Rochelle and Marvin Humes announce birth of baby girl Alaia-Mai. The Saturdays singer Rochelle and husband Marvin Humes announced the birth of their baby girl today. The new dad and former JLS star said the couple are “overjoyed” and revealed “mum is doing great” in a post on Twitter. He wrote: “This morning we welcomed our baby girl Alaia-Mai Humes. “Mum is doing great & baby is amazing! We are both overjoyed! Thanks for your love x” The baby was weighed at 8.2lbs, we can reveal. Experienced mum of the band, Una Healy, sent her love and congratulations: “Big love and congratulations to @RochelleTheSats and @MarvinHumes on the birth of their baby daughter Alaia-Mai So excited to meet her!! X”. The name Alaia comes from a thin, round-nosed, square-tailed surfboard ridden in pre-20th century Hawaii. True story. Vanessa White is also eager to meet the little baba: “Massive congratulations to Rochelle & Marvin on the birth of little Alaia-Mai! I can’t wait to meet her! Xx”. While Aston Merrygold added: “Alaia-mai Humes welcome to the world! I CAN’T WAIT TO MEET YOU!!!! Always love uncle Ast xx”.
- Mirror

Sue Terry Voices is excited to announce former S Club sweetheart & Strictly star has joined us. Full showreel coming in June. You can listen to audio samples and view her profile HERE.

ormer S Club 7 singer Rachel Stevens has been revealed as a guest judge on X Factor New Zealand. The 35-year-old singer joined Melanie Blatt to help her coach the ‘groups’ category and put the bands through their paces. Spending time with the young hopefuls made Rachel miss her old S Club days. Speaking about her experience Rachel, who spent a week in New Zealand, said: ‘It was an exciting week and great fun to be part of the show. I got quite nostalgic seeing the young bands enjoying themselves, creating new styles and sounds. It was lovely to be part of.’ She added: ‘I had a great time in S Club and know how much they’ve got to look forward to. Being back in New Zealand, albeit briefly was a pleasure and I’m excited for Mel and for the show.’ Rachel arrived in style to the judge’s retreat in Mahurangi, 40 miles north of Auckland to surprise contestants. The nervous wannabes barely had chance to take in that All Saints singer Mel would be guiding them through the competition before Rachel was unveiled as a guest judge. It seems that Rachel impressed TV bosses on the show and John McDonald, Co-Exec Producer of X Factor NZ said; ‘Rachel was the perfect addition to help Mel with her decision and she did a great job. Her feedback was incredibly valuable to the contestants and to Mel having been very successful in a band herself. Plus she was a natural in front of the camera.’
- DailyMail

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I also re-added all of the Group Unknown Set albums so titles, # of views, etc have changed.

BRIAN NUTTER w/ Paul Cattermole (formely of S Club) & Stephen Langstaff LIVE @
Upstairs at The Garage
20-22 Highbury Corner,
N51RD London
(TUBE: Highbury & Islington)
Ages 14+

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Ages 14+

More about Brian & this show:
You may know Brian Nutter as the touring guitarist for Keith Urban. Or you may have seen him in the past with Hot Apple Pie, Taylor Swift, Carolyn Dawn Johnson or as the bandleader of Nashville Star.

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The Saturdays singer Frankie Sandford is pregnant.

The pop star and her soccer player fiance Wayne Bridge have announced they are expecting their first child together and the pair are completely overjoyed with the news.

Writing on her Twitter page, Frankie said: ‘Some big news from me today! Wayne and I are having a baby. We are both SO happy and can’t wait for his or hers arrival!’

Frankie was inundated with messages of congratulations on the social networking site and one person who was particularly happy she’d finally shared her pregnancy news was her sister Victoria Sandford.

Victoria tweeted: ‘Finally I can tell everyone IM GONNA BE AN AUNTY!!!!! (sic)

Frankie and Wayne got engaged in April and the romantic sportsman dressed up his lover’s pet dogs as a bride and groom for when he popped the question.

Frankie recently revealed: ‘Wayne took me to a hotel and he got my dogs involved. I didn’t know my dogs were there and they came in in little bride and groom outfits. And Pixie had the ring around her neck on a ribbon.’

Frankie is the latest member of The Saturdays to get pregnant.

Una Healy and her husband Ben Foden welcomed their daughter Aoife into the world in March 2012, while Rochelle Humes and her husband Marvin Humes are due to have their first baby in the coming weeks.

The trio are joined in the band by Vanessa White and Mollie King.

The Saturdays are teaming up with DJ Fresh for new material. The girl group are currently working on their fourth studio album, which is expected to be released later this year. News of the collaboration between the pop act and DJ was confirmed by Professor Green on Twitter, before he went on a night out with the producer and Rizzle Kicks last night (April 30). “DJ fresh is on his way with Harley to join me, @joncalabrese and Jordan. He’s recording with the Saturdays tomorrow though so he’s behaving,” he tweeted.
- DigitalSpy

