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00:00a decade ago pop bands were splashed across the charts and bedroom walls of a generation
00:07we have arrived but as fans grew up the bands split up and for many the dream became a nightmare
00:14I guess I was a ticking bomb and the bomb exploded nothing felt complete I think I
00:20just went on a downward spiral now six of those biggest groups are brushing up their
00:26dance moves and warming up their vocal chords for an epic one-off reunion gig
00:56previously on the big reunion it was Beatles pandemonium number one single and number one
01:12album things had literally gone overnight pops golden boys and girls conquered the charts but
01:17behind the scenes there were tears I just remember it being heartbreaking I just wanted someone to say
01:22like what's wrong and no one ever did tantrums he slammed me into this glass door I didn't like her
01:28ah and tales of excess I was just like a walking hormone we caned it that shit gets addictive the
01:38honey's took a rocky ride down memory lane when you left you didn't say anything and after Jay
01:47wanted nothing more to do with the band five vowed to keep on moving starting a manhunt for a new
01:53member I think we're looking for someone who's gonna look like Jamie act like Jay we're just looking
02:00for a fifth member not a massive fan of the idea of getting somebody else I'm not
02:07five bad boys with the power to rock you blowing your mind so you gotta get into five what you waiting
02:13for if you want to three three two one let's do it
02:17five years three number ones 20 million records and eight tons of sportswear at their height five were
02:26one of the biggest fans on the planet but in 2001 they shocked the world we have actually finished
02:32now as of today five or no more now five are about to hook up for the first time in six years to keep
02:47the peace they're meeting on neutral ground at manager Chris's house as far as being in a room
02:51together this would be the first time so it's it's it's it's quite monumental really there's always
02:58fears you know is it going to work he's not going to work it's a dynamic still going to be there hello
03:02mate you're on the first second third you're going to see you all right sparkly-eyed Richie has flown in
03:07from Australia and has mixed feelings about seeing the boys like excitement and nervous are very similar
03:15emotions and it's very similar feelings and I can't really tell you which one I am
03:27shitting myself absolutely shitting it really I've gone I've gone funny in the ad it's it's all playing
03:32tricks on me my biggest fear of going in there that it just feels completely wrong and I want to go home
03:40this is where the journey really begins anxious but just a little bit interested in seeing what
03:51why everyone's been up to and what they're looking like now I hope I don't say nothing too rude you
03:55know I'm saying oh shit you look terrible how long has you seen Mitchell we had a coffee in in London I
04:20don't understand you mate is that before you was Australian yeah we had a coffee in London I need
04:26a translator I don't know what you're saying do I sound Aussie then come to you listen you know I
04:30you sound like an Australian Brummie you sound like an Essex a Brumelian think you speak in
04:37South African into four years after the split Richie escapes to the other side of the world to start afresh
04:50it's just really nice to sort of melding and just be the normal member of the public and not have
04:56that kind of constant recognition and stuff you know it's liberating but there were darker reasons
05:02for Richie's exodus five sudden split flung the former heartthrob into an existential black hole I
05:08just kept losing it more and more of what I wanted to do I was smoking a lot of weed and I was drinking
05:17every day I basically recluse people who'd recognize me in supermarkets and stuff like oh
05:23you know you from five and la la la what are you doing now I just remember every time they'd asked
05:29me that question another little part of me inside would die actually you know the little voice in
05:34my head was like you haven't got a clue I felt like I was free-falling and all of a sudden I wedged
05:42myself between two cliffs I was like right okay no more I'm not falling down anymore moving to
05:51Oz saved him from a post-pop meltdown and Richie started to get his life back on track I opened
05:57gorilla restaurant and bar put a lot of blood sweat and tears into it and yeah got it open and got it
06:03across the line but that's not all he'll be leaving behind my other half is called Charlotte she's she's
06:13fantastic absolutely love it to pieces I think you know we've had long conversations about it and I
06:21know he's doing what he needs to do and I'm just gonna do whatever I need to do to get to get through
06:26the time so how long do you reckon you'll be over there for I don't know it's just one of those ones
06:34huh going back into it it's always been so far away and I've been the other side of the world so
