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S Club deny tabloid report that Hannah Spearritt was pushed out of reunion tour
By Chris Cooke | Published on Wednesday 2 August 2023
S Club have dubbed claims that Hannah Spearritt has been shut out of their upcoming reunion tour as “nonsense”. Commenting on the tabloid report that made those claims, the group’s Jon Lee observed: “Whenever an article starts with ‘a source said’, you can kind of take it with a pinch of salt”.
The S Club reunion tour was announced back in February and was originally set to involve all seven members of the group. But that, of course, was before the death of Paul Cattermole in April.
Following Cattermole’s death, it was announced that the S Club tour would still go ahead, but that – following the change in circumstances – Spearritt had opted not to take part. Those shows are now due to take place this autumn and the five remaining members of the group released a new track last week.
However, with that new track released, The Sun then reported that Spearritt never formally opted out of the reunion tour and was “blindsided” when her former bandmates made the announcement that they would be doing the shows without her.
Talks then reportedly followed to try to get Spearritt on board for the shows after all but – says one of those pesky sources – by that point “bad blood” between her and the rest of the group made the chances of that happening rather slim.
Says the source to The Sun: “Hannah is devastated. She was pushed out and doesn’t understand why. The rest of S Club has been told not to contact her”.
The other S Club members were asked about that report when appearing on ITV’s ‘This Morning’ on Monday. According to NME, Tina Barrett responded “the article’s nonsense”, while Lee added that pretty much the only thing The Sun got right is that “we are doing a fifteen date tour across the country”.
All the members also insisted that the door is still open for Spearritt to return, with Jo O’Meara adding: “We’re doing a lot of stuff in 2024, so you never know what’s going to happen in the future”.
