S Club 7 star Paul Cattermole Is DEAD TO ME!!

How sad. I have to say that I wouldn't be surprised if it was suicide. He had a miserable life after leaving the band.

Fame is one hell of a drug.

He eBayed his Brit award a few years ago.

I LOVED S Club 7 as a kid. So many catchy singles. They were like Steps but even less cool, if that's possible.

The second season of their TV show featured Linda Blair, of all people, as their landlady.

Who?

And so what?

He was hot back in the day. What a shame for his family and friends. Very sad. They had some good songs, Reach was very annoying but their more chill stuff was good, 2 in a million, Natural and you’re my number one, all great. And R4 you don’t have to comment on everything dear.

R5 you took the words out of my mouth. I saw r4 comment and thought “you don’t have to comment on every thread”. Just scroll past it.

Thanks for confirming that the block on r4 was the right move.

Anyway, poor S Club.. Time has not been kind.

[quote]He eBayed his Brit award a few years ago.

That's something a drug addict would do.

I’m low key devastated by the news. I was such a fan of S Club back in the day. Paul was my gay awakening during the 90s.

I liked S Club, they were fun and breezy and had a more lighthearted vibe than American boy bands of that time. Great music for a beach party or something.

He couldn't afford an outfit for a TV appearance in 2018. Poor guy.

He was beautiful when he was young. And still cute as he got older.

His dad was jailed for what Americans call statutory rape in 2002. He left the group the same year. Can't have been easy for him.

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[quote]I liked S Club, they were fun and breezy and had a more lighthearted vibe than American boy bands of that time.

Let's be real, S Club 7 was corny and so was their Fox Family TV show, which was geared toward middle schoolers and under.

Like a British California Dreams, only that was a fake band.

You can't compare to Backstreet Boys or NSYNC.

S Club 7 have had such bad luck. I feel sorry for them. Steps have had their issues but they seem to have pulled it together and made some good records.

I'm thinking suicide. Poor bloke.

While we're guessing, seems like an odd time to suicide given potential fame and fortune is planned with the reunion. 46 is awfully young for natural ailments though.

Why do we keep comparing them to boy bands? S Club was a mixed gender band with more girls than guys.

R15 you're saying those boybands weren't corny???? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Apparently this is a “boy band”.

From luxury to heartache.

Why couldn't it have been Hanna Spearritt?

Paul Cattermole was on First Dates a few years ago. I didn’t see the episode, but it was featured on Gogglebox UK.

He was very sweet and vulnerable and was embarrassed to say he was an ex pop singer.

The date turned him down because of his awkwardness.

This is very sad. Obviously I don't know anything about what was really going on but I get the sense that he was kind of lost.

STEPS have something to say!

R14 You are very hurt and embarrassed

I've never heard of this band. So I went to their wiki page to see they had about a half dozen songs that reached the top five in the early 2000s in the UK.

Other than one hit in 1999, they never charted in the states. It's so crazy they were so big in the UK yet hardly ever charted in the US.

They were like a British attempt at K-Pop. Manufactured catchy tunes performed to strict choreography. They were good wholesome fun.

R28 ummmm they were a British pop group.

I think you need to get your eyes checked. Every single of theirs was in the Top 5 in the UK, with four #1s. Their only US hit came out in 2000.

R29 how were they attempting to be K-Pop 2 decades before K-Pop was ever a thing in the states? Use your brain.

R30 Wow. Your reading comprehension sucks.

I said that they had a string of hits in the early 2000s in the UK.

How are you this dense?

Who cares about the states and when K-pop hit there? Has no relevance to my post at all. Typical yank, thinking everything has to be about you.

You said “about a half dozen” r33. What’s a half dozen? Let’s see if you know.

Ain’t no funeral like an S club funeral!

What's the story behind his money troubles? Scammed by someone he trusted? Drugs?

R33 something can’t be attempting to be something that wasn’t a thing yet. KPop wasn’t a think in the UK or USA in 2000

Thing*

If the funeral doesn't include an S Club 6 performance, don't hold it.