06:41yeah a little bit nervous but also like super excited what I'd like to know is why do you want
06:47to do it why do I want to do it yeah what does this mean to you why do you want to do it do you know
06:53what actually for me one of the big things is walking out on stage in front of thousands of
06:59people yeah is really fun do you miss it I don't miss being in a band and I don't miss being famous
07:05but I did really enjoy walking out and going yeah you know when your ears remember that thing when
07:11they'd scream and your ears would go you know do that again just one more time so you want to
07:18experience that again you'd like to experience that again yeah one last time one less crack for
07:23me it never felt right the way we split yeah what's abs feeling I don't even remember anything I really don't
07:32get off my parsley man always the party boy of the group abs has swapped his rock and roll antics for
07:44the quiet life in rural Lincolnshire with his girlfriend Vicky this the view I wake up to every
07:50day like every morning I wake up sometimes I'm in my pants and I kind of hold this position I'm like
07:57this who wouldn't want this right here just face I love my dogs right not in my life they bring me so
08:05much joy I've got two horses as well and at the moment I had ten chickens I've got four left so
08:13that's my world right now and I've got a beautiful girlfriend that that keeps me balanced she saved my
08:19life through my eyes because I was on quite a a road to self-destruction it's kind of my little
08:27den that I come come and hang out and make a bit of music and reflect over the years and I know it's
08:35quite strange it's quite strange to look back and reflect on it but um I don't know I just I see like
08:41a little boy man just a little boy just clean shaved and innocent but apart from that when it's
08:49reminiscing it's good times there after the band split up I had a solo career for a little bit
08:54and then I went for about five years just being this boy out of a band that's living life and he's
09:07got money and there we go we're spending it I was in this lifestyle of champagne and cars and fancy
09:12clubs and restaurants and being mr. thinks he knows it all because I had this idea that I'm all right
09:19I'll always have money and was partying for about five years on and off and then I I basically went
09:26bankrupt with no cash and a solo career hurtling towards the dumper abs met an agent who promised
09:35to put his career and financial troubles back on track I had trusted him and I he felt like he was
09:40a brother to me you know somebody like in the darkness when I've got no family and no one else
09:44around I sold my house was a quarter of a million that was my profit that I had left this so-called
09:49friend was gonna hook me up with an account and a house to live in again and get me all sorted and on
09:54that track three months later he just kind of disappeared like he wouldn't answer my calls he's got
10:01250,000 of mine and he's not answering my calls every day for like a year living in hope that this
10:07guy is gonna go abs I've got your money rara here's your account here's the money back wasn't just the
10:14money it was the betrayal yeah money her hello yeah it was like what now what the hell am I gonna do
10:20he's taking everything I own I've got nothing literally nothing I'm a tramp desperate despondent
10:29and down and out abs took matters into his own hands one day I woke up and I went after him and
10:35um cut a long story short I got arrested and I'm sitting in this shitty cell man with toilet and like
10:42a little foam mattress and I'm sitting there thinking where's the justice in this man where's
10:47the justice coming up life after five gets even darker for abs weed hanging out my mouth and cocaine
10:55all over it was like there was a demon there was something dark around you yeah that was what my
11:00life was worth how you're gonna go out and when the lads are reunited things get explosive why did
11:06you chuck me down sit because I lost the plot what's your problem shut up you're walking around like
11:13you've got some halo and you're like I was angelic me no the lads from five have come together for the
11:24first time in six years after the brutal breakup in 2001 five all fell on hard times but abs hit rock
11:32bottom hardest of all bankrupt depressed and betrayed by his agent abs had stopped loving the wildlife and
11:41ended up living with it I was quite stubborn I didn't ask anybody for anything I lived upstairs
11:47in a bakery in my cousin's bakery for about a month or two with rats and I'm thinking this is getting a
11:51bit too close the rats are getting too friendly you know I'm waking up in the morning and there's a rat
11:56looking at me like go get me some of that cake that's downstairs it's just a little bit like this
12:00this isn't right broken abs turned to another stranger to save him it proved to be a very dangerous
