Twenty years after experiencing international success with British group S Club 7, Hannah Spearritt recounts her struggles. The former singer reveals in the columns of Sun who is struggling to find stable accommodation. Homeless shortly before the Christmas holidays, she took refuge in a friend’s office with his partner and her two daughters, ages four and three.
“People think we all have to be millionaires,” he says of the seven-member former band, which formed in 1998 and broke up in 2003. “Unfortunately, that’s not the case.”
“We had two days to get out of the place”
Hannah Spearritt and her family have experienced four temporary accommodations in the last six months. Things got worse when the owner of the one they were in in November, in southwest London, decided to sell:
“I needed the money and the property sold very quickly. Suddenly we had two days to leave. What got us into trouble was that we didn’t have time to find other accommodation.”
The couple were due to open a café last summer, but delays mounted, delaying the launch of their business: “We used the vacated premises of the café to store our belongings, but we had nowhere to go. A friend let us occupy his office We used it as a living room. We worked there and the children played.”
still looking for accommodation
always according to Sun, they were able to occupy the house of another friend who was absent during the Christmas celebrations. But they are looking for permanent housing.
The family’s concern was precipitated by an “illness” of the ex-singer: “I hardly got out of bed for three months,” he says. But she plans to open her coffee shop (in the London Borough of Twickenham) in the summer: “We hope we can move into our house by then.”
At the height of S Club 7’s notoriety, Hannah Spearritt earned £150,000. But “we received a very low salary compared to the money we brought in,” she explains. S Club 7 would have generated 50 million pounds, according to the tabloid.
Towards a reunion tour
The seven members are supposed to reunite in the fall for a new series of concerts. Hannah Spearritt is the only one who has not yet signed: “I will make my decision soon. I just need to be sure that everything will be fine in terms of health. It is not worth paying a pittance and running away.”
Created by Simon Fuller, the manager of the Spice Girls, S Club 7 enjoyed international success in the early 2000s with hits like bring it all back, club party s Where Don’t stop moving. They were also the heroes of their own television series, which ran for four seasons. Hannah Spearritt continued in comedy after the group broke up and appeared in a few series.
Source: BFM TV