K-pop started in 1996. Just because you didn’t know what it was at the time doesn’t mean music execs in Britain didn’t. It was considered catchy and wholesome and that’s what S-Club was like. My point was they shared those similarities.

R36 Their manager (Simon Fuller) basically got them to sign a contract that meant he got pretty much most of the money the band made. They were on about £150,000 a year and that's it. Which was a lot of money then for a young person but wasn't going to make them millionaires.

R40 again, it was not a thing in the UK or USA. That doesn’t mean there weren’t some people who liked it, but it wasn’t popular. It wasn’t charting. It was one of those things

And I never stated that. Reread my original post. You keep putting forward arguments that are made up in your head. I never mentioned charting, popularity or any such shit. I just said that in my opinion they were more like a K-pop band.

My favorite hit of theirs is Tearin' Up My Heart

They kind of reminded me of the spice girls the way they were all supposed to be playing a role.

R42 Seek help

R45 correct

R46 you asked a question about Emilio Estevez two weeks ago on a thread and received an answer. Two weeks later you make a thread asking the same question.

You compare them to KPop when that wasn’t even a thing in 2000 UK, and then make a separate thread about KPop. But I need the help? Time for some self-evaluating from you.

R45 what persona role did each play? Specifically interested in the 3 males.

R49 I don’t really remember. I was a teen when their show came out and I remember thinking that at the time. I watched a few episodes but wasn’t into them.

R48 You are severely mistaken - check your records, most certainly not me

Poor R48. Getting a few different posters all mixed together. I’m the one who brought up K-pop but I have mentioned Emilio Estavez or told you to seek help.

(However, I now do agree that you should seek help because you seem very confused.)

Sorry. That should say I have NOT mentioned Emilio.

Photographed the day before his death, seemingly in good spirits:

R52 nope. It’s all coming from the same place buddy.

The temperature is getting hot in here.

Everyone take a breath,

R55 You poor thing

The way I remember it, R49, was that Paul was the put upon one of the guys, Jon was the boyish one and Bradley was the (mild) schemer.

I will admit that I loved the S Club 7 show on Fox Family. It was cheesy fun and I liked the show a lot more than the Olsen twins show that was on around the same time.

A fairly attractive man in his 40s with no wives or kids? I'm getting a 'kept pass-around bottom' vibe from him. I know the type: always looking for a papa bear sugardaddy. Charming, passive-aggressive, only ambition is to be kept.

[quote] Paul Cattermole

'Catter' is an ugly verb. 'Mole' is an ugly animal.

'Cattermole' is a VERY unappealing surname.

It MUST be changed!

I'm so glad I don't live whatever life created that mindset of yours, R60.

They were the first CD I ever bought.

He was never pretty, was he?

2019 interview

R21 there wasn’t a mixed group that took off in the US so what else is there to compare them to besides *NSYNC and 98 degrees etc . I’m sorry if I offended you or anybody for not clarifying that S Club 7 aren’t specifically a boy band and I assure you that I knew this already.

The band was insanely successful, a money making machine. Not for the band themselves, just for the management and the record company. They were worked like dogs. One of them said later, after her years in SClub she came out of it about half a million.

R62 same. I read that and actually got a headache.

I didn’t realise how many S Club TV series there were.

The final one was Viva S Club - I looked at IMDB to see if it was actually filmed in Barcelona and spotted it’s listed as Carlos Cuevas (from Merlí and Smiley) first credit.

Don't want to link to the Daily Mail, but they're claiming that the S Club reunion tour will still go ahead.

Sad 😞

Another BOSSY BOTTOM bites the dust.

I hope it wasn’t suicide

"Love Train" by S Club 7 is on the GapKids July 2001 In-Store Playlist!

There can be strength in expressing vulnerability but... he paraded desperation when he said he had to borrow a shirt from the producers of Loose Women. The Tarot thing... total grift. There was deep cynicism there.

The Venga Boys were mixed boy and girl but their music was much better

The venga boys had one hit song. Hardly comparable.