12:06liaison while I was partying I met this wealthy woman she basically took me under her wing she
12:12gave me a place to stay in st. John's Wood in this fucking mansion I had maids I was running around with
12:18royalty and celebrities were coming back to the house it was party central we was partying for
12:24three four days straight I'd wake up in the morning and my breakfast would be every drug and every drink
12:30like lemon sorbet with vodka like as a as a breakfast weed hanging out of my mouth cocaine made me just
12:38think like this isn't right this isn't right this dude offered me a bendy to spend a night with him
12:44remember I told you lower in the tone there and I did have a second of like oh man bendy gg and I smelt
12:51the lever for one second I smelt the lever and I visualized it and I was like man he would want to
12:56annihilate me so lower in the tone again being honest that's where I was at in my life I'll be
13:02finding 80 odd grand diamond earrings show pod watches I had 25 to choose from with diamonds that
13:07rolled around the face you couldn't even tell what the time was you know I'm saying it was pathetic
13:11it's a stupid lifestyle made me just think like this isn't right this isn't right you're basically a
13:18pet you're a pet wasn't my life wasn't or wasn't allowed to to be me to be someone else and
13:26that person was on his way out easily abs was thrown a lifeline when he met his girlfriend Vicky
13:38but he was still hell-bent on self-destruction I felt like I had nothing to lose I'd done it all
13:46had money spent it been there done it what else is there what else is there I just felt I was ready
13:52today it was a series of events it was that yeah there was that slowly just took me lower and lower
14:00and I mean it was just before I met you really I was on my way down I guess it was like there was a
14:06bit of a like a demon there's something dark around you what I'm saying it was literally like Jekyll and
14:13Hyde I was at a gig and smashed this bottle of red wine and it went everywhere and I saw blood I didn't
14:19see wine I saw blood and and I just saw a sharp piece and I remember just slicing myself like that
14:25just cutting myself quickly man we're really really fighting with yourself that I was the worst it was
14:31like trying to get out of this skin I was thinking that was a good way to to make a front page if that
14:40was what my life was worth how you're gonna go out and looking back I don't see that like me and I'll see
14:45that that's like that's who I am anymore and it looks but I look back on that person I want to give
14:49him a hug you know I'm saying it's been a long and winding road to recovery and abs now lives on a
15:03farm away from the temptations of the city the biggest bonus out of everything is I found this place this
15:11person in me that I'll actually like right here's a bit of tobacco that I grow this I think is some
15:18lavender right there we've got going I started off doing gardening in like a nice pair of white jeans
15:23and looking all spick and span but these days you kind of just go with the flow because you're gonna
15:28get pretty dirty but I think I'm quite natural I'll be if you look if I just pull out one of these
15:33carrots for you I've been practicing growing curly carrots yeah see how look check out these curly
15:39carrots they see that that's a curly carrot so abs could be potentially moving into the farming world
15:45I feel like it's unfinished business man still like you know I'm saying really like I didn't want to
15:57split up the first time we split up my I was like no I remember rich coming up to me on the rooftop
16:01somewhere and it was he said to me like listen after this we're calling it a day you call with
16:07it and I was like no I'm not abs wanted to keep the rock and roll dream alive but starts couldn't
16:15wait to get out broke up on the 27th September 2001 and I got married on the 28th September 2001 the
16:24day after and it was like shutting a book on one life and starting a book on another so what I've been
16:37up to for the last 11 years would be being a family man I've got an 11 year old boy and I've got a six
16:46job son at the time Scott was happy to jack in fame fortune and quivering fans for a life of
17:00domestic bliss but it was still a battle to move on from five I just found it hard to deal with not
17:05being in the band I went to some counseling for anger management so you know sometimes it's a little
17:12bulb goes off in my head and I get very very angry about anything I wouldn't call it a full nervous
17:18breakdown that I had but to be that famous to doing nothing he's a very very hard road I'm very lucky
17:26and had I not have had family support yeah I reckon I could have crumbled you love watching dad don't
17:32you yeah shouldn't have quit we should have just said can we have some time off to sort our heads out
17:38wish we'd done that that's that's the only regret I've been carrying the torch for five
17:43I've been trying to get this band back together for years and years and years
