Sunday
27th May 2001 - Thieves raid Hear'Say house
Thieves
have ransacked the house that was home to the manufactured pop band
Hear'Say, the police have said.
The
burglars made off with electrical goods and personal photos belonging
to Myleene Klass, the only member of the group who still lives at
the one million pound north London house, where the hit TV show
"Popstars" was filmed.
"We
can confirm that police were called to reports of a burglary. Audio,
video and photographic property was taken," a Scotland
Yard spokesman said.
Newspapers
said Myleene had been "freaked out" by the burglary, which
occurred on May 24, and would not be returning to the house. "She's
very shaken over the whole affair and has moved to a secret hotel,"
band manager Chris Herbert told the News of the World.
Hear'Say
band members Myleene, Noel Sullivan, 20, Kym Marsh, 24, Danny Foster,
21, and Suzanne Shaw, 19, have enjoyed phenomenal success after
being picked from more than 3,000 hopefuls who auditioned for the
Popstars programme.
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Saturday
26th May 2001 - Hear'Say give surprise gig at weekend festival
Hear'Say
are to play a free gig for thousands of revellers in North Tyneside.
The group is being smuggled in to the massive Orange WOW three-day
music festival.
They
will play on the Galaxy 105-106 stand at the festival at North Shields
Fish Quay from 2pm on Monday.
A festival
spokeswoman today said: "They are definitely coming and
it is fantastic news for the festival and people attending. "It
is a real coup for the festival and the region."
Organisers
are remaining tight-lipped about how Hear'Say will arrive for their
concert but it will be amid tight security following previous stampedes
in other parts of Britain when they arrived at venues.
The
North Shields festival is a mixture of music, dance, culture and
entertainment and is now in its 15th year.
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Thursday
24th May 2001 - Hear'Say - By Royal Appointment
Hear'Say
will sing for Prince Philip at a concert to mark his 80th birthday
tonight.
The
group will perform their new single The Way To Your Love at a gala
night at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Mel
B, Claire Sweeney and Jerry Hall are also due to appear at the show.
The
Royal Variety performance-style event will be filmed by the BBC
and is said to be screened at a later date.
A source
told The Sun: "It's a bit bizarre that young acts like Hear'Say
will perform for the Duke - I'm not sure he knows who they are.
"They
are obviously very nervous, but they are really looking forward
to it."
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Wednesday
23rd May 2001 - Jack And Kym Are Officially An Item
Jack
Ryder has told UK newspaper The Sun that new girlfriend Hear'Say's
Kym Marsh is 'like no one I've met before'.
19-year-old
Ryder spent the weekend with Kym, her parents and her two children
in Wigan. 'Kym is gorgeous,' he said. 'She makes me feel
like a new man. This is not some shallow showbiz relationship. We've
just clicked.'
Last
year Jack Ryder was linked with S Club 7's Hannah Spearitt. He also
recently split up with student Carol Heather while Kym split from
her fianceacute; Martin Murphy because of the pressures of her new-found
fame.
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Monday
21st May 2001 - Jack pops in to see Kym's mum
HEAR'SAY
beauty Kym Marsh has taken soap star lover Jack Ryder home to meet
her parents. The 24-year-old singer now admits the relationship
is serious after they kept it under wraps for weeks.
Jack,
19, — who plays Jamie Mitchell in BBC soap EastEnders — met her
mum Pauline, 52, and dad David, 55, over the weekend.
The
couple have been on a string of secret dates in Spain and London.
The
trip to Kym’s family in Wigan, Greater Manchester, came as the mum-of-two
denied having slimmer’s disease bulimia and talked candidly about
her teenage pregnancy.
The
couple didn’t seem to care who saw them as they boarded a train
on Friday night. They sat together in the STANDARD class smoking
carriage for the three-hour journey.
Kym
— whose chart-topping band was formed during the Popstars TV series
— gazed lovingly into Jack’s eyes as they stroked each other’s hands.
And they happily signed autographs and chatted to fans on the trip
from London’s Euston Station.
Passenger
Chris Blackman, 22, said: "They were all over each other.
They sat close together, playing with each other’s hands. They looked
very romantic and make a lovely couple."
Kym
took presents for her children David, five, and Emily, three, who
are being cared for by her parents. She recently split with long-term
boyfriend Martin Murphy, 21, from Wigan.
