Kevin Simm: Last News

They may have been runners-up to Hear’Say in the Popstars TV, but Liberty X went on to have phenomenal chart success following the TV talent contest back in 2001.Together Tony Lundon, Kevin Simm, Michelle Heaton, Jessica Taylor and Kelli Young recorded three albums, scored ten consecutive top ten singles in the UK and sold three million records across the world.Their biggest hit, Just A Little, shot to number one in 2002 and the five-piece toured extensively, winning a huge army of fans across Europe as well as winning two Brit Awards for Best British Single and Best British Breakthrough Artist. The group called it a day and went their separate ways in 2007, reuniting occasionally for one-off shows.  After reforming for ITV2’s The Big Reunion in 2012, they went on an arena tour with fellow pop artists including Atomic Kitten, Five and B*Witched.

Wet Wet Wet are locked in a battle over the band’s legacy, with its original members now talking through legal representatives.

Michelle Heaton is the latest celebrity to be confirmed for Dancing On Ice 2023. The TV personality and former Liberty X star, 43, was revealed to be joining the line-up on ITV’s Lorraine on Monday morning. She told host Lorraine Kelly: “I’m so excited – I can’t believe it.

Michelle Heaton has shared a Liberty X throwback marking 20 years since the group’s first number one single, Just a Little. The record was released on 13 May 2002 on the group’s debut album Thinking it Over and became one Liberty X’s most successful tracks. As well as reaching number one in the UK, it was well-received abroad and appeared in the top 10 in Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands and New Zealand.

The Voice UK first came to screens in 2011 on BBC One.Three years into the hit series, Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson joined as a coach.The 43-year-old was the winning panellist for two years in a row with stars Stevie McCrorie and Kevin Simm, before the show moved to ITV.Speaking to Express.co.uk, the singer said he is keen to go back on the show after being replaced.He spilled: "It's good fun being put into that world, it's a world I still find fascinating, the TV world."I'll always be the first to arrive and the last to leave because I wanted to soak up as much of it as possible."I'm just waiting for someone to drop out so I can march into ITV and say, 'Stick me back on'."Rod Stewart breaks silence as bandmate Robin Le Mesurier

Wet Wet Wet star Marti Pellow has given his former band his blessing after they replaced him with a new frontman, saying: “Life's too short.”

Liberty X star Kevin Simm has called for less stigma surrounding hair loss following his own hair transplant.

direct to your inboxFormer Liberty X singer Kevin Simm has opened up about undergoing a hair transplant.The 40-year-old father of two, from Chorley, Lancashire, underwent a Juvida hair transplant two years ago, and has now revealed the impact hair loss had on his mental health.Kevin, who won The Voice UK and is now the frontman for the Wet Wet Wet supergroup, spoke out after a report 'The Bald Truth About Mental', commissioned by Juvida, discovered the impact of going bald on male wellbeing."There's a real stigma around hair loss and other men in particular make fun of it.