17:4711 years after the split and Scott has finally got his reunion but as the five boys regroup can
17:57they put their turbulent past behind them for me if we're going to do this we've got to work
18:02through bullshit like all that superficial like not not say like I want to know exactly how you felt
18:07everyone's gonna have a different opinion of it because everyone's had a different experience I
18:12definitely have feelings that like nobody quite understood each other's position in the band we
18:22were from such different completely not bring in different like places I mean you weren't cool man no
18:28we weren't for about four months I was like who is this dude seriously seriously me I'd never
18:36encountered like a being like you from where I come from I don't know it was weird to me yeah there
18:44was it there was a split in there wasn't it started yeah from my personal point of view when we first got
18:49in the band me and you were like so close and I actually felt in the band I felt that I lost you as a
18:57friend and it was horrible because I thought wow the relationship I had with Shawn is being
19:03completely destroyed I went from thinking you were fantastic to to not liking you very much because
19:11of the person I thought you'd become when Shawn joins the band at 15 it was a dream come true for
19:22the unassuming child prodigy who was writing music aged nine I just love music I mean that's that's
19:30where it all began and that's the thing that sustains me that's why that's why I'm here this is like my
19:37lyric book this is just this is just full of songs songs whether it's cheesy pop music classical music soul
19:47music you know to me it's it's the same 12 notes and just that's what I'm about but his years in
19:56five under Jay's influence turned his passion into his downfall me and Jay were like brothers and he
20:03was like to me you know he's like listen you know this band we're in and the music we're doing basically
20:09it's cheesy pop and he's shit so I took it all on board as a 15 year old I was like yeah he's right
20:17we're not cool but somewhere in the middle he changed his attitude embraced it loved it and became the big
20:25pop star and sort of left me behind I didn't change I embraced the negativity that's what destroyed me
20:37mentally unable to cope he called it quits when five were at their peak turning his back on a fortune
20:42and it's taken years for him to be able to face his painful past when I first sort of came out of the
20:48band I did everything I could to get away from the industry and listen to the music I never watched
20:55myself on TV I never I just closed closed it off two years ago I watched the Brits for the first time
21:02on YouTube somebody told me it looked good he spent the past few years pursuing a solo career as
21:11yet without success but can finally see five as a positive part of his life I want to get to a point
21:20where we we we we finished the show at Hammersmith Apollo and we say finally we embraced it we enjoyed it and
21:32it's it's it's a beautiful thing Sean's decision to leave was the beginning of the end for five
21:43so some epic bridge buildings needed when I really left did you hate me absolutely 100% not a even that
21:54much thank you I'm too tired to feel what's the way you when the band ended you know I'd want I want
22:01you all to know that it was hardest decision for me and and it was a selfish decision my decision as a
22:13affected everybody's of course yeah I didn't want it to end I wanted to keep going I always thought
22:21you did man no that's what I'm saying I did one fuck this I want a solo career and I thought he
22:27wanted a solo career and he was like fuck this let's just end it now and I'm like what wait I think
22:32that everyone played their part everyone played their part in being horrible at times I mean I you know
22:40what an annoying fucker I could be remember when I got you in the headlock we went tumbling down
22:44the steps I do remember that listen to me right stop making a joke of it because you know you're
22:50serious so why did you chuck me down the stairs because I lost the plot I felt at times you were
22:56taking it for granted what everything we had how can you say we're taking it for granted like take
23:02America for instance in my opinion the reason we were dropped by the label is because of how you
23:08and Jay behaved and we were platinum in the states and we were going to actually smash the states but
23:15can I just say there was two obnoxious no offense but obnoxious people that pissed off big bods in
23:21America so what did you do wrong through the band were you perfect I wasn't an angel but I would say
23:26I didn't cause us anywhere near as much shit would you never obnoxious what why are you why are you
23:32all of a sudden doing that give it to me what what have you got God what's your problem I'm taking all
23:39the fucking flack for Jay you're not taking flack I don't know fucking no yeah you're the ones that