Jack
was recently dumped by student girlfriend Carol Heather, 18, after
he was pictured holding hands with actress Michelle Ryan, 17, who
plays Zoe Slater in EastEnders.
Kym
and Jack tried to dodge pressmen when they arrived back at Euston
yesterday. They kept APART after Hear’Say bosses banned Kym from
posing for pictures with Jack. Kym even denied having spent the
weekend with Jack. She joked: "Look I haven’t got him under
my jacket." Jack ignored reporters’ questions.
A 29-year-old
passenger said: "They were really lovey-dovey, they spent
most of the journey holding hands, kissing and cuddling. "At
one time Kym giggled ‘I’m just sending you a dirty text message’.
"They got off the train from separate exits. Kym even gave
a bunch of flowers to another passenger to try to keep their romance
secret."
Meanwhile
in a frank interview, Kym insisted her battle with bulimia was over.
She said: "I had an eating disorder when I was 17 but I’ve
conquered it now. I’m very healthy and feel great."
Kym
regularly threw up after meals when she suffered from bulimia and
she tried to hide it from her family.
Promotional
photos she had done at the time jolted her back to reality. She
said: "I’m quite a big-framed girl, with big collarbones
and big shoulders, so the pictures looked awful because I had bones
sticking out. "It
wasn’t a nice sight, and I realised that it wasn’t how I was supposed
to look."
She
now has a healthy figure and is proud to have beaten the disease.
Kym,
who had her first child when she was 18, also said she would encourage
young girls to take the morning-after pill to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
She said: "I was very silly. Neither of my kids were planned.
I didn't know much about the morning-after pill and I was in denial.
"I
thought it would just go away. I was like, ‘It’s only once, it won’t
make any difference.’ But it did." Kym recalls the day she
discovered she was pregnant. "I
sat there with my ex-boyfriend (David Cunliffe) and took the test.
He was like, ‘I’ll stick by you. We’re together and we love each
other’."
Two
years later, Kym and her boyfriend had another "accident".
She was taking contraceptive pills, but she didn’t realise a stomach
bug made them ineffective. She said: "I was silly again,
and I didn’t think about it. But when you’ve got a kid already,
you don’t worry about it so much. After all, we were supposed to
be getting married."
The
UK has the highest teen pregnancy rate in western Europe, and Kym
is keen to pass on some advice. She said: "I was 18 and
that was young. "But
now girls of 14 are having babies. So if something like that happens
to you, go for the morning-after pill. "Don’t
leave it — it won't go away. And it’ll be even harder to have an
abortion."
EXCLUSIVE
feature appears in issue 16 of Star: the celebrity magazine, on
sale 22nd May 2001.
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Friday
18th May 2001 - Hear'Say arrange book signing at Harrods
Hear'Say
have arranged an exclusive high-security book signing session at
Harrods. The Popstars band will sign copies of Popstars: The Making
of Hear'Say at the London store on May 31.
Organisers
say they there will be none of the security problems Hear'Say have
had at previous signings, where they were mobbed by fans.
A spokeswoman
told Ananova: "Harrods are used to showing the US president
around the store so security is top notch. "It's
quite an achievment for Hear'Say. Not just anybody can get a book
signing at Harrods."
Popstars:
The Making of Hear'Say has now sold over 100,000 copies.
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Wednesday
16th May 2001 - The rain in Spain stays mainly on Hear'Say
Hear'Say
had to re-shoot the video for their new single after the original
filming schedule was hit by torrential rain.
The
Popstars band shot the video to new single Show Me The Way To Your
Love in Spain. But a second shoot had to be carried out in a London
film studio after the first scenes were ruined by the terrible weather.
Danny
told Worldpop.com: "We shot the video in Spain but there
was torrential rain. Unfortunately it poured with rain and we couldn't
use any of the footage."
A full-sized
wooden prairie-style house was built in the studio to enable Hear'Say
to film the video.
Noel
said they weren't too happy about having to re-shoot the video:
"If we weren't working today we would have been moving into
our new pads. We've just moved out of the Popstars house and we
were looking forward to getting all our furniture sorted!"
The
full report from Hear'Say's video shoots in Spain and London will
be featured on this Saturday's CD:UK.
