She Doesn't Need Me To Tell Her The Story.

She was there!

https://news.sky.com/story/s-club-7-singer-hannah-spearitt-reveals-homeless-struggles-people-think-we-must-all-be-millionaires-but-sadly-its-just-not-true-12797297

All I can do is reassure her.

That no. We won't ever be letting him live that down.

Part of which is me now telling everybody the story.

One day I had a really bad cold. So by 5pm I was already in bed. The only thing stopping me from sleeping was the imminent sensation that I was going to vomit, at any moment.

A friend of mine came round asking if I could go with him to help recover a debt.

I explained to him that was really the last thing I wanted to be doing.

However he kept begging. Explaining how if the debt wasn't collected the rent couldn't be paid. The children and the pets would all be out starving on the streets. 

So I eventually agreed to help him.

Now this guy had had the situation explained to him on the phone, quite a few times. The sight of us turning up at his place to business helped to focus his mind. He paid up immediately. It turns out he was just being a dick about it. 

By way of an apology he invited us to join a table right by the stage. To enjoy, for free, the magic/cabaret show that was about to start.

Walking up to this table I looked at the blonde woman sitting there and thought; "Hmm. She looks a bit like Hannah from S Club 7."

When she said; "Hi, I'm Hannah."

I thought to myself; "Oh fff-dear!"

We then did the usual preliminaries whenever a group of strangers are gathered in a social situation in Britain. What's your name? What do you do? How do you know such-and-such?

All waiting for the moment for when it would be the turn of the celebrity. The person whose name we all knew, due to what she did.

The problem was that my friend had been off on his travels for the entire time S Club 7 had been famous. So genuinely had absolutely no idea who she was.

So when she said that she primarily thought of herself as a singer and a dancer. Although she was trying to break into acting.

He immediately started talking to her as if she was some newbie. Freshly arrived in the big city. Hoping to break into showbiz.

He then JUST KEPT GOING!!!!

Completely oblivious to all of the stunned looks. Not just from the people around the table. From all the people in the entire venue.

By this point no-one was watching what was happening on the stage.

This was far more entertaining.

After about an hour I gave up and went home. To spend the rest of the night puking up green vomit.

I do remember that while later explaining to him what a fool he'd made of himself. I pointed out that what she was going to do now that her pop career had ended was actually a really delicate subject.

It had just been in the papers that one of her bandmates, Jo O'Meara, had gone bankrupt.