23:45they go we need to get all this out we need to talk about it but then as soon as we start talking about
23:50it you go I'm taking all the flack well you're fucking walking around like you've got some halo on
23:55you're like I was angelic me how did you fuck all me I didn't say that you're bullshitting
24:00come on what am I bullshitting about what is going on here well you two calm down I think
24:06Sean's had one too many people can we all just fucking chill out everyone my god honestly it's
24:12just taking six hours because nobody lets anyone fucking speak nobody lets anybody speak
24:17shut up you don't ever let anyone speak let him finish what you're saying Sean it's all good man
24:23it's all in the past abs good to see ya let's have a beer do you know what I feel overwhelmingly
24:31that fucking Jay's missing man well cuz he is saying he's not here I'm feeling it though I'm gonna have
24:42a problem with the fifth member I'm gonna have a problem with the fifth member like I don't want
24:49any other punk in the band and I don't want him just to be some punk that is just gonna fill the
24:54space temporarily if we have to get another member I don't think we should go for these x-factor runner
25:01ups x members of bands I mean everyone's really negative about this extra member thing like rich
25:07you know almost you can see I can see in his eyes he just doesn't even believe in it doesn't want it to
25:11happen I'd much rather it just be the four of us because I think we could do it we'll call five
25:15we'll fuck to you just because of our name we need to get them all in fresh and and start looking
25:20for this new member if we don't find him we're gonna carry on our search and and try and find
25:25the dude that feels Jay's shoes what about for my smell of a fork the fact that we're all in the same
25:34room is amazing so it's happening it really is happening coming up temperatures rise when
25:46Kerry rejoins the kittens are you gonna commit completely to it this isn't my band anymore
25:52don't spit your dummy out yeah this reunion could open a Pandora's box and five start the hunt for
25:59the new Jay I was put in a band just for being a model really would you sing for us today no in 1999
26:13atomic kittens pneumatic pop anthems won an army of fans with the band on the cusp of mega success
26:20Kerry jump ship undeterred atomic kitten carried on with a new member reaching number one in the
26:28charts and 10 million record sales before departing via pops great cat flap in 2004 tonight after 12
26:37years the original lineup is meeting at Tasha's house as a band for the first time since Kerry said
26:42see ya will we gel will the chemistry where you know there's a lot of things that could possibly not
26:50work it's all really happening I'll be honest I was in the car thinking do I want to be doing this
26:58again oh well for me now let's crack on there's something in the back of my mind that saying you
27:15know Kerry come back into the band will the dynamics change will things be different between me and Tash
27:19I don't think I'd be human if I didn't think that
27:24Liz and Tash are now friends but back in 2004 when the band split the fallout was nuclear I just
27:37pulled the gas into the room and said I'm leaving and that is it you know I'm not well Tash was suffering
27:44from postnatal depression but at the time the others didn't know how bad her illness was I felt
27:49so much anger towards her at the time for wanting to quit on us they were young they hadn't had kids
27:55they didn't understand what I was going through but I just felt like there wasn't no one there to
28:00support me it's funny because as soon as I realized it was postnatal depression the guilt overwhelmed me
28:07I think me and Liz reconnected when I moved back to Liverpool kind of put to bed any crap we had with
28:20each other and it's amazing what you can cure over a bottle of Pinot Grigio she is one of my since
28:27leaving the bond one of my best best friends Liz is still a regular on stage and TV and has made time
28:42to pursue her culinary passions Tash has settled in the country with her three boys and husband
28:50Riyadh together they've a thriving chain of coffee shops around the UK it's like old wooden kind of
28:57shabby sheet I mean I'm creative director so my input is at the beginning of a lot of projects you
29:05know picking decors kind of the interior design the girls can exchange lols now but having felt alienated
29:12by Tash and Kerry's bond the first time round Liz knows how fickle friendships can be get an atomic
29:19getting back together I think I'm most worried about and losing it my friendship with Tash now
29:27that we've rebuilt it so much I'm gonna be watching like a hawk for certain relationship forming yeah
29:36this reunion could open a Pandora's box we're opening up ourselves me and Liz you know to Kerry to you know
29:43come back and okay here's a very bizarre situation but I think she's very nervous like we're a Tom a
29:49kitten you know I fire it's really weird you girls have done this for you know what you carry on for
