{"id":487803,"date":"2026-03-21T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487803\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:59:07","slug":"the-pussycat-dolls-say-not-inviting-former-members-on-reunion-tour-was-to-protect-our-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487803\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pussycat Dolls say not inviting former members on reunion tour was to “protect our peace”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pussycat Dolls<\/a> have said that not inviting original members on their upcoming reunion tour was to \u201cprotect our peace\u201d.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Don\u2019t Cha\u2019 girl group\u00a0announced earlier this month that they had reformed as a trio<\/a>, with\u00a0Nicole Scherzinger<\/a>, Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt, as part of a 20 year celebration of their debut album \u2018PCD\u2019.<\/p>\n

However, original member Carmir Bachar \u2013 who was part of the first line-up alongside Scherzinger, Roberts, Wyatt, Jessica Sutta and Melody Thornton \u2013 alleged that she was not included in the reunion and that she learned of the plans \u201cat the same time as the public.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Bachar continued to say that she wishes she had been directly contacted regarding the reunion \u201cgiven [her] history with the brand\u201d and that this is \u201cdisappointing on a personal level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, the rest of the group has responded in an awkward interview on the Today Show, where Scherzinger, Wyatt and Roberts were asked why their former bandmate hadn\u2019t been included in the comeback.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I mean, listen. We are just, so, as women today \u2026,\u201d Scherzinger began, struggling to find a response.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, it has been an ever-changing line-up, and this is what it looks like now in 2026,\u201d Wyatt jumped in. \u201cYou never know what comes next. Ultimately, we\u2019ve got to protect our peace, and when something like The Pussycat Dolls has so much history\u2026 we have ruptured in the past, and right now we are repairing, and we\u2019re sort of on the same page with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scherzinger then added: \u201cBut what I wanted to say is, we have so much love and respect for all of the women that have been part of the PCD legacy. Once a Doll, always a Doll.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the clip below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The group will hit the road for a 53-date tour kicking off in North America in June with Lil\u2019 Kim<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Mya<\/a>\u00a0before hitting the UK and Ireland for nine dates in September with Kim as support.<\/p>\n

These will include shows in Birmingham, Nottingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Dublin, Glasgow, Newcastle and Manchester, before the tour concludes with a date at London\u2019s O2 Arena on October 13.<\/p>\n

Tickets will go on general sale at 10am local time worldwide on Friday, March 20 and can be purchased in the UK\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and US\u00a0here<\/a>. Fans can sign up for pre-sale tickets\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0by Monday, March 16 before they go on sale at 9am local time on Wednesday, March 18. You can\u00a0find a full list of dates here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The girl group have also shared new single \u2018Club Song\u2019 the first new material since 2019\u2019s \u2018React\u2019. It is produced by Mike Sabbath (RAYE<\/a>,\u00a0Jade<\/a>) and written by Scherzinger with Sabbath, Caroline Ailin (Dua Lipa<\/a>) and Solly (Teddy Swims<\/a>). Listen to it below.<\/p>\n

The band have also announced a deluxe edition of their 2005 debut album on vinyl and digital with new and unreleased tracks on May 8. You can pre-order it\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The group announced their\u00a0reunion<\/a>\u00a0in 2019 and were set to head out on a run of UK and Ireland dates, but\u00a0COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0legal dispute halted their plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of the reunion, Scherzinger told BBC News<\/a>: \u201cAfter 20 years, you\u2019re like, \u2018Where is everybody?\u2019 But for us, it aligned. People are in different places in their lives, some of the other people have different commitments and priorities, but this worked out for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roberts explained it was Scherzinger who first \u201creached out\u201d to the other Dolls about reuniting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had some conversations, and we were just like, \u2018We\u2019re on the same page, we\u2019re excited about embracing where we\u2019re at now as women and celebrating that\u2019,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just really excited to get back on stage and swing these hips around in some latex, hun!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pussycat Dolls have said that not inviting original members on their upcoming reunion tour was to \u201cprotect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,1581,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-487803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}