Pussycat Dolls set to embark on tour and record new material for reunion, says band member Kimberly Wyatt
THE Pussycat Dolls are set to embark on a tour and record new material, band member Kimberly Wyatt predicts.
She told the Sun’s Bizarre column “it’s now or never” for the band fronted by X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger, 39, who announced they were reuniting in October.
Kimberly, 36, says the Dolls have been in discussions and are very close to announcing their plans.
Speaking at Shelter's Vertical Rush event at Tower 42 earlier yesterday, she said: “We've been talking but everybody has their own lives and own agendas and things. Most of everybody's on board. There's still a few steps to be taken to make it happen.
“We are all just in a place in our lives where we've been off on our own adventures and now we'd like to get on stage and have fun.
“It could be a tour, it could be a TV show, it could be new music, it could be a lot of things. It could be big work shops. Everything and anything that would help spread the message and help make a difference. A real difference to women and boys.”
The Dolls confirmed the Sun’s story the band were to make a comeback in October.
They set up a website entitled PCD Reunion to keep fans in the loop after their split in 2010 when things in the band soured.
An Instagram account has also been set up in the same name.
Carmit Bachar left the group in 2008 leaving Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta, Melody Thornton, Kimberly and Nicole.
Kimberly said: “I know most of the girls are 100 per cent on board and want to make it happen. But everybody's got to be on board.
“This is the year of women. This is the year of female empowerment and I feel that from the moment I stepped on stage for the first time with the Dolls and Pink was performing with us and Carmen Electra and I was next to my best friend Ashley Roberts in my stilettos and fish nets and when that curtain opened I felt the most empowered.
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“It was the most I'd owned my space and sexuality and my femaleness ever before. And they gave me so much confidence to know that I can own that and I don't have to be afraid of someone taking that away.
“As long as I own my space and stand for what I stand for and I have good morals and I try and do good in the world. Pussycat Dolls really instilled a real confidence in me.
“Pussycat Dolls hasn't always been seen as female empowerment which is a real shame which is why I say now or never. Because I think that message needs to be spread but needs to be spread in a way I fell in love with the group."