the band’s future was still undecided

Music The murky world of the Sugababes becomes even murkier with this random interview with The Times (sorry). Which largely consists of the current line-up saying thing like"The abuse on Twitter from some people ... " and "I don’t want to go into all the ... I don’t want all the things in the papers yet..." and the rubbishing of "stories" about angry photo shoots which were "totally made up". Yes, made up by The Times's sister tabloid.

Three other nuggets, one per 'babe:

-- Heidi explains that:

"when the band’s future was still undecided, a video was shot anyway. “Only using body doubles,” she says. “They thought, there’s no band but we still need a video to put out with this song, so the girls who were our stunt doubles became the stars.”

In other words, briefly, a whole other set of girls were in the Sugababes which is just another demonstration that Mutyageddon will indeed become an increasing problem going forward. Obviously, as they say in Doctor Who circles, the canonicity of these three ladies is open to question, making them the Peter Cushing, David Banks and Richard E Grant of the Sugababes.

-- Jade: "I went into a shop in Stratford,” she recalls. “I had someone shouting abuse at me. Really rude, nasty things." That is surreal. The whole situation is curious, but it's certainly not worth shouting at the new member about. It's not her fault. We don't know the chronology of the thing, but shouting? Really? But then, we live in a world were soap stars are bawled at in Waitrose because their character has done something nasty.

-- Amelle: "Really good! Happy happy! Haha! I heard I went to some depression clinic,” she says. “It wasn’t a clinic. It was called ... well, it doesn’t matter what it’s called. It’s a place in Austria where you cleanse your mind, body and spirit. You can walk around in your dressing gown day and night, you don’t have to wear make-up, no one’s judging you. I spoke to a life coach and sorted myself out a little bit."



Glad you're feeling better.