Hannah Spearritt, who found fame as a member of British pop group S Club 7, has revealed she is now homeless and forced to sleep in an office with her two young children.
The singer, 41, told the Sun that she, her partner Adam Thomas, 42, and their two daughters, Thea, four, and Tora, two, were given just two days to find a place to live after being notified eviction by their owner. Christmas.
The eviction forced Spearritt to ask friends for a favor after she and Thomas were told to either come up with a “crazy” $10,400 down payment on a short-term rental or leave.
“What spoiled us is that we didn’t have time to find another place,” he told the report. “We had somewhere for Christmas, but time ran out before we could move.”
“It’s only been a few weeks. We filled the closed cafe with our belongings—we were so lucky to have that storage space—but we had nowhere to go.”
Spearritt, whose band earned $85 million in the late 90s and early 2000s, insists she was not paid a fair amount compared to the revenue the band was making.
“People think we should all be millionaires, but unfortunately that’s not true,” Spearritt explained. “It was what it was and we enjoyed it at the time.”
The fellow singer added: “S Club 7 manager Simon Fuller has done well for himself hasn’t he?”
Fuller, who also manages the Spice Girls, is worth an estimated $600 million.
Meanwhile, Spearritt, who reportedly earned a salary of $190,000 a year during her time with the team, revealed that she and her family are now sleeping in a friend’s business building – and using the office space as a living room.
“The children’s beds were there and we took out the crayons. It was stressful,” he added.
Adding injury to injury, Spearritt has also been bedridden due to a recent illness – making their current living situation even more difficult.
The couple also had plans to open their own cafe, however, they were forced to put the brakes on their business ventures after the eviction.
S Club 7 dominated the pop charts from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. The group’s most popular hits include “Don’t Stop Movin'”, “Bring It All Back” and “Have You Ever”.
The band won “Best Breakthrough Band” at the annual BRIT Awards in 2000 and launched a US TV show in 1999.
