Paul Cattermole found stardom with 90s pop kids S Club 7, but says being in the band brought him only pain and poverty
Paul Cattermole is explaining what it’s like to be famous. “I’ve been on stage and seen a bra swirling in the air, coming to land on my head,” he says. “I tended to duck out of the way.” He chuckles at the memory – surreal now, 20 years later, as he sits, untroubled by undergarments. “I’m not saying it happens all the time, because it doesn’t. But it has happened.”
At the turn of the millennium, Cattermole, 42, was one-seventh of a famous whole. S Club 7 were presented to the world by impresario Simon Fuller – looking to repeat his success with the Spice Girls – as a fully formed pop package: four girls, three boys, singing, dancing, acting. (The “S” is rumoured to stand for “Simon”.)