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IT\u2019S been more than a decade since S CLUB 7 last visited Bizarre HQ, but yesterday they brought their party back for good. Three months after I revealed the Nineties pop favourites had secret plans to reunite, RACHEL STEVENS, TINA BARRETT, PAUL CATTERMOLE, JON LEE, BRADLEY McINTOSH, JO O\u2019MEARA and HANNAH SPEARRITT made it official. After announcing details of a UK arena tour next May, they sat down with me for their first interview in 12 years and revealed how they got back together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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IT\u2019S been more than a decade since S CLUB 7 last visited Bizarre HQ, but yesterday they brought their party back for good. Three months after I revealed the Nineties pop favourites had secret plans to reunite, RACHEL STEVENS, TINA BARRETT, PAUL CATTERMOLE, JON LEE, BRADLEY McINTOSH, JO O\u2019MEARA and HANNAH SPEARRITT made it official. After announcing details of a UK arena tour next May, they sat down with me for their first interview in 12 years and revealed how they got back together.
\nAmazingly, Tina said the comeback was sparked by the power of social media. She said: \u201cTwitter is our main reason for doing this. If it wasn\u2019t for it, this would never have happened because we wouldn\u2019t have realised how many people still wanted us and liked our music.\u201d But the reunion has been a long time in the making, with the first discussions taking place over prawn crackers at Tina\u2019s house in 2012. Jon explained: \u201cWe met up at Tina\u2019s and had a Chinese. She reached out to each one of us individually and said we should get together and talk about this. \u201cIt was the first time we all got together in the same room to really talk. There was a lot of love. We all wanted to do it really badly.\u201d Jo said: \u201cIt feels right. We never actually split.\u201d Rachel added: \u201cThere\u2019s definitely a natural chemistry between us.\u201d Paul went on: \u201cThat\u2019s the main reason the Big Reunion wouldn\u2019t have suited us, because we\u2019re not like other bands. \u201cThey wanted to focus on the negative aspect of every group. We don\u2019t have that.\u201d
\nThen they had to get music mogul SIMON FULLER \u2014 the brains behind the SPICE GIRLS and S Club \u2014 on board. Bradley said: \u201cHe was well excited. We couldn\u2019t do it without him.\u201d Tina added: \u201cIt was Simon\u2019s idea to do Children In Need. It was perfect.\u201d Their performance of a medley on the BBC1 charity extravaganza last Friday captured the nation\u2019s attention, with the band trending on Twitter and their greatest hits album storming up the chart. All the band members were petrified, especially Jo, who has had a rough few years since being caught up in the JADE GOODY\/SHILPA SHETTY Celebrity Big Brother race row in 2007. She said: \u201cIt was terrifying, I had never been so nervous in my whole life. “We used to all mime so to get up and do it completely stripped back, my voice was a little bit shaky. And then people were saying, \u2018Oh, Jo\u2019s lost it.\u2019
\n\u201cBut it was just the pressure of it \u2014 my voice was shaking. It felt like someone had just got a load of sand and thrown it down my throat. But we\u2019re back now and I\u2019ll redeem it.\u201d I was a huge fan of S Club in my teenage years and it was genuinely exciting to see them back together. Their energy is contagious and there\u2019s none of the negativity around their comeback like so many bands on The Big Reunion. The only awkwardness came when I asked Paul and Hannah about their romance. They were together during their time in the band but split in 2006. Now they\u2019re both single. Paul said: \u201cWe have known each other for 20 years. We were friends first.\u201d Hannah added: \u201cSo we\u2019ve kind of gone friends, lovers then friends.\u201d Never lovers again? There was an awkward silence before Hannah replied: \u201cThere is a chemistry between us all.\u201d Obviously there are lots of people out there claiming the S Club reunion marks another nail in the coffin of real music. But Paul said: \u201cWe came from an era where not everyone was an armchair critic so it\u2019s a more tense atmosphere. \u201cBut the Children in Need charity director said it was the best thing they\u2019d had in 15 years. So the negative stuff doesn\u2019t matter, really.\u201d I\u2019m fully on board for this party.
\n– Tickets for the Bring It All Back tour go on sale at 9am on Thursday.<\/p>\nPAUL wants the band to reunite with CATHY DENNIS \u2013 the genius songwriter behind S Club classics Reach and Never Had a Dream Come True. He said: \u201cNew music hasn\u2019t been discussed but I\u2019d hope we could work with people like that again. \u201cCathy would be vital. I think she\u2019d be up for it too. She\u2019s one of the best pop writers.\u201d One person who loves the group\u2019s old hits is RACHEL\u2019s four-year-old daughter. Rachel said: \u201cAmelie knows Bring It All Back. She came down to rehearsals and was dancing away. \u201cIt was very emotional but that\u2019s what kids would have done back in the day.\u201d JO\u2019s six-year-old son Lenny isn\u2019t quite as keen. She said: \u201cMy little one was impressed but straight after was like, \u2018I\u2019m going back to my game now\u2019.
\nS Club 7 tell their stories:
\nBradley: FOUR years after S Club split, Bradley joined another, less successful boyband \u2013 UPPER STREET \u2013 alongside DANE BOWERS. They flopped and split after just a few months. Bradley said: \u201cOne per cent was us singing in the studio and the rest was us sliding down the stairs on whiteboards.\u201d
\nJo : SHE found herself at the centre of a racism storm after a disastrous stint on Celebrity Big Brother with Bollywood star SHILPA SHETTY. Jo said: \u201cIt was the lowest point in my whole life. But not long after that I had a baby. I was busy being a mum. It put everything into perspective.\u201d
\nJon: IN 2010, Jon revealed he was gay for the first time in public. He said: \u201cI\u2019ve always been gay. I never didn\u2019t talk about my sexuality \u2013 it was just no one ever asked me. \u201cI was just so young at the time. So it was probably inappropriate to ask those questions.\u201d
\nRachel: SHE enjoyed a successful solo career post-S Club but nowadays, you\u2019ll find Rachel mentoring other budding artists as a coach on The Voice of Ireland. She said: \u201cI want to be honest and give the contestants as much advice as I can.\u201d
\nHannah: HANNAH has forged a successful acting career with a lead role in ITV show Primeval. Yet a shot of her in her knickers somehow managed to steal the show. She revealed: \u201cThere\u2019s a really funny clip on YouTube. They\u2019ve done a little montage of my bum to music.\u201d
\nTina: SINCE S Club, Tina has done everything, from launching a solo singing career to posing for Zoo magazine. But reality TV was just too \u201cscary\u201d for her. She told me: \u201cI was offered it but at that point I just wanted to see what I could do creatively.\u201d
\nPaul: HE quit S Club just over a year before the band split but said it was \u201cone of the biggest mistakes I\u2019ve ever made\u201d. Paul revealed: \u201cIf I\u2019d known S Club would only go on for a little longer, then I wouldn\u2019t have left. \u201cI\u2019ve been wanting the comeback for quite a while.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read the full interview here on SCM! IT\u2019S been more than a decade since S CLUB 7 last visited Bizarre HQ, but yesterday they brought their party back for good. Three months after I revealed the Nineties pop favourites had secret plans to reunite, RACHEL STEVENS, TINA BARRETT, PAUL CATTERMOLE, JON LEE, BRADLEY McINTOSH, JO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sclub7media.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sclub7media.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sclub7media.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sclub7media.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sclub7media.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sclub7media.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8750,"href":"https:\/\/www.sclub7media.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746\/revisions\/8750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sclub7media.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sclub7media.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sclub7media.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}