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^tegoshi’s profile^

Name : 手越祐也 / てごしゆや /TEGOSHI YUYA

Nicknames : Tegochan (school nickname), Yuya, Tegoshi-kun (jrs.),
Tessi (given by TOKIO’s Nagase Tomoya), Tegorin (Koyama)
Tegonyan (Ryo), Tegochin (Yamapi), Goshi (Kusano)

Birthday : 1987 November 11

Hometown : Kanagawa

Family: father and mother, dog – “Teeny” (papillion)

Height : 167 cm

Weight : 53 kg

Foot size : 25.5 cm

Hand : right for writing, left for eating

School : Horikoshi Gakuen (high school), Waseda Daigaku (University– studying Information Science)

Specialty : singing, soccer

Entered jrs : 2002 December 1

Joined Johnny’s Jrs because he wanted to be like SMAP, so he
sent his application to the jimusho

Respected senpai: Kimura Takuya (because he is sugoi), Yamashita Tomohisa

Favorite direction : East

Favorite smell : sweet smell

Type of girl : kind, cute with a small face and large eyes. “around 140 cm is cutest”

Brief Intro: After being a Johnny’s Jr for a mere ten months, he was selected to be put into Johnny’s new group, NEWS, on September 15, 2003. None of the members but Massu knew who Tegoshi was at the time, and in the early stages of NEWS’s formation, many people thought that Tegoshi neither belonged nor deserved to be in NEWS.

However, his career and popularity took a huge turn in late 2004, when he was cast as the lead for the movie Shissou, becoming the first NEWS member to act in a movie. Since then, his acting experience has continued to grow with a series of mini-dramas and his first full drama, GACHIBAKA!, which he acted in with Massu.

Tegoshi’s personality: He is very optimistic, always with a smile on his face. He is often treated as if he is the baby of NEWS, when really he is only the second youngest member (Kusano being the youngest). When NEWS guested on Domoto Kyodai (KinKi Kids’s show) shortly after their debut, Tsuyoshi made up the “Tegoshi desu” pose as a “present” to Tegoshi. The explaination for this comes from a breakdown of Tegoshi’s name: “te”, meaning hand, and “goshi”, meaning surpassing. Hence the pose that Tegoshi often uses and that we all know well: a hand near/in front of the face pose.Tegoshi loves music. He especially loves to sing and go to karaoke with Massu. He is very proud of his voice (with good reason), and has even mentioned before that he and Massu drink honey before shows to keep their voices in tip-top condition.

^Tegoshi’s relationships wif NEWS members..^

MASUDA TAKAHISA: Massu and Tegoshi have been together since Tegoshi was still a jr (a year before NEWS’s debut), and Massu was probably one of the only members who had actually heard of Tegoshi before the formation of the group. The two frequently go to karaoke together. Even though all the other members like to say that Massu was not funny and always stopped the conversation, Tegoshi always laughs at what Massu says. It was said in an interview (mid-2004) by some of the other members that Massu understands Tegoshi the most. Although the chemistry between all the members has grown since then, Massu is probably still the one who knows him best.

YAMASHITA TOMOHISA: YamaPi and Tegoshi have a very cute kohai/senpai (junior/senior) relationship. Tegoshi really has a lot of admiration for Yamapi, and he has mentioned it in varies interviews and magazine articles. In Duet 12/04 he said that “Yamashita is like a god that I can talk to” and that P-chan bought him sunglasses that he always uses in his private time. ♥ (Once in a talk for a magazine, Shige told him to critique Yamapi’s singing and Tegoshi’s reaction was literally, “Criticize Yamapi!?” as if it was unheard of.

NISHIKIDO RYO: Ryo is always giving Tegoshi special treatment. Whereas he likes to tease all the other NEWS members, when it comes to Tegoshi he is always saying things like “Tegoshi is so cute!” and “I really like Tegoshi!” According to Koyama on NEWS no Partytime (the NEWS radio show hosted by Koyama), Ryo kept saying “Tegoshi, I love you, I love you” during the NEWSnowCONCERTs. (Note: he used the phrase “aishiteru”, which the Japanese almost never say unless in movies or song lyrics.) Koyama even said to Ryo, “You really want Tegoshi to be your girlfriend, don’t you?” Ryo and Tegoshi have pet names for each other: “Ryo-tan” and “Tegonyan”, which they call each other when they are high tension.

UCHI HIROKI: Uchi said in NEWS NIPPON 0304 that he had no idea who Tegoshi was when NEWS was formed and was thinking things like “why do I have to take pictures with this kid?”

KOYAMA KEIICHIRO: Since Tegoshi is the newest to Johnny’s out of all the members, Koyama looks out for him and corrects his mistakes, like the “big brother” type. According to Koyama’s J-web, Tegoshi is always following him around, knocking on his door, or waking him up from a nap, wanting to know what Koyama is doing and if he would like to play. Koyama has said that sometimes Tegoshi is so sticky to him that he becomes irritated, but he can never stay long at Tegoshi for long with a smile like his. Koyama’s nickname for Tegoshi is “Tegorin” (which his mother and Massu’s mother also like to call him).

KATO SHIGEAKI: Since Tegoshi likes Shige’s style, he will ask him to go shopping together. Shige says that he likes cute Tegoshi, and mentioned in the last broadcast of NEWS no Partytime (before it turned into K-chan NEWS) that if he could become another member of NEWS, he would be Tegoshi. Shige and Tegoshi have currently composed two songs together, “Over” and “gomibako”. For these songs, Shige writes the music and plays the guitar while Tegoshi writes the lyrics and sings.

KUSANO HIRONORI: Kusano and Tegoshi are the two youngest in NEWS. They both have a lot of… energy. ♥ When they are together, both of their tension raises incredibly because they don’t want to lose to the other in who can be the most high. Recently, Tegoshi always called Kusano by the nickname “Notti”.

heard tat uchi is cuming back alrdy..
but isnt it kinda late to cum back only now?