[quote]They were like a British attempt at K-Pop.

????

At J-Pop? Korean pop wasn't a thing until recently. All of that is stolen from Japan

I'd forgotten the Vengaboys! They were a total Aqua rip-off. "Up and Down", "We Like to Party" and "Boom Boom Boom Boom" were all essentially the same song repackaged.

Sorry R77 but K-Pop was around in the 90s. Google is your friend.

R79 but not in Europe or America.

R80 Lol. So you think no one in the music industry outside Korea was aware of it? No one looked overseas and saw catchy, over produced, wholesome teen groups with great choreography and thought “Let’s try this here in Britain?”

R81 who said anything about awareness?

Is it because he was fat?

R79 Why would you say you were sorry? Weird.

Sorry I had to correct your wrong assumption.

R85 Not mine - you were speaking to another!

Well he was no Kim Carnes that’s for sure!

Quite big tits

R41 I don't really understand the entitlement they seemed to have about being millionaires. Hannah did an interview a few weeks ago whining about being poor.

£150,000 a year was a LOT of money for the years they were active. They could have bought London property and become millionaires through that, given how much house prices have increased. They could have invested. They could have retrained and gone into other careers. Being in a pop group for a few years in your 20s doesn't entitle you to lifelong wealth and work in the music industry. It's not like they were so incredibly famous that living normal lives would have been impossible.

R89 I think they have a right to be annoyed if they were only making a small percentage of the income they generated.

However, Hannah has had a solid but not great acting career in the 20 years since so I'm shocked she's broke.

Didn't Hannah have a TV show that ran for at least five years? I know actors in the UK don't get the big paychecks of Hollywood but still... living in an office over the Christmas period? I suspect a lot of money went up their noses.

R89 A bit unrealistic. They were young and entertainers, not property investors or entrepreneurs. I think Fuller did do them dirty; he took advantage of their youth and lack of money savvy by taking most of the money. Fuller is estimated to be worth a ginormous $650m.

Fuller definitely took advantage but I'm not sure that Paul or Hannah (or Tina) deserve to be all that rich either, as their contribution to the songs was negligible. Jo O'Meara carried that band, with help from Bradley, Rachel and Jon.

Jo got canceled for participating in the group bullying of a castmate on Celebrity Big Brother UK in 2007. She was so hated after the show that she got death threats and got hit in the head with a bottle while performing at a club.

R94 Served her right. That whole Big Brother incident showed what a truly vile person she is. Along with Jade Goody (who thankfully died from cervical cancer 2 years later, sparing the world anymore of her obnoxiousness) it highlighted the problem with making ugly people famous.

[quote] Quite big tits

Not as big as Jo's.

He was a bit of shit psychic wasn’t he?

*a bit of a shit psychic

[will we ever get an edit option?]

Hannah was on all five seasons of PRIMEVAL, along with Andrew Lee Potts.

Where did that money go since 2011?

Must have been an OD.

Theories: what if they didn't want him for the reunion after all? Maybe he got his hopes up high only to find out that he wasn't included. Summarizing the thread so far, he was sometimes awkward, shy, fat, maybe an addict. Not someone you want to rely on for a tour, and not a crowd magnet. (I never heard of him or the band before. What a pity. 46 is too young to go for anyone.)

Morbid, but I just realised three early 2000s British popstars have died within less than two years: Sarah Harding (cancer), Darius Danesh (accidental overdose) & Paul. There's also Aaron Carter over in America.

R95 No matter how horrible that incident was, it is nothing compared to your vile post. Celebrating a young woman’s death from cancer is really low even on here, but I suspect not for you. You need praying for you vile piece of shit.

R103 You're right, I'm sorry. She of course deserved an even worse, more painful death.

R49 It’s been years but from west I remember:

Bradley was the energetic entertainer. Always down to party. In the TV show he was the comic relief, often playing the fool.

Jon wore his heart on a sleeve with boyish charm. The show had him go on B adventures from a series of fortunate events.

Paul was the realist. Always grounded. He was default father figure of the group and would spearhead them through any shenanigans on the show. He also was lead vocals on some of their early songs.

