Long before Simon Cowell put One Direction together on The X Factor UK, there was O-Town: the five-person boy band formed by the late Lou Pearlman on Making the Band. The group has been touring as a quartet in recent years, with Dan Miller, Erik-Michael Estrada, Jacob Underwood and Trevor Penick leaning into the early 2000s nostalgia sweeping the world. Fifth member Ashley Parker Angel, however, left O-Town in 2003 and never returned - but where has he been? On October 1, Angel, now 44, explained why he left the music world in a lengthy Instagram post shared with his followers.