There are few times when Rachel Stevens’ new life as a mother, and her old one as a sex symbol and No 1 pop star, collide. But when they do it’s almost always at children’s parties. Reach, the S Club 7 song Rachel and her six bandmates had a hit with in 2000, may be more than a decade old but its catchy beat still makes it a firm favourite when it comes to toddler discos. ‘Whenever it comes on everyone looks at me to see how I’ll react,’ she smiles. ‘I think it’s brilliant that people are still playing our music. But all that stuff feels like a lifetime ago. So much has changed.’ S Club 7 split up ten years ago and Rachel, as the band’s most famous face and resident FHM poster girl, went on to have a successful solo career and even acted in a couple of films. But then record sales fell and it went a bit quiet. Next came Strictly Come Dancing in 2008 (Rachel came second behind actor Tom Chambers). But then, just as she had our attention again, she vanished. That was thanks to Amelie, her two-year-old daughter with property developer husband Alex Bourne. Rachel, 35, has enjoyed a quiet couple of years being a mother, but now she’s ready to get back to work.’Being in a band gave me a strong work ethic and I’ve always been very driven,’ she says. ‘I’ve loved spending time with Amelie but I knew I needed to do something else.’ If she worried about being forgotten she needn’t have. She’s just become the face of Next’s Petites range, for women 5ft 3in and under, while from now until September you’ll see her face all over bottles of Belu water. Proceeds will go to WaterAid – she’s an ambassador for the charity – and on a recent trip to Ethiopia in that capacity she says she met a single mother of eight who had to walk miles to get a bucket of dirty water, which certainly made Rachel appreciate her life a little more. Since being ‘spotted’ in the canteen at Sony Records (at the time she was dreaming of becoming a fashion buyer and was only there to have lunch with her brother), and signed up to the band by Spice Girls Svengali Simon Fuller before he’d even heard her sing, Rachel has always happily admitted that, although she’s ambitious, there’s never been a plan.
She’d quite like to try her hand at more acting (the S Club 7 singers also starred in their own faux reality show, a kind of modern-day version of The Monkees) and she’s even been discussing – feel free to squeal or shriek depending on your taste – an S Club reunion. ‘We met at Tina Barrett’s flat and it was like we’d never been apart,’ she says. ‘It was really chilled. We talked about getting back together and although we all have our own stuff going on right now, if the right thing came up it could be fun.’ This time around she might even get a chance to enjoy it. I met Rachel many times in her S Club days and she was always sweet, but very much a closed book. She never talked about her feelings. Chris Moyles once called her ‘really boring’, while Scissor Sisters’ singer Ana Matronic said she ‘has all the personality of a slice of toast’. But the Rachel I meet today is different; she’s more willing to open up. S Club 7 catapulted her to instant fame – the band sold 13 million albums, and their TV show, Miami 7, was screened in 104 countries. But beneath the smile she had to plaster on her face as the feline glamour girl of the group, she now admits she was pretty miserable. ‘I was going through a very confusing time when I first went into S Club,’ she says.
‘My parents were splitting up and it really hit me. At the same time I’d got this job that thrust me into this exciting world. I didn’t want to show people what I was going through. We were being marketed at a very young audience and I was put into the “nice and sweet” box. ‘I ended up playing a role that wasn’t me – or at least there was more to me. I’d put on a smile and pretend everything was great and happy. We all have different layers to us as people. None of us are just nice and sweet. I’m ambitious and some might call me a bit of a control freak. I was vulnerable but I have always struggled to show my vulnerability.’Hardest of all for someone so wary of talking about her feelings was a very public falling-out with her father, Michael Stevens. There was a huge family row when it emerged – via a newspaper – that the man she adored and had always respected had a sideline publishing a guide to London’s best prostitutes. And then, when she refused to open a new clothing shop for him, he lashed out very publicly saying, ‘She’s a total a******e. I don’t care if I never see her again. She’s a stunningly beautiful girl – that’s about all she is. She’s so selfish.’ Until now Rachel has refused to talk about her father, but admits becoming a mother has softened her views. ‘My dad is not in my life unfortunately but I’ve got to the stage where I wish him well,’ she says sadly. ‘I’m not shutting the door to seeing him again. I’m older now and feel more compassion towards him. We all make mistakes. When you become a parent it makes you appreciate your own parents.’Motherhood has changed her in different ways, too. She says it’s taken her a long time to realise that, however hard she works, nothing is ever going to be perfect. ‘The first three months of having a newborn baby was a complete shock to the system,’ she says. ‘As I said, I’m a bit of a control freak but suddenly I had no idea what I was doing. I remember having an absolute meltdown when Amelie had been crying all day. I think all mums go through that. All you hear about motherhood is how amazing it is – and it is amazing – but no one tells you how hard it is. It’s so overwhelming.’But there’s never been a nanny, although she did take on a maternity nurse for a few days when she became desperate for some help (and sleep). She’s due to pick up her daughter from nursery after we speak.’Some days it takes me an hour to get out of the house and I wonder how that happened,’ she laughs. ‘I’ve always taken things really seriously. I think you could see that when I did Strictly. People thought I was a trained dancer, even though I wasn’t, and I felt under a huge amount of pressure to be great and perfect. Taking time out for motherhood has shown me a lot about how life isn’t about being perfect. It’s about being yourself.’ But living by that mantra is a work in progress. After years of eating takeaways and, more recently, her husband’s cooking, she’s finally learning to cook. A friend comes round to teach her and she now cooks twice a week. ‘We all want to be everything. We want to be a domestic goddess, bake our children’s birthday cakes and have a successful career. Well, I’m trying. And I’d like to teach Amelie that doing your best is always good enough.’
- Daily Mail