From pop star to 'homeless'… The story of Hannah Spearrit from 'S Club 7'

It's not like Hannah Spearritt is living on the streets... but, as she has explained to The Sun, her financial situation is suffocating. The life of the 'S Club 7' member looks more like the one of a homeless person than a pop star. In the Sun interview, Spearritt confessed that she lives in offices and other empty spaces that friends and family have offered her.

(In the picture, Hannah Spearritt in 2004.)

Hannah Spearritt was a member of 'S Club 7', a teen band that was world famous at the beginning of the 21st century.

More than two decades later, Hannah Spearritt shared her truth with The Sun and gave details of her complicated economic and family situation. She also complained about how little help she received from the British Housing System.

The singer and her family were forced to leave their home in London when they didn't have access to another house. It forced them to move to an empty office space a friend had lent them.

Picture: @hannahspearritt / Instagram

She explained that "our landlord needed the money and the property sold so fast." At first, they had two months to find another place, but then the house sold in two days and they had to leave with nowhere to go.

The problem for Hannah Spearritt and her husband was that the advances people were asking for, in order to rent out their properties, were "crazy and extortionate." The former pop star explains that they needed 6,000 pounds up-front for the rent and neither she nor her husband had that money.

Thankfully, one of their friends came to the rescue and offered them an office to stay. The couple moved all their stuff and furniture into an empty space they had for a new café they wanted to open and transformed the office into a living room. "We could work in there and the kids played," she said. "It was extra space."

"It was fun for the kids. It was stressful but you deal with it, don't you? Especially with the kids. Whatever doesn't kill you, as they say..."

Hannah Spearritt and her family had to live in temporary spaces for months: "We still have nowhere to live."

To make things even worse, Hannah was bedridden due to an illness. She and her husband had to stop working on their new business venture: a café called 'Earth & Fire'.

It's hard to believe that the singer has reached this bad economic state after being one of the members of a global success like 'S Club 7'.

The reality is shocking: "People think we must all be millionaires but sadly it's just not true. It was what it was, and we enjoyed ourselves at the time."

Just for context: 'S Club 7' sold 14 million copies in the whole world between 1999 and 2003. But that wasn't all, the band was part of different TV shows, TV specials, and a movie called 'Seeing Double' (2003).

According to The Sun, at the peak of their career, the band generated 50 million pounds a year. However, Hannah Spearritt states that, at the time, she was only receiving 150.000 per year.

Coincidentally, Paul Cattermole (posing on the right side of the photo), who was Hannah's 'S Club 7' colleague and husband from 2001 to 2006, complained about the same situation and even said he had to sell his Brit Award on eBay.

A big shock came on April 6, 2023, when Paul Cattermole was found dead in his home. He was 46 years old. The police did not treat his death as suspicious. It is not clear what happened - whether he passed away from natural causes or took his own life.

Meanwhile, as The Sun points out, the creator of the band and other groups like 'Spice Girls' and the TV show 'American Idol', Simon Fuller, has a net worth of 445 million pounds.

It's worth mentioning that Hannah Spearritt is a member of 'S Club 7' with significantly more presence and projects on television than the rest of the former band members. Still, she is in a concerning economic situation.

Picture: @hannahspearritt / Instagram

Spearritt worked in different movies like 'Seed of Chucky' and 'Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London' in 2004, as well as TV series like 'Blessed' (2005), 'Primeval' (2007-2011), 'Casualty' (2016), and 'EastEnders' (2017-2018).