29:55four years and the good thing is I did leave because you weren't massive that must have been tough though
30:00you know what I think at that moment in time well I wasn't ready for it I was you know I was breaking
30:07down I didn't want that side of it especially I mean I left in what 2001 you abandoned us bitch
30:13you said to me I'm leaving I don't want to do it no more and you you were crying you were crying to
30:23me yeah I can't do it no more Tash but don't tell no one don't tell the other one you can't tell no
30:30one and when you ran out the car that day and was sobbing your eyes out as much as I adored you and
30:36loved you and wanted you to stay I was like look Liz we'll get through this and you know what I meant
30:41I meant it I felt it I hadn't worked all my life from the age of 12 for it to stop then just as it
30:47was getting good I thought nah this we're gonna get through this I think the way you said it as well
30:52I was like oh okay I believe that it just made me realize you saying you were sat in the car you
30:58were giving her a hug and I thought shit you know you my baby girls the kittens carried on but once
31:06Kerry left the band her chaotic private life was like catnip to the tabloids from being an atomic
31:11kitten and then marrying a Westlifer you know there's going to be a lot of media attention on you that was
31:19just quite difficult to handle I guess the public see us as this perfect golden couple and in reality
31:25it wasn't the martial breakdown Brian has cheated it was all the papers and oh it was awful her home
31:33life had gone West but her career was about to take off in a new direction in the distance was the
31:38promise of a kangaroo bum sandwich got offered I'm a celebrity to get me out I knew it'd be me I won the
31:45jungle which a massive thing for me so we gave the marriage another go and you know we had our baby
31:52you know pretending we're out and happy but their relationship was beyond repair he left me and he
32:02got with somebody else and that absolutely destroyed me it made me feel a failure as a as a wife as a woman
32:10and as a mother a single mom and desperate for cash the former queen of the jungle and ex-princess
32:15of Iceland embraced the tabloids but on her terms the okay magazines that I do and reality TV shows
32:22that I do that's work for me I have to earn money to keep myself my head above water put food on the
32:28table and put my give my kids a great education but living under the microscope soon took its toll
32:33her second marriage was falling apart and she turned to drugs I was so devastated for my first
32:42divorce that I thought I can't I can't handle another divorce again I've got to work at this
32:49and unfortunately drugs came hand in hand cocaine then becomes your bestest friend in the world it's
32:55the only thing that's going to pick me up and it listens to my problems fortunately enough I had an
33:00opportunity to go away to boot camp for photo shoot and as simple and as stupid as it sounds exercise
33:07it changed my life I've been clean three years in January she finally kicked the drugs only to face
33:14an even bigger hurdle I was diagnosed with an illness called bipolar back in 2005 and it didn't
33:20take much probing from a certain mr. Schofield for her problems to become public don't seem right to me
33:25sitting sitting here now I mean your speech is a bit slurred I mean how do you how are you feeling
33:31is it when they said your speech is slurred Kerry I said that's probably because I'm on medication late
33:36last night I have an illness called bipolar I've got it with me it's 150 milligrams of chlorpromazine yeah
33:41it seems that I mean now this is going to be made it's a huge big publicity only because I am I am
33:48merely pointing out what everybody watching our phone has already gone in the gallery from people
33:54up in ITV and who've said is she okay after reaching an all-time low Kerry bounced back and she's now
34:05found stability in her life with her disorder my psychiatrist said to me let the public know you've
34:11had a drug problem even let them know you've had a drink problem don't let them know you've got mental
34:17health issues because they will not understand it and one thing I want to say to all of you
34:22whoever you're working with for those who have these issues or anything no matter how low you get in
34:26life you can always get yourself back up again thank you with Kerry stepping back into the band after a
34:3512-year break it might be a while before the threesome feel whole again I think on a
34:41personal level for me this is this is a big it's a challenge for me because my confidence has
34:46been completely stripped massively massively you gotta get over there well I know why you've got
34:52you've got to be atomic in as far as I'm concerned this isn't my band anymore it's really really
35:04important now to start thinking as a band you can't think oh that's the two girls and I'm just like