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Monday
14 May 2001 - It's Hear'Say's White Van Dan
HEAR'SAY
singer Danny Foster was a telly star again yesterday - as he loaded
a removal van.
Danny,
22, lugged a portable TV from the house in Mill Hill, North London,
as he moved out with band pals Noel Sullivan, 20, and Suzanne Shaw,
19.
The
group had lived there since winning ITV's Popstars. Kym Marsh, 24,
and Myleene Klass, 22, will go in a few days. A neighbour said:
"We'll miss them all."
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Monday
7th May 2001 - Hear'Say booed at Swansea festival
Hear'Say
were booed when they appeared in front of 70,000 fans at Radio One's
Big Sunday festival.
Locals
were showing their disapproval of Noel Sullivan.
Noel
is from Cardiff, which did not go down well with the crowd in Swansea's
Morfa fields.
Morfa
stadium will soon be the new home of Swansea City Football Club.
One
Swansea supporter told the Daily Record: "He made a big
fuss about how nice it was to be back home. "Well,
he's not home. He is in Swansea and he is not one of us."
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Monday
7th May 2001 - Hear'Say's Suzanne gets electric shock
Hear'Say's
Suzanne Shaw has suffered an electric shock while filming the band's
new video.
The
singer was reportedly knocked unconscious after treading in water
that had a loose power cable dangling in it. She regained consciousness
and was told to rest.
The
incident happened on Friday night as torrential rain fell on the
set near the Spanish resort of Marbella. A crew member told the
News of the World: "She didn't see that one of the cables from
lights attached to a 115-volt generator had come unstuck. "It caught
her in the foot and she got a huge blast. We all rushed to help.
She was out cold and we feared the worst. "It was horrible. When
she regained consciousness she was dazed and didn't know what was
going on."
Hear'Say's
manager Chris Herbert says Suzanne has made a full recovery.
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Saturday
5th May 2001 - Hear'Say's Suzanne suicide hoax
Hear'Say's
Suzanne Shaw has been the victim of a hoax claiming that she committed
suicide.
A web
page was set up to look like an official BBC news page, it read
"Suzanne Shaw of ITV's Popstars band has been found dead in
her north London home this afternoon. First reports suggest the
young star was left distraught by the effect a tabloid newspaper
publishing details of a home 'sex' video had on her family and friends"
Suzanne
is fine, and on holiday, where she was contacted by her management
to tell her about the story. The BBC are attempting to track down
the source of the hoax.
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Tuesday
1st May 2001 - They're a turn on
HEAR'SAY
are to return to our screens this autumn - as hosts of their own
TV show.
As
if the Popstars winners needed any more help in their bid for global
domination, we can reveal that they are to front their own primetime
slot on ITV.
Although
the plans are strictly top-secret at the moment, MegaStar can reveal
it will be a six-part series.
Not
only will the group perform their own songs, they'll also be chatting
and performing with guest artists.
A Hear'Say
source said last night: "It's going be brilliant for the band.
It just shows they're going to be around for a long time despite
everyone trying to put them down."
The
band will begin work on the show after they finish their British
tour, which runs throughout September.
The
programme is sure to be ITV's top weapon in the ratings war when
the autumn schedules are announced.
Television
bosses were bowled over with the success of the original Popstars
show, which regularly pulled in more than 10 million viewers, hooked
on the birth of the new band.
Since
emerging victorious from the show, the group - Kym Marsh, Myleene
Klass, Suzanne Shaw, Danny Foster and Noel Sullivan - have become
Britain's biggest pop phenomenon since the Spice Girls.
Thousands
of people have headed to their record-signing sessions up and down
the country.
The
band have, of course, also smashed chart records. Their single Pure
And Simple became the quickest-selling track by a debut artist of
all time.
And
this week it has reached another milestone in Britain - by selling
its millionth copy.
The
album - called simply Popstars - has also proved a huge success.
It
went straight to No1, has already gone platinum TWICE and is still
at No2 in the charts a month after its release.
But
just in case Hear'Say and their record company Polydor were worried
their success may not last, the band's own TV programme is sure
to help them cement their position as Britain's biggest pop act.
A music
industry source said last night: "It's advertising that money
just can't buy.
"Giving
them their own show will leave rival pop acts gutted."
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