The Big Reunion - series 1 episode 6 (part 1)

Tonight for the first time, the six bands come together, as rehearsals begin for the most important gig of their lives. Can these former chart toppers rediscover their inner popstars - in tune, in step - and in time? With only two weeks of rehearsals and the stress of juggling their personal lives, the pressure is truly on - and the bands are feeling it. The bands are starting to realise that it's not just a matter of polishing up old harmonies and dusting off routines from the height of their fame. They have to be current and relevant, to find their place in this very different pop world where the demands are higher and the scrutiny far more rigid than it was back in their day.
For some, 'new' is great, an exciting challenge - an opportunity to turn up the performance levels and own the stage. For others it's exhausting and draining, a struggle to keep up with the pace.
One of the UK's top choreographers Paul Domaine and vocal coach extraordinaire Yvie Burnett are pushing them way beyond their limits as they all strive to achieve more than they could possibly have imaged in the little time available to prepare for the show.
And Five are rehearsing as a four-piece as they are still searching for a replacement for J.
With frayed nerves, unrequited love, rubber catsuits and back stage confessions there's as much going on around as well as in the pressure cooker atmosphere of the bootcamp.
Finally with only a handful of rehearsals under their belts, all the bands face their toughest critics -- the other bands - as they perform for each other in a unique and mesmerising rehearsal that is explosive, emotional and simply breathtakingly exciting.
No copyright infringement intended. All copyright goes to ITV2.

[@fantastischfish]

So interesting that Liberty X, the band who formed themselves after 'failing' on PopStars, are the only band who still get along and don't hate each other/have mental health issues. Says a lot really.

[@Ineddiblehulk]

Thought the same. It was lovely to see how grounded and normal they all still were.

[@chubbyknight7571]

Absolutely agree! Even Michelle, who has dealt with serious health and emotional issues, is such a strong girl and a lovely mother. The whole band are just overall lovely people with great attitudes. My favorite group from this show. :)

[@laminage]

I never heard their Music since I live in Canada but they were the luckiest because hey got a second chance. I remember watching POPSTARS US and some of the Girls who weren't chosen found a life outside and are happy. One is an Actress, one became an Optometrist, one Found Jesus and is now Singing Gospel with her Husband in his Church in Atlanta, GA. Taryn Mannning tried out before playing Pensatucky on Orange Is The New Black.

[@GracefulDanny]

Liberty X seem like nice, adjusted people. It's good that they get along and have lives post-stardom.

[@laminage]

They in many ways were the luckiest. They were the most successful in terms of not being chosen for a Group alot of folks would have given anything to achieve what they did. Also to know that their success superceded Hear'Say's was quite a coup. It kind of parallels The Backstreet Boys/N'Sync.

[@BettyMareeHOHCountry]

you could tell that they kept in touch with each other after the band split

[@josemourinho9535]

I fuckin love Liberty X! What a bunch of decent, elegant, lovely human beings. No drama/jealousy/ego issues with eachother whatsoever. Their music was fantastic and quite underrated. Best pop band for me. 👍👍

[@dorsetcarer1]

Prob cause they weren't forced together

[@memorableme72]

This is so amazing seeing them being real and working on their issues. People sometimes forget that these stars are PEOPLE and not just the stars they are known to be.

[@jasmintbeer3379]

I would have hated Sean too if I were Jay. He's such a negative grump

[@tiffprendergast]

Yup

[@af98]

Sean blames everything on everyone else instead of moving on with his life. I don't know what he does for a living but its obvious hes not really doing much and he's just wallowing in misery. Same with Scott, hes a house husband (which is tough) but I feel like instead of getting a qualification in something he'd rather stay at home because again everything's everyone else's fault that he had a breakdown and j was supposed to look after him. So now he doesn't want to do anything.

[@itsbritneybisch8552]

Exactly, and they were the ones who first quit the group.

[@brck03_08]

One of my favorite music documentaries alongside Netflix's "The Greatest Night In Pop".

[@melissawright1979]

I'd swap Sean for J ANY DAY!!

[@siennahiller7544]

abs is the best !!!!! sooooooo kooool !!!!!!

[@edgejoaquin09]

Sean is such a drama queen. Ugh!

[@Ineddiblehulk]

I think he's quite damaged. But yes, so bloody annoying.

[@jetnight88]

Well yes u would say that won't u cos u don't know what it's like too be cracked do u?

