‘NO ONE CAN ever prepare you for what it’s going to be like,’ Kerry Katona, who joined Atomic Kitten with Natasha Hamilton and Liz McClarnon when she was 18, tells Grazia. ‘I just wanted to be famous for making people happy. When you’re a teenager looking at pop stars in Smash Hits, you don’t see the intrusiveness or that side of fame.’
Girlbands Forever, Louis Theroux’s three-part BBC docuseries, airs on 1 November, hot on the heels of sister series Boybands Forever. It charts the rise, fall and turbulent middle act of the ’90s, noughties and early 2010s girlband era. From Eternal, All Saints and the Spice Girls to Atomic Kitten, Sugababes, Mis-Teeq and Little Mix, the documentary reveals the smorgasbord of maltreatment that young, female band members endured.
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