25 YEARS LATER… The stars of the groundbreaking 'Popstars' TV talent show reunite for an unmissable tour.

Twenty-five years ago, Hear’Say and Liberty X burst onto the scene after becoming the winners and runners-up of the groundbreaking ‘Popstars’ TV talent show, helping to usher in a new era of reality TV music stars and paving the way for acts including One Direction, Little Mix, Girls Aloud and JLS.

Now, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their formation Hear’Say and Liberty X announce details of one of the most unmissable tours of 2027 - ‘Popstars: The Originals’ is the only place where fans can see both bands perform together for the first time ever on the same stage. The tour of the UK and Ireland will see both bands reunite to headline some of the biggest and best arenas to perform all their hits, playing to a combined audience of over 150,000 fans.

The Hear’Say reunion features four of their original members: Danny Foster, Kym Marsh, Suzanne Shaw and Noel Sullivan and Liberty X return with their entire original line-up: Michelle Heaton, Jessica Taylor, Tony Lundon, Kevin Simm and Kelli Young.

For Hear’Say, their light burned brightly after winning ‘Popstars’. It made them instant household names, achieving #1 success with the pop classic smash hit ‘Pure and Simple’ while also topping the charts with the follow-up, ‘The Way To Your Love’, as well as their debut album, also titled ‘Popstars’, which reached triple-Platinum status in recognition of more than 900,000 domestic sales. They also famously featured on the cover of NME with the headline “The band that killed pop?” As it turned out, they helped to give the genre a whole new lease of life and changed the future of pop music forever.

Liberty X became one of the era’s biggest forces in British pop when they became runners up on the same show. Their biggest hit, ‘Just A Little’, shot straight to #1 and climbed charts across the world before claiming a place in the UK’s top ten biggest selling hits of 2002. They landed another seven Top 10 hits including ‘Thinking It Over’, ‘Got To Have Your Love’ and ‘Being Nobody’, while their debut album ‘Thinking It Over’ peaked at #3 and was certified double-Platinum. They reunited for the ITV all-star series ‘The Big Reunion’ in 2013, and are regulars on the festival and Pride circuits with a three-piece line-up featuring Michelle Heaton, Jessica Taylor and Kelli Young.