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Arashi's Sho Sakurai Admits His Family Didn't Approve Of His Idol Career Before

During the Fuji TV talk show TokuDane! where Arashi's Sho Sakurai guested, the popular idol member admitted that his parents got mad when they found out that he will be entering Johnny's Entertainment and will be taking on an idol career. He said that he kept his application a secret from his parents.

Aside from his parents, his grandparents were also not convinced of the career he was pursuing and would frequently ask the 30-year-old idol when he will quit. Being discouraged since his family weren't that supportive anyway, there was some point where Sakurai also thought about quitting, "I was thinking that I'd probably quit Johnny's Jr. when I was about 17 or 18. Well, I liked what I was doing and was treating it as something like an extra-curricular club activity," which was mainly the reason why he continued on with it.

The time when his parents finally accepted his career was when they agreed to go to his solo concert when he was around 22 or 23 years old because even when Sakurai already became part of Arashi, his family weren't going to their concerts but that time, he casually invited them and asked, "I have a concert this weekend, can you come?" and their response was "Maybe we should". Sakurai commented, "I think that was the time they finally accepted me. They've been coming to our (Arashi) concerts ever since."

http://www.jpopasia.com/news/arashis...re::14097.html

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