The girls are celebrating their first ever UK number one, their return from shooting their E! reality TV show Chasing The Saturdays and Rochelle being a mum-to-be… so what better place to start the party than Ireland’s fair city?
The Saturdays minus Rochelle took to the stage last night at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, smashing a sell-out gig for thousands in Dublin, all in the name fo charity.
But first the girls took time out to speak to Her.ie about babies, dirty nappies, their first ever number one What About Us feat. Sean Paul and Molly’s much-speculated relationship with Prince Harry.
“We’re four fifths of The Saturdays this evening,” Tipperary singer Una Healy says as the four girls make themselves comfortable. Styled in red, black and cream for the night, it was Mollie’s stand-out gold skater skirt that we were coveting.
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The missing face of the evening was Rochelle Humes, married to JLS’s Marvin Humes, who is relaxing at home in the UK for the last couple of days before the star couple’s first baby is expected.
Rochelle is still working with the girls but is taking a well-earned maternity leave.
“It’s weird there only being four of us,” Una says, “She still has to have the baby but she’s at that point, and I was there too before, that you just can’t be on stage any longer. It does feel strange when any one of us is missing.”
“She’s still doing a lot of stuff with us,” Frankie says, “just not the performances.”
But the girls promise she’ll be back soon…
“After the baby is born!”, Una laughs, “Soon we’d say. After Aoife Belle I did feel like I just missed the group, you don’t want to see the band without you and the girls want you there too.”
After congratulating Una on having the cutest baby on Twitter (a fair enough accolade, we think), we asked her what kind of advice will she have for Rochelle on balancing motherhood and a non-stop music career?
Una and husband Ben with Aoife Belle on her first birthday.
“Well, I’m still learning,” Una says, “I still feel like a new mum. When Aoife was born, neither myself or Ben had ever changed a nappy, I still feel new to it all. Rochelle will have seen how I did it and she’ll adapt whichever way she can best balance herself too.”
The girls are certain Aoife Belle and Rochelle’s baby-to-be will be friends, but rumours are rife Una could provide the two with another playmate soon.
“No, no, definitely not,” she laughs, “We do want to have a second one, a couple more actually, but not in the near future, definitely not!”
“We’re always asking what’s next”, Frankie says, “When are you getting married? Right, that’s done, when are you going to have a kid, right, now when’s the next one coming?!”
Mollie and Una looking as gorgeous as ever on stage last night.
While babies are on the agenda, the other girls have no intentions of becoming new mums anytime soon.
Frankie and Vanessa shake their heads and Mollie says she’s still looking for the right guy.
“I did love the American men, but I love the Irish men too… The Irish accent is one of my favourites, I’m always trying to copy Una,” she says, “But I’m waiting for the right man to come to me, he should be the one to ask me out.”
So, there’s no love a-kindling with Prince Harry then?
“No, we’re just friends,” she says firmly.
From love of one type to another, the girls’ obsession with Ireland is evident as they throw out their new phrases, practising their accent.
“Langer! What’s a langer?” Vanessa laughs.
We tell her she doesn’t want to know.
“A messer,” Una explains, “It’s a Cork expression.”
“Thanks a million…” Mollie smiles, “Well, that’s hello isn’t it? Oh, and I’m fine, I’m GRAND.”
Mollie and Frankie are on-trend…
“We’ve always had good crowds in Ireland,” Frankie says, “We’re always made feel welcome, definitely.”
“And Una is just so passionate about the place,” Mollie says, “We had a summer date in Thurles last year and we came over early to do a round trip of the place Una had grown up, she couldn’t be more passionate about the country.”
Although UK is home for now, Una insists it’s Ireland she wants to return to in the future.
“It’s definitely the place I’d love to return to,” Una says, “I’m fully committed to the UK now at the moment with work, but we spend Christmas here myself, Ben and Aoife, and we love coming here, we’re over and back all the time.”
For now, their next number one is all they’re thinking about.
“We’d love to be number one around the world, that’s every band’s dream, it’s great for us to be number one at home for four of us and we’d love to be number one here, it could still happen,” Mollie says.
They know what their next single is, but they have to keep it hush-hush for now.
“We really can’t say,” Mollie smiles, “But we’ve shot the video, we’re really excited, it’s slightly different to the stuff we have been doing. Quite different to The Saturdays, we must say, but it’s good, it’s very good…”
We’re positive it is girls.
The chart-topping band The Saturdays played at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre last night in aid of the Society of St.Vincent de Paul. The concert is the energy company’s second annual event for the charity. Over 2,000 people attended the event with all proceeds from ticket sales going to the charity and Bord Gáis matched the amount for every ticket sold. The event raised €150,000 for St. Vincent de Paul.