[@soggyfroggy9318]

I think Sean was essentially reliving the whole experience which was traumatic for him but in the end it was healing. He was essentially still a child when Five became big (which would've also been a very defining time in his life) so I think his behaviour is/was understandable.

[@lenicarterbaby]

love scott still has his sense of humor! And he has such a cute voice!

[@allenjohnson7686]

Sean clearly has his issues but even back in the 90s he always looked like the boy band boy who didn't look like he was meant to be there.... Just walked in has a complain a dance a complain n walked out....

[@brettnathanslack4578]

Sean is mentally not well. That weird moment when she’s explaining his old self chatting to his new self wtf

[@tiffprendergast]

Bi polar

[@laminage]

@@tiffprendergast I sometimes wonder if Aaron Carter has the same thing. did you ever see the Boy Band Con Documentary with Lance Bass. What Lou Pearlman did to his Proteges was beyond sick.

[@TheLizzifer]

Liz has to be the most insecure person on this entire show. She's SO panicked about Tash and Kerry being friends that you can constantly see her trying to wedge Kerry out. Also, is Sean schizophrenic, or does he have multiple personality disorder or something?

[@jetnight88]

Who Sean? No it's just the memories of the past coming back oh how much shit he was put throw.

[@peterhogben3304]

Interesting

[@LoveFromSami]

Sean is so grumpy!! lol

[@laminage]

You know what would have been "Sick". If Liberty X met "Hear'Say" and talked about how it felt for them to see "Rejects & Flopstars" do bigger and them. Was that hard to deal with.

[@riggstwenty2]

It is difficult to like Kerry and Sean...... or Edele for that matter. But absolutely loving the Lib X guys.

[@hayaglamazonluxe]

Sean is always whinging!

[@laminage]

I have a Cousin like that. She's always looking for the Shoe to drop and no matter how happy you are she tries to sabotage it. She's not happy so she doesn't want you to be happy.

[@josemourinho9535]

@@laminage You pretty much described my old man. Bitter ol' fool could turn a perfectly sunny day into a dark clouded storm. 😐

[@tiffprendergast]

Wining

[@tiffprendergast]

@@josemourinho9535 meee

[@kaylajones7558]

5ive are so amazing, and Ritchie looks as gorgeous as always

[@jcw0lfmother]

aw liberty x are clearly the closest band!

[@spiderliliez]

I feel bad for Sean for having to keep fighting himself. But it's really getting annoying. DUDE, STOP COMPLAINING AND JUST DO IT.

[@jetnight88]

He really has low confident witch is so sad. But he is so annoying I'll give you that and he is to damn sensitive. As for the 911 boys..... Ugh whore themselves to dancers because they we're desperate. Like do you guys have any self-respect?

[@BombatronProductions]

Exactly my thoughts. He’s so argumentative.

[@xxxTIN0xxx]

Natasha is hilarious and amazing 💙

[@jadekray9395]

Who is watching this again from the start lockdown December 2020 ?

[@danoh131]

Sean reminds me of Karl Pilkington in this entire series.

[@iampause]

Fun fact: Mariama and Ritchie dated back when Mariama was in the Honeyz.

[@theunimpressedbeetch]

They did????

[@Nazaba09]

i looked up sean's birthday. he's on the cusp of a gemini. he talks crap about jay being a gemini but HE is also a classic gemini. crankypants.

[@dhantta]

...Abs is amazing!

[@JohnBuckley1989]

liz clearly hates kerry. very good program actually

[@nickybutt9733]

Sean is a really difficult fella to get on with

[@samiyahhussain8506]

@24:10 Abz just looks sooo cute!! awww.x

[@thedbq1]

aww...sean was having conflicting issues with himself. i can understand that, he was too young when five shot to fame. and to be told by jay the music they're doing is cheesy, i feel sorry for him. he seems genuine to want to sort it out though. what i dont quite understand is WHY he decided to do the show and to be in the band all over again.

[@peterhogben3304]

That was very cruel of Jay messing about with a teenage boys head like that.

[@MaxRoc21]

they shouldn't have ask Sean back tbh 😧

[@scouserguy]

Tash & Kerry are very funny in this esp when does the body shaking, also when Kez said to Lee you have not even hit puberty yet.

[@DuchessChau]

sean is drama

[@laminage]

This was The Second Time a UK Boy Band "Covered" an American R & B Song. Take That covered "It Only Takes A Minute" and 911 "Covered" "More Than A Woman" from Saturday Night Fever. I heard the guys were furious when their version wasn't used in The Dance Contest Sequence.

