?" speech while he and an unsuspecting Boniello were on an annual benefit cruise. (The trip was to support the Dorough Lupus Foundation, founded in honor of his late sister.)

"And I asked her mother, father and grandmother for their permission," he adds.

"He decided to pull a practical joke on me in front of my whole family," Boniello says of the big day. "He acted like he forgot to give me one present for Christmas – it was in a large box."

Playing off an inside joke that Dorough was "dangling carrots" in front of Boniello whenever they talked about marriage during their 6-year relationship, she opened the box and found three large carrots inside.

"She was laughing and trying to tell everyone the joke and by the time she turned around I was down on one knee with the real carrot," says Dorough.

Make that more than three carats. Dorough, a native of Orlando, designed the engagement ring – one round, brilliant-cut diamond surrounded by two smaller round diamonds, all set in platinum – with a family friend at Plantation Jewelers in Winter Garden, Fla.

"It meant a lot for my whole family to hear it," she says. "The room was filled with love, more than I ever expected."

The couple is planning a wedding for 250 guests while the Backstreet Boys, currently promoting their new single "Inconsolable," prepare to release their sixth studio album on Oct. 30.

"We've invited all the Backstreet Boys, including Kevin [Richardson]," says Dorough, who has no hard feelings about Richardson's departure from the group last summer. "Actually, Kevin was one of the first people I told about our engagement."

And like Richardson – whose wife Kristin gave birth to son Mason in July – Dorough and Boniello say they can't wait to start a family.

"Hopefully I will be the next one to add to the [Backstreet Boy] family," says Dorough.
August 13, 2007: Evidently, the Backstreet Boys have changed the name of their album from End to Beginning to Unbreakable. It was confirmed by Brian and AJ in an interview. To hear the Howie and Nick interview, click here to download it.
August 9, 2007: Backstreet Boys album has now been officially titled End to Beginning, due in stores, as we all knew, on October 30, 2007. Excited? I know I am!! There are also two interviews that they have done. One on August 7th with Nick Carter at z100 Radio Station in New York, and one on August 8th with Ryan Seacrest. Both videos are posted below.

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July 31, 2007: Backstreetboys.com now has a countdown up of when the new website will be up and running! That alone is exciting! Backstreet Boys album is expected to hit stores October 30, and their new single "Inconsolable" to hit radio August 27. How exciting!!
July 25, 2007, 10:25 AM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
After an extended break and the loss of original member Kevin Richardson, the Backstreet Boys will return Oct. 30 with their next, as-yet-untitled studio album for Jive Records. The first single, the piano-heavy rock ballad "Inconsolable," will hit U.S. radio outlets Aug. 27.

Richardson, who exited in June 2006, was not replaced in Backstreet Boys, which also features Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough and AJ McLean. The group is celebrating its 10th anniversary on Jive this year.

The new album is the follow-up to 2005's "Never Gone," which debuted at No. 3 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 747,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Among the collaborators are producers Rob Weiss and Dan Muckula.

While taking time away from Backstreet Boys, Littrell found success in the Christian music world with the 2006 album "Welcome Home" (Reunion). The project reached No. 3 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart.

Source: Billboard.com OLD NEWS

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