As for the girls:

Jo was the tough, tomboyish one. TV character was cynical and met any challenge with a groan and snark. Despite her chilly exterior she was always ready to fight for her friends.

Hanna was bubbly optimistic. The show also cast her as comic relief, like Bradley, because of how naive she was about the real world.

Rachel was the sexy one with a sultry voice. Her storylines were always about dating throwaway men before dumping them by the end of the episode.

Tina was the supermodel fashionista. Always wearing the lasted styles and trends. As you can imagine they didn’t give her much of a personality. She was always down to party and was the most sociable on the show.

I was obsessed as a kid but that was so long ago. Might gotten a few things wrong.

R105 This would've been easier:

Tina's doing her dance

Jon's looking for romance

Paul's getting down on the floor

While Hannah's screaming out for more (ooh hoo!)

Wanna see Bradley swing

Wanna see Rachel do her thing

Then we got Jo, she's got the flow

Get ready everybody 'cos here we go!

R104 My apologies for engaging with you, I only just found out that you are the troll being discussed and blocked by numerous members over on another thread. Good look with the meth and crack addiction.

What other thread R107 ?

How did Darius Danesh? Did he kill himself?

[quote] Former Pop Idol star Darius Campbell Danesh died from “inhalation of chloroethane,” a medical examiner's office has confirmed.

And they’re saying it was accidental? How do you accidentally inhale gas?

Never mind, it was drugs.

[quote] you, I only just found out that you are the troll being discussed and blocked by numerous members over on another thread

Anyone know what thread R107 is referring to?

Any updates

R107 WHAT THREAD?

He was fat anyway.

Darius was undergoing treatment for back pain due to an earlier car accident?

R106 Wins this thread entirely.

Was Darius a former member of S Club 7?

No. Darius was a solo pop star, briefly. He came to fame on the original Pop Idol/Popstars show, where he auditioned, looking like an oily waiter, with a Jazzy rendition (complete with spoken word ending) of Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time." He ultimately found some success in musical theatre. He played Nicky Arnstein in the London revival of "Funny Girl."

Died of 'natural causes' according to the coroner's office so there won't be an inquest. At 46 that seems unusual to me.

[quote]A spokesperson for Dorset Coroner's Office said: "We confirm that Mr Cattermole died from natural causes and our investigations have concluded. "As his death was from natural causes there will be no inquest."

The anti-vax crowd is crowing over that, R120.

I'm glad it wasn't suicide or an accidental OD. I thought it would turn out to be one of those two option, frankly.

Rightfully so, r121. A 46 year old just randomly dying is concerning. What were the natural causes? We only heard about it because he was in a pop band. Is this happening more frequently now? And was he vaxed, was it with Astra or which one?

What happened to his looks, which died a decade before him? Meds? Overeating? Whatever had happened to them, I’m not sure even getting back in shape would have revived them. It was as if his features kept growing.

I think it's mostly the greying/white hair plus weight gain that made him look a lot older than the other band members.

All I remember about these people is that Matthew Leitch--the bloke who played Stewart on Nickelodeon's 'Renford Rejects' and Talbert in 'Band of Brothers'--went out with Hannah Spearritt for a few years, back when they were both still sort of famous.

Honestly, I'd assumed Leitch was gay or bi-leaning gay, he comes across like a posh toff queen. He's even played gay intimacy and explicit sex on screen a couple of times. But he's actually got a kid with a woman and has only dated women.

R122, my first thought when I heard "natural causes" was that his heart gave out after years of drug use. Depressing, but quite possibly true. The fact that he couldn't afford a decent shirt for a Loose Women interview screams "addict" to me.

I mean, if he was dirt broke, he probably wasn't taking care of his health. Eating crap, etc.

I didn't think (assume) drug use. I thought clogged arteries.

I have no idea who this person is, but he is a hard looking 46 years old. That's still young to die. RIP.

46? I'd guess his age was around 61.

It's BAS, r129. British Aging Syndrome.