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Una Healy said she is ‘rallying all the girls’ for a Saturdays’ 20th anniversary reunion tour after discussing plans with her former bandmate Molly King.
The band, formed of Una, Molly, Frankie Bridge, Rochelle Humes, and Vanessa White, rose to fame in 2007 before disbanding in 2014.
Despite insisting it was a ‘break’, not a ‘break-up’ when they split, they have all gone on to forge successful individual careers in TV and music.
Speaking on 2FM Morning with Laura Fox, Una reflected on the past 18-years and said it ‘would be a good time’ to get reunion plans in motion.
The singer said: ‘I hope so, you know that it has been 18 years now. So only two more to go. It was 2008 since the first single. The years are flying by it’s scary.
‘I was recently talking to Molly and she just reminded me. She was like “you know it’s the big 20th now, in two years.”‘
Una Healy said she is ‘rallying all the girls’ for a Saturdays’ 20th anniversary reunion tour after discussing plans with her former bandmate Molly King
The band, formed of Una, Molly, Frankie Bridge , Rochelle Humes , and Vanessa White , rose to fame in 2007 before disbanding in 2014 (pictured in 2009)
Una continued: ‘I always think that the noughties was ten years ago. So I think that it would be a good time. It would take time to get a tour together.
‘I am trying to rally them all up and I want it to be all of us as well. We all do. That’s how we all collectively feel.
‘If we ever do anything again it would have to be all five or it wouldn’t be the same. I would just love if it was all of us.’
The reunion talks come after fans were convinced that Frankie and Rochelle – who have known each other since childhood – are secretly feuding.
Despite both women denying there’s been a fallout, the rumour mill went into overdrive after Frankie hinted at a feud in a cryptic TikTok video, posted last year after the pair reportedly ‘snubbed’ each other at Wimbledon.
The other members of The Saturdays have not commented on the rumoured rift and the five-piece have not been pictured together in the same room for eight years.
In a new interview with Hunger magazine, Rochelle shut down any speculation of a feud by insisting the band members will always and have always had respect for each other.
Rochelle explained: ‘We’ve always had such respect for each other.’
Speaking on 2FM Morning with Laura Fox, Una reflected on the past 18-years and said it ‘would be a good time’ to get reunion plans in motion
While addressing the reason behind the band taking a break in 2014, Rochelle added: ‘Everyone wanted that drama for us. They couldn’t understand the idea that, actually, five girls [could] get on.
‘But no, we didn’t [split]! Don’t get me wrong, we had disagreements, but we were like sisters. Everyone expected [being in a girl band] to be really traumatic, but it wasn’t.’
Prior to The Saturdays being formed in 2007, Frankie and Rochelle already knew each other.
The pair met when they were picked to join S Club Juniors in 2001 – a spin-off from S Club 7 – and they went on to release six top 10 singles.
When the group disbanded four years later, Rochelle went on to host the show Smile, while Frankie attempted to make it as a solo singer.
Yet their paths soon crossed again in 2007 when there was an open casting for a new girl group – which became The Saturdays.
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