By Paul Glynn
Entertainment reporter
S Club 7 person announced they volition reunite for a UK and Ireland circuit this year, to people their 25th anniversary.
The radical had bubblegum popular hits similar 1999 debut azygous Bring It All Back, arsenic good arsenic Reach and Don't Stop Movin'.
All 7 archetypal members, including aboriginal solo prima Rachel Stevens, volition deed the roadworthy again unneurotic for the archetypal clip since 2015.
"After 8 years it feels astonishing to denote that we're reuniting and performing unneurotic again," they said.
"We're truthful excited to bring the S Club enactment backmost to our fans crossed the state to observe 25 years of S Club 7," their connection added.
"We can't adjacent judge it's been truthful long. Music and relationship person ever been astatine the halfway of everything that we've ever done.
"We anticipation everyone tin articulation america for 1 large party."
Originally created by erstwhile Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller successful 1998, S Club 7 roseate to fame by starring successful their ain BBC TV series, Miami 7 - a children's sitcom based connected the lives of the radical who had moved to Miami successful hunt of fame. The 2nd bid was titled LA 7 aft they moved to - you guessed it - Los Angeles.
The Brit Award-winning radical went connected to person 4 UK fig 1 singles, including the show's taxable Bring It All Back, and a chart-topping debut album.
They disbanded successful 2003, but came backmost unneurotic successful 2014 for the BBC's Children In Need foundation appeal, performing a medley of their best-loved tunes. They went connected to merchandise caller euphony and circuit the pursuing year.
The radical volition unfastened their 11-date 2023 circuit astatine Liverpool's M&S Bank Arena connected 13 October, going connected to execute successful cities including Dublin, Glasgow and Newcastle, earlier ending their tally astatine London's O2 Arena connected 28 October.
Tickets for the circuit spell connected merchantability connected Friday 17 February astatine 10:00 GMT.
'Positive music'
Speaking aft the announcement connected The One Show, vocalist and dancer Bradley McIntosh said the circuit would spot them "bringing the precocious 90s/early noughties" amusive nostalgic vibes.
"Our euphony is precise affirmative and I deliberation successful today's times you request a spot of positive, you request to beryllium picking up truthful that's what we're present to do," helium said.
Stevens, who each but confirmed rumours of their re-emergence by attending Saturday's Brit Awards with her aged bandmates Tina Barrett and Jo O'Meara, added that it was "crazy" that a 4th of a period had passed since the group's inception, promising they would each "sing our hearts out".
The radical agreed that it "felt similar the close time" for them to reunite.
So what person they each been up to?
Rachel Stevens launched a solo euphony vocation soon aft they archetypal disbanded and had a deed with the opus Sweet Dreams My LA Ex. She besides competed connected the TV shows Strictly Come Dancing - finishing runner-up successful 2008 - and Dancing On Ice.
Hannah Spearritt became an actress, appearing successful ITV's Primeval, arsenic good arsenic having recurring roles successful Casualty and EastEnders. She has besides performed successful signifier shows specified arsenic One Man, Two Guvnors and The Armour. She precocious told The Sun that she was hoping to unfastened an holistic cafe successful southbound London with her spouse aft struggling with accommodation issues and ill-health.
Jon Lee performed successful West End shows specified arsenic Les Miserables and Jersey Boys. He released his debut medium called Fallen Angel successful 2012, and six years aboriginal featured connected ITVBe's Celebrity Dinner Date.
In 2008, Paul Cattermole, Bradley McIntosh and Jo O'Meara formed a spin-off radical called S Club 3, aboriginal renamed S Club Allstars. Tina Barrett later joined the caller set line-up successful 2014, aft she took a lengthy hiatus from her euphony career.
Elsewhere, Cattermole, who utilized to beryllium successful a narration with bandmate Spearritt, appeared connected a 2019 occurrence of First Dates Hotel successful hunt of caller love. He had primitively near S Club 7 successful 2002 to commencement a nu-metal set called Skua but they were ne'er signed to a grounds label.
McIntosh joined MTV's world amusement Totally Boyband successful 2006. He besides has a nexus from his Instagram leafage to an online buying website, selling bath and quality products.
O'Meara, meanwhile, besides went solo, releasing her debut album, Relentless successful 2005. She appeared connected the 2007 variation of Celebrity Big Brother, where, alongside Jade Goody and Danielle Lloyd she recovered herself embroiled successful a racism enactment involving chap rival Shilpa Shetty.
She told the One Show she present felt "ready" to get backmost connected signifier aft having undergone a bid of backmost operations.