[@escribanomaryjoyce]

1 day was hilarious to be reunited

[@spiderliliez]

Lindsay (B*Witched) has a nice accent, it's almost like a mix of American and Irish in some way.

[@tiffprendergast]

She’s Greek

[@alika207]

@@tiffprendergast Half Irish and half Greek, I believe.

[@mikekaraoke]

@@alika207 Yea her heritage is, but she is Irish!

[@mikekaraoke]

Always fancied looks wise pretty/very pretty girls with dark hair and eyes-and Lindsay was one of them/still is!

[@theunimpressedbeetch]

Heavenli said Hilarious when they're doing the trip down memory lane.... maybe because she wasn't on the "Won't Take It Lying Down" video?

[@Glufub]

Soochz Kookoo was wondering why they didn’t show a video with all of them in it and then realised they’ve never been in the same line up before, finally found is their biggest hit though so not sure why they didn’t show that instead.

[@MaxRoc21]

Soochz Kookoo 😂

[@iampause]

@@Glufub because the music video for WTILD is more iconic. just saying.

[@Glufub]

@@iampause literally my most favourite Honeyz song

[@theunimpressedbeetch]

@@Glufub Yeah like the edit of Love of a Lifetime with Heavenli and with Mariama finishing some her scenes

[@WonderStar83]

J seems the most normal and smart. That Sean is one miserable git.

[@cynaraburgchard5355]

If you upload episode 7 I will hug you. Am in New Zealand and am only able to watch it on youtube and am dying to find out the reaction to Blue going on the tour

[@JackFitzsimmonsZondaFan]

28:46 & that's why I love Edele Lynch sooo much. Edele Lynch Drpp dead gorgeous & she gives the best hugs ever as does Keavy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[@alastorta]

Thanks for the uploads. Greetings from Hungary. :)

[@laminage]

If Jay didn't want to do it, it's not surprising For example, when Dallas celebrated it's 40th Anniversary in April Patrick Duffy (Bobby Ewing), Steve Kanaly (Ray Krebb) Linda Gray (Sue Ellen Ewing) and Charlene Tilton (Lucy Anne Ewing Cooper Cooper Ewing) did interviews but not Victoria Principal. Also to this day The Six Brady Kids don't do Interviews. Maureen McCormick (Marcia) said she and Eve Plumb (Jan) had a Lesbian Relationship but Eve says it's not true. When the Show Celebrated it's 45th Anniversary the Two weren't on The Today Show (A Popular Morning Show).

[@toni_x9844]

Linsday getting some lead thank god!

[@laminage]

What I love about seeing this Documentary is that you see "Talent" not Color. Sadly enough in The UK Liberty X wouldn't have made it in The US. Because they are interracial some Magazines wouldn't take them in their Magazines.

[@scouserguy]

okay this is great love when the kittens do the body shaking Tash as my body shaking, when she dances with five okay which band do you which band was the best reunion for me Atomic Kitten of course then 911 then Liberty X. now you tell me youtube which band to you like best.

[@martinataylor7702]

I'm really sorry but Sean from five5 started to do my head in he would pull everyone up on what they did but as so as it's about how he behave he just got aggressive and just rude sorry but I just fount his tone aggressive like with the dancing rude

[@nickycotton6137]

Wonder why J didn't participate?! Sean's self-conscious obviously, but fronting it up by being negative unfortunately. Wouldn't be the same without either tbf to him. Regardless of what went on between J + his truely. Shame he didn't comply with enthusiasm! Ah well/Respected vid's.👍

[@JohnnyMac95]

Up by tomorrow morning.

[@JohnnyMac95]

For the last time. I DID NOT know that you uploaded them too. I was not aware until you commented on a video that later got removed because you reported me.

[@peterhogben3304]

Natasha Hamilton is fiiitttt!!!

[@VillaBoys123]

Peter Hogben 4 kids 4 dads. You can be next

[@peterhogben3304]

OK. I wouldn't mind. LOL.

[@mikekaraoke]

@@peterhogben3304 Well she gone back on contraception now, A she was told she couldn't have no more kids-That is why she got pregs and Ritch + Natasha were stunned when shr got pregs Doctor was very wrong

[@bimmtown]

Hahahaha I love Natasha

[@laminage]

These guys were so much more "professional" than A Show on The US Network called BET The Encore which consists of Ladies from 1990's Girlbands many of which were R & B like Danity Kane, Blacque, 702 (which is a Las Vegas Area Code) who carry on like they are still Superstars. Such sad sick diva behavior.

