Noughties popstar threatens to release ‘diaries’ about experiences on ‘unhinged’ reality TV series-Robert Oliver-Entertainment – Metro

Myleene Klass of Hear’Say has ‘diaries’ about her time on Popstars (Picture: Dave Hogan/Getty Images)

Myleene Klass has threatened to tell all about her experiences on the noughties reality series Popstars, revealing she ‘kept diaries’ while on the show.

The British singer and musician, 46, was one of five people who won the first edition of Popstars back in 2001 and formed the new pop group Hear’Say.

Hear’Say, formed of Myleene, Kym Marsh, Danny Foster, Suzanne Shaw, and Noel Sullivan, became overnight sensations but public opinion turned against the group soon after.

Despite the group’s split, Myleene’s career in music and TV continued, and now she’s threatened to release the diaries she kept while competing on Popstars 23 years ago.

On Twitter, user @St_ua_rt revealed he would be re-watching old episodes of the series, which later produced Liberty X and Girls Aloud, and picking out highlights from ‘the most unhinged reality show ever seen on British TV’.

Myleene responded to the tweet by joking that she was already on the internet trying to book a therapist – the clips showed Myleene and her bandmates being moved into a house with no plumbing.

In a second tweet, she said: ‘For the record, I kept diaries!’

Later highlights in the Twitter thread showed head judge Nigel Lythgoe referring to Kym as a ‘goose’ who had ‘gotten fat’, reducing the future Coronation Street actress to tears.

Myleene jumped to Kym’s defence in the clip, saying: ‘All this crash diet business is silly. The way the women are told [to lose weight] is bad enough as it is. We don’t need that extra pressure on our heads.’

Kym asked a producer for the footage to be scrapped from the episode but Nigel continued to insist that she go on a diet.

Hear’Say were an overnight success in the early 2000s (Picture: Dave Hogan/Getty Images)

Myleene’s career continued after Hear’Say split up in 2002 (Picture: Brian Rasic/Getty Images)

The group’s debut single, titled Pure and Simple, sold over 500,000 copies and became one of the fastest-selling debut songs of all time, shooting straight to number one in the charts.

Despite their initial success, the group quickly became unpopular with British TV viewers and they split, citing ‘abuse from the public’ as the main reason for calling it quits.

Kym Marsh was called a ‘goose’ by Popstars head judge Nigel Lythgoe (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

Nigel Lythgoe, here with Myleene, was a controversial figure on the show (Picture: FilmMagic)

Myleene revealed years later that the group had even drawn the ire of Sir Elton John, who called them ‘the ugliest band in the world’, later apologising by sending them a bouquet of flowers.

Myleene’s comments make her the latest in a long line of reality TV contestants from the 2000s and 2010s who have threatened to reveal the darker side of the industry.

Katie Waissel, who appeared on The X Factor back in 2010 alongside the likes of One Direction and Rebecca Ferguson, hit out at the series late last year.

‘[There was] abuse, manipulation and coercion that went on behind the scenes on the X Factor, of which myself and many others have spoken publicly about.’

She continued: ‘The show was disturbingly manufactured and manipulated … Serious and significant issues need to be addressed, and further remedied.’

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