35:10having a bit of a crack are you gonna commit completely to it I know you've got kids and
35:17I'm not saying in that sense you know because when we were younger we committed our whole lives it's
35:21gonna be different now but I mean can you mentally commit yourself to it if you are feeling overwhelmed
35:27or anything like that don't cause but you've done me out and say oh I can't do it that's it you know I
35:32understand you probably would have that we've got to be able to talk with each other I think that we
35:37have to now this so if you think I'm a bitch you've just got to tell me that I'm a bitch I will I will
35:41definitely do that they're joking now but having Kerry back is a reminder of the bad old days when Liz felt
35:48she was excluded by the other two we've got a real real connection now and I don't want I don't want to
35:54lose that I don't want us to go back there well that is really that's no don't don't be because
35:59I think what you know this is all right no I'm worried that it would change the dynamics of our
36:03relationship it won't I could see the worry in Liz's eyes when she said to Tash you know I'm scared I
36:11don't I don't want to lose what we've built up I'm not a threat and you're a bit worried that
36:16something will change between us we've all got our little quirks you'll do my head in I'll do your head
36:22and vice versa we've got to say it's about letting things go telling each other to shut up when
36:28we're being drama queens but I don't think that's going to be as much this time around no no it won't
36:33but it won't how do you two feel about going back on stage together it's the singing it's the singing
36:39we've all got rhythm and the dance routines were never challenging it's the singer if I was to do a
36:46dance routine that like we did when I was in the band back in the day do you know what now talking
36:56we've we've got a bond that bond is there which is great but will that translate on stage when it
37:03translate in a picture how are we gonna look the three of us I've been juicing for 30 days so I'm not
37:11the fat one I'm now officially again Atomic King I think there's a long way to go before you can call
37:20yourself a band coming up five do their best Simon Cowell impersonations yeah you can sing hi and stuff but
37:32it didn't have any tone to it or any yeah we don't agree on much do we so why are we going to agree on
37:37this and the kittens are back this is it bring it up it's 7 a.m. and the girls are up for a photo shoot
37:56after meeting last night this is the first official outing as Atomic Kitten and it looks like it's
38:01business as usual morning morning people oh I can hear Carrie she's very chirpy
38:14the girls haven't done publicity together as a three-piece since Kerry quits 12 years ago good day
38:35bit homo look like nor the button standard we're doing a photo shoot we have our hair and makeup done
38:44we're going to get like in really nice clothes and really excited but it looks like the claws are
38:49starting to come out major fail on my part I should have gone straight into styling backseat if you have
38:57it's now the girls are raised in the rails I'm panicking a bit pulling up I knew I should be
39:03thinking that you know that is so standard Atomic Kitten that's what happens one goes into hair one
39:08goes into makeup and and then one looks at clothes it's definitely official people are going to see the
39:20pictures now
39:21it's acting
39:22there's so much you can do that will make me see that making my love that I call you baby so come on baby do it do me good now do it good now do it good
39:35unfortunately we were against the clock because Kerry had to run off and you know go do her thing so it was stressful
39:41but it definitely went well Tasha and I got the rest of the day to ourselves so we're going to go and have a little drink in a new bar
39:48while the girls enjoy most of their life back in the cat race the boys from five are confronting a j-shaped hole after he pulled out of the big reunion Scott and manager Chris have cherry-picked from the best of the five hopefuls they have to persuade the others they can find a fifth member today the lads have turned into a quarter
40:11quartet of cowls to audition the top three
40:14he better not be late
40:17yeah he better not be late
40:18well that's it
40:20well because we're never late we're on time we're on the ball he's got a show he's got he's got to turn up no sleep and piss we'll go you're in
40:32first up is musician and model Dan Corsi best remembered for his journey with the boy band Northern Line
40:38so how long were you in the band for I think I was the first member to join right so I was in it for three years
40:45I mean I was put in a band just for being a model really
40:51it's been they categorized you as a pretty way I think I did then yeah I wasn't put in a band for singing
40:57yeah I just thought I brought something different you can sing though you can I can hold a note with people I can't I'm not Mariah Carey
41:05would you sing for us today?
