EXILE's new vocalist used to be part of Tenimyu's cast

EXILE's newly selected vocalist TAKAHIRO (real name Tazaki Takahiro) won the public audition on 22 Sep among 10,000 hopefuls. However, it is little known that Tazaki was actually not a freshie to showbiz as claimed even though his official occupation was listed as a freelancer.

In actual fact, Tazaki was part of the cast for Tenipuri's musical where he was due to play the role of Kaidou Kaoru for the "Tennis no Oujisama Advancement Match Rokkaku feat. Hyotei Gakuen" during 3rd to 27 Aug. Despite the fact that the production crew had been waiting for him to join in the rehearsals, it was announced on 25 July that Tazaki had quit from this musical with the reason cited as illness.

The surprising thing was that he then took part in the EXILE vocalist audition from 30 July which goes to show that he wasn't unwell to the extent of being unable to sing. As such, this is causing a stir because of the fact that Tazaki wasn't honest about his background and the unconvincing reason given for quitting from Tenimyu at the last minute.