My child was in a S Club Juniors, ask me anything

[BeEagerEagle]

In 2001, my child auditioned for a CBBC show called ‘S Club Search’ and got a place in a child pop group who initially were meant to support S Club 7 on a one time support gig basis. This band was called S Club Juniors, later known as S Club 8.

The band ended up taking off and we basically had to sign or children away to Simon Fuller’s management to release a single. The kids were given tutors and chaperones, and spent most of their time in hotels (the ones London based stayed either their parents) or on the road. After that, they went on tour and I only saw my child once every couple of months. It was brutal but I knew that’s what they wanted to do.

they released two albums and the second one didn’t do that well, Simon Fuller tried them on a TV show called I Dream, however that also tanked. My child will admit that themselves. They all got dropped when aged 14-17. He said they had grown out of their roles a bit.

Now they are in their late thirties and trying to get back into the entertainment industry fully but it’s difficult. They’ve never quite got over their time in the band. They released music but it never really went anywhere. They would never say so, but it doesn’t help them that two of their fellow band members went on to become big stars, both were in a chart topping girl band and now are TV presenters.

their band (minus the two still-successful members) were meant to reunite for a TV show a long while ago, but for various reasons it didn’t happen. When S Club reunited, S Club juniors didn’t get asked to reunite as there was ‘no call’ for it and only a few were up for reuniting. (My child, and another boy and girl member)

they are still acquaintances with S club 7 and went to Paul Cattermoles funeral.

I know my (now adult) child doesn’t regret the choices they made as a child, but feels sad as an adult.

AMA- child (now adult) is also here to answer questions too and is happy to answer questions about specific members and music!

It was v detailed mebbe an extended family member or school friend of one of the members The OP before deleting their insta looked late thirties early forties either way troll or not think it’s time fkr other poster (not you) 2 let it go

I actually don't think it was that detailed. Not much was news to me who used to follow the band closely when I was young, a lot of the facts were from interviews and things like that.

Other things were likely educated guesses.

Ok well as I said PP shouldn’t be tracking down private sm

Oh yeah, I absolutely agree.

Yes, that was very weird.

Although the whole thing is!

Oh no gutted this wasn’t real! Don’t think I will trust AMA again, this was really weird.

@MNHQ please could this be checked or potentially taken down? There’s quite a bit of detail the OP has gone into, including accusing a member of a boy band of texting an underage girl.

texting thing was from A CBBC interview thing OP posted it here Stacey and boy out blazin squad

Oh really? I was assuming it was all made up, but clearly they must be a super fan.

dunno but it’s called “s club 8 on the spot” on a YouTube account called em4ronaldo

Still can't get over this thread 😂

Same 🤣 I read something about s club 8 the other day and remembered this thread. Still can’t believe it never got closed.

Right?? I thought the same thing.
Maybe MNHQ just think it's too much of a roller coaster thrill ride to deprive their users of it. 😂

Same! Something made me think of this thread the other day. It was very enjoyable even if the op was not who they said they were. I learned a ton about S Club Juniors. 😂

I remember this thread. I didn’t realise OP was lying, how did they get caught out?

I think they shared a link to a video on Instagram or TikTok and it linked to the OP’s page. Like it said it had been shared by whatever their real identity was and not a SClub member. They tried to back peddle then went silent. I’d love to know what an actual S Club Junior member thought of this!

I loved them.were you worried about abuse?

I actually think about this thread on a regular basis it’s so funny

I thought it was total BS straight out of the gate so possibly never got to luxuriate in the absurdity of it because I was rolling my eyes too much.

How did you spot it was fake?

I was pretty suspicious from the start but played along. I was a massive fan of them growing up and found it hard to believe that they all had a group chat to this day and were happy to answer questions, they also only talked about things that massive fans growing up would know anyway that came from interviews that anyone can remember or look up or make educated guesses about.

If nothing else, I really enjoyed this thread because I learned a lot of stuff I didn't know. I was a fan of their music but clearly didn't follow interviews closely enough as it was mostly new to me. At least I got to learn about it from OP..

I do have to confess, as naïve as this makes me, that there's a little part of me that wants to think maybe it was real and there's a perfectly reasonable explanation - like the Instagram link was copied from someone else and they didn't want to reveal their identity so deleted it and left, but I know it doesn't really make sense.