41:08what on my own? no
41:11no
41:12I sing with the rest of you and harmonize but I'm not standing up and we wish you a merry good
41:17do you know what I mean I'd just look an idiot
41:20I mean we want to meet up again later
41:22yeah
41:23not today but another time if you think I'm any good to come and hang out with you then we'll do it
41:27well no we appreciate what you've said you know
41:31I've got a good career DJing
41:33thought I'd come and see what it was all about I've seen it it's up to them now
41:37it's obviously a bit disappointing that he said he don't sing
41:40but he was honest he said he sings a bit he could harmonize and that which is maybe all we need
41:45it doesn't have to be Pavarotti but like he's got to be able to sing
41:49next is musician and model Luke Boyden another industry veteran
41:54what's your background like have you done something before?
41:57yes I've been involved in a couple of bands before but for whatever reason it hasn't materialized at the end of the day
42:02and what's your thing like you vocalists like you know you're obviously the singer and stuff
42:07yeah I've always been a sort of soul boy really I'm into my old school Stevie Wonder Michael Jackson
42:14fan of you boys back in the day you're NSYNC
42:17would you want to sing for us today?
42:19I can do
42:23I pretended I'm glad you went away
42:28the pain is real growing more everyday
42:32now I'm dying inside
42:35and nobody knows it but me
42:39no no
42:41I can see it so clearly
42:44but you're no way around
42:50little bit sort of nervous coming into it obviously the guys have been there
42:53done that sold a lot of records
42:55if the call came there'd definitely be four guys I'd get on with I think
42:59basically Scott you love him don't you?
43:01the reason why I liked him he was a nice guy he was humble he appreciated it he sang well
43:07did you like him?
43:08I liked him as a nice guy but is it just a nice guy we want?
43:12like these do my head in but it's good but when he was talking I felt like I was having counselling
43:20and I felt so calm and so at ease which is nice it'll make it a very nice tour but there's no spark
43:27with the camp split on Luke it's time for the last hopeful Nathan Rawlings
43:32this musician might not be a model but he does look familiar
43:35I went into X Factor 2010 got to the judges houses and then picked up management 18 months on the road
43:43toured with a few people got let down and now I'm back to work
43:46simple as that
43:48can I ask you to sing acapella?
43:49do we still want to hear you sing?
43:50we can ask you to sing acapella
43:51of course acapella
43:52that's fine
43:53yeah
43:54yeah
43:55alright
43:56let's
44:01let's
44:02let's stay together
44:07loving you whether
44:10whether
44:12times
44:13I'm good
44:14or bad
44:15happy
44:16or sound
44:22thank you
44:23I think I could fit into five
44:24they're good lads of my age seem to have a bit of a something going on so you never know
44:28top bloke
44:30really nice guy
44:31brilliant voice I mean sang really well
44:33yeah you can sing high and stuff but it didn't have any tone to it really
44:36soul
44:37yeah again I start thinking about when you're on stage and you're holding your own
44:40is it strong enough do you know what I'm saying?
44:42yeah
44:43yeah that's a fair point
44:44I got feeling when he sang
44:46hmm
44:47and I think that you know as it's music that matters
44:50we don't agree on much do we?
44:52so why are we going to agree on this?
44:54where are we after the you know today?
44:57Nathan and Luke would be on my shortlist no offence to the other guy
45:00he didn't even want to do it
45:01no
45:02he wasn't interested
45:03it's safe to say that I think we'll probably continue that this process
45:07this is something for the longevity of the band it's got to be right
45:09this is not just a oh we'll just fill a gap
45:12everyone in this band has got to be happy with that decision
45:15this process could take a lot longer than we want it to
45:18next time on the big reunion
45:22Kerry's ninth life as a kitten is littered with challenges
45:25we've got Liz and Tash and they're going
45:27no it's this it's that it's this it's that
45:28so I'll just turn the back and go
45:37hello
45:38more bands revisit their years in the pop wilderness
45:40maybe like well he obviously doesn't give a shit anymore
45:43you couldn't even stand up
45:44you couldn't even stand up
45:47what tricks were you doing?
45:48cocaine
45:50can I look at you?
45:53and the five boys are partying like it's 1999
45:56just getting warmed up mate
45:57just getting warmed up
46:01blimey the drama
46:02we'll love it
46:03we'll love it
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