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I'm most looking forward to Sarah, Shayne and JB. Although I do hold a degree of scepticism as to how the latter will fare (not because he's not up to it) but given the treatment Aston received at the hands of certain judges on his series when he did it. Once bitten, twice shy as they say...

The final four confirmed celebrities were: - Montell Douglas (Fire from Gladiators) - Nick Knowles (DIY SOS) - Paul Merson (Former Arsenal player and footie pundit) - Sam Quek (Former Team GB Olympic field hockey player / TV presenter)

Watched this last night, all excited to see this and the Tangled Up Tour again... And I'll be bluntly honest. I was so disappointed. It was terrible. It was so poorly edited and compiled. Zooming out of songs before they were finished. The on screen info for each song, some of the "facts" weren't even true ('They didn't record Wicked Game'? Er yeah they did). The clips weren't even in chronological order, jumping from Sound of the Underground on Top of the Pops to Love Machine and Long Hot Summer(?) The use of the videos for See The Day, Wake Me Up AND Jump when we know full well that they performed those on BBC shows? Especially for Wake Me Up? (The bikes on TOTP? Need I say more) And then to add insult to injury, NONE of the performances of "Something New" to finish on and they played "Mahbaybehmahbaybehmahbaybeh" over the end credits? Are they freaking trolling us? Whoever compiled and edited this show was quite clearly not a fan or couldn't be bothered to do their research. I could have done a better job. Half the hardcore fanbase could have done a better job. I'm actually of a mind to complain to the BBC because it actually ruined my enjoyment of watching the Tangled Up Tour again because I was in such a grump about the hatchet job that had been done. They deserved better.

Olympic Team GB swimmer Tom Dean and EastEnders' Jamie Borthwick (Jay Brown) are now confirmed as well.

Series 7 confirmed to start on Saturday 17th August at 6:20pm on BBC One: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022677

I know right! What-I-call such fun 😁

He has just confirmed on Lorraine that he's doing it! Also confirmed: - Toyah Willcox (80s pop icon, Brum / Teletubbies narrator, actress and presenter) - Wynne Evans (the GoCompare dude) - Pete Wicks (TOWIE) - Sarah Hadland (Stevie in Miranda) - Tasha Ghouri (Love Island) - Dr Punam Krishnan (BBC Morning Live)

First couple of names announced today: JB Gill from JLS and the stand up comedian Chris McCausland.

I think it's safe to say that it'll be a while before they do anything again. Especially considering how much of this last 18 months since they first announced it as a seven has been a total rollercoaster of emotions. I'm just happy I got to see them and make 12 year old me super happy. If they do anything else beyond this that will be lovely but I'm under no illusion there absolutely will be.

They did add an O2 London show after all - which I have booked for! One other thing of interest is that they've slowly been reuploading their old videos as HD remasters. The latest one uploaded today has been that for "Give Me A Reason", which of course was single off the album after this one (In Blue). They've said they've got more vinyl news coming soon so maybe it's all their albums that are about to get reissues? Let's hope so!

I did see a couple of camera crews milling around outside and in the foyer at The O2 last week. Hopefully we get the actual full show for posterity as well, even if it's not on a DVD like in the past!

It's publication day today! As well as The One Show she was also on Lorraine yesterday, and Heart FM with Jamie Theakston and Woman's Hour on Radio 4 today: 7iCJZCBRKSs C1dclm2YmfU

She's on The One Show tonight talking about the book: @1803023799194943523

https://simonneedsyou.com/ - Auditions at the end of July. The show - being produced by Syco with some independent company - doesn't yet have a name but there's a lot of talk about this on social media. And it's largely going down - rightly so - like a cup of cold sick. This thread in particular basically one red flag: @1798140290634862773 Every fibre of my being is hoping that this flops (it probably will anyway) but yeah. The world doesn't need boybands if Simon's involved.

Book signing at Waterstones at Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex confirmed for 25th June: https://www.waterstones.com/events/meet-rac...tevens/lakeside

Tough call here but I went for "Wake Me Up" in the end as that was the point I became a mega fan! Do we have any idea which of these is closest to being certified next?

I know, it's extortionate. Even JLS and S Club on their most recent tours didn't charge that much! Kind of glad I got my tees from the vinyl reissues now. (That said, there's rumours flying around that they'll have a pop up store when they do The O2 so I'm kind of saving myself for that! I'll get a programme at Cardiff, of course).

She played her solo show at Jazz Cafe in London last night. She performed quite a lot of the new album, "Never Felt Like This Before" and a few All Saints songs. There's a very extensive interview here about the album on The Line of Best Fit: https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/i...ing-new-chapter

Nic and Nat appeared on Mark Wogan's podcast "Spooning With Mark Wogan" (don't worry, it's not as dodgy as it sounds. Very funny watch / listen though): RCSFQDShubE Anyway, when asked about future activities, Nat more or less confirmed that work has started on new music from them both 😄

Annoyed though I am it's taken them three volumes of this Millennium series to stop littering the tracklistings with barely remembered mid-charting singles by 80s legends or songs that weren't even singles here by random US artists, I have to say it's a decent tracklist they've assembled this time around!

Remember the girls were asking for questions for something they were doing soon with Rylan a couple of weeks back? Looks like this was what it was for! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001zf06 I will actually be in Cardiff on the tour when this goes out but this'll be nice to listen to on the journey home the day after ☺️

Digital EP out today:

Cardiff on Bank Holiday Monday for me and then the Wednesday show on 26th at The O2 with my friend!

The girls presented their manager and marketing manager at Polydor, Peter Loraine, with a special lifetime achievement award at the Music Week Awards last night: I mean I always say this about Peter but honestly. One man pop champion! Imagine having nicknaming the Spice Girls, marketing S Club 7, managing Girls Aloud and reuniting Steps on your CV? Kings only! There's a really nice cover interview with him here that's worth a read: https://www.musicweek.com/interviews/read/e...-loraine/089713

Jordan presents a podcast for the BRIT Awards called The Red Carpet Treatment. His latest guest is Harley and they more or less confirm in this episode that something is happening soon! v4aTSeq6cig