{"id":496007,"date":"2026-03-26T07:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496007\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:35:14","slug":"ex-pussycat-dolls-member-says-she-was-excluded-from-reunion-tour-due-to-her-aligning-with-maga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496007\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Pussycat Dolls member says she was excluded from reunion tour due to her “aligning with MAGA”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessica Sutta, a former member of The Pussycat Dolls<\/a>, has said she was left out of the group\u2019s upcoming reunion due to her support of RFK Jr.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Don\u2019t Cha\u2019 girl group announced earlier this month that they had reformed as a trio<\/a>,\u00a0with Nicole Scherzinger<\/a>, Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt, as part of a 20 year celebration of their debut album \u2018PCD\u2019.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the announcement, original member Carmir Bachar \u2013 who was part of the first line-up alongside Scherzinger, Roberts, Wyatt, 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

Now, Sutta has also spoken out about being excluded, saying she was \u201cblindsided\u201d by the news and\u00a0saying that she thinks it\u2019s due to her backing of Kennedy, the controversial U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, who she affectionately refers to as \u201cBobby.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a liability,\u201d Sutta said in a new interview on The Maverick Approach podcast. \u201cI align with Bobby Kennedy, which is aligning with MAGA.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I love what Trump is doing? Absolutely not. I do not believe in war. But we didn\u2019t have a chance for the [vaccine] injured community to get help without him,\u201d she added. \u201cEven though he doesn\u2019t want us to exist, by the way. People are screaming at me, \u2018You\u2019re MAGA, you\u2019re MAGA.\u2019 Yeah, I am. I triple down on it because I\u2019m so sick of people telling me who I should be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It comes after Sutta claimed last year to the Daily Mail<\/a> that she suffers from chronic fatigue and muscle pain, among other medical issues, after receiving a second dose of the Moderna COVID vaccine in 2021.<\/p>\n

She went on to call Kennedy \u201cselfless\u201d and a \u201cwonderful human being,\u201d and added that she helped him with his 2024 presidential election campaign, speaking at some events and publicly endorsing him, and noted that it was \u201cbittersweet\u201d when he dropped out of the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to see him as president,\u201d Sutta said. \u201cI think he\u2019s an amazing human. I think he\u2019s too good to be president though. He has too big of a heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it came to her feelings about being left out of the Pussycat Dolls, Sutta said she was particularly upset with the group\u2019s founder Robin Antin, who she claimed she had been trying to reach for months after hearing rumors of a possible reunion.<\/p>\n

As for Scherzinger, Sutta said she gave her a call the day the announcement was made, but she \u201cdidn\u2019t answer\u201d the phone. \u201cI don\u2019t plan to call her back. I love Nicole, this is very bittersweet for me. I respect her as an artist. I even cried of joy when she won her Tony [for Sunset Boulevard] just recently\u2026 I definitely was rooting for her, but this showed me exactly why I\u2019m not in the group. They showed exactly to me who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reformed members recently spoke about the claims from Bachar, and said that not inviting original members on their upcoming reunion tour was to \u201cprotect our peace\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The group will hit the road for a 53-date tour kicking off in North America in June with\u00a0Lil\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\u00a0BBC 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":"Jessica Sutta, a former member of The Pussycat Dolls, has said she was left out of the group\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,1581,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-496007","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\/496007","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=496007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}