[@hellobye7697]

Iconic

[@Zataria93]

Sean is a whiny baby.

[@luckyluck1175]

It is so painful and annoying to see how Sean and Scott jumped at any chance to try to put J down to make them feel better about themselves. It's just pathetic.

[@itsbritneybisch8552]

Sean was always complaining or being a drama queen. And to think he was the least popular, least attractive and most useless member of the band.

[@patrickian88]

doesnt anyone else just LIVEEEEE for Tash? esp her as 5ive lol

[@ragbforever]

god!! i'm oficially addicted to this reality show!!! fuckin' luv the big reunion! haha

[@JohnnyMac95]

Yeah, Malta Sarah X filed a false copyright claim against me cause she wanted the viewing figures all to herself. Her account has now been terminated though.

[@tiffprendergast]

Why’d she do that

[@JohnnyMac95]

@@tiffprendergast Jealousy. We both uploaded episodes of The Big Reunion to our respective channels. Even though I was clearly uploading it first, she threw a hissy fit when it became clear that her vids were getting fewer views than mine. Then she pretended to be the copyright holder and nearly got my channel shut down. So I retaliated by reporting her for fraud and KZbin terminated her channel instead.

[@lisamcwhinney593]

When will u upload the rest ??

[@JackFitzsimmonsZondaFan]

*drop dead gorgeous.

[@JohnnyMac95]

Aye, give me until tomorrow.

[@JohnnyMac95]

Watch it on Malta Sarah's channel. She's got me banned from uploading any more of the show.

[@katyparkes7461]

ooooo five eeee by gum ahahah

[@shanthisatry1970]

Where is Sean Conlon from 5ive left the band from 2001 😢😤

[@bellfeehily]

dont worry, will you upload the rest?

[@JohnnyMac95]

This is not YOUR video. And no I didn't copy you. I've uploaded every episode since the show started. You got the upload I did taken down when I didn't even know about you. So don't go filing a copyright notice against me when you know fine well that you DO NOT own the rights to this show.

[@piawartsback395]

we lack Boyzone, A1, WestLife too

[@Primevalrules2009]

Paul Domaine is also The Saturdays choreographer, I knew I recognised him from somewhere!

[@JohnnyMac95]

How many accounts do you have?

[@JohnnyMac95]

Probably not. Malta Sarah X has it.

[@Stubbla]

you would have thought she's have learned the songs that she didn't know... lol

[@bimmtown]

Didn't realize how ridiculous Sean is. Grow up?

[@aviceena]

I think sean looks a bit like billy corgan frm smashing pumpkins. lol

[@krystlemoore3180]

Hey Jack! This is (Deaf) Krystle speaking. I need to talk to Jack. What do you mean "drop dead gorgeous"? what happen? who? which one groups?

[@JohnnyMac95]

He was talking about Edele from B*Witched, he said so in his first comment. In his second comment he was correcting a spelling mistake he made the first time.

[@krystlemoore3180]

oh kk i don't know that thanks :D

[@krystlemoore3180]

Hi Johnny, Why Blue not there? what happen? how they not here? mission blue should to be there watch video their young boys remember long time that wired not there stranger.

[@JohnnyMac95]

Krystle Moore Blue first appear in the next episode

[@krystlemoore3180]

wat do u mean "apper"?

[@JohnnyMac95]

The Island of Lesbos. That's where the word lesbian comes from.

[@JohnnyMac95]

Go to johnnymack21 at dailymotion. You'll find it there. I can't upload 15+ minute videos to KZbin any more.

[@JohnnyMac95]

Sorry for only having the first half hour. There was a malfunction in the upload.

[@teacherkate1]

Poor Sean, I really feel for him

[@JohnnyMac95]

Or you can get it at dailymotion - johnnymack21

[@samsonmorrell]

Sean trying to be different.

[@ISpyABirdie]

everyone loving j ... meanwhile sean's absent during the music video presentation thing where everyone lookd like children watchn SRSLY the way sean talks abt himself in his head is frkn weird even i dont do that. well i dont think before i act, so im reverse XD however i only problem i had was i thought abz cudv stuck w/ j's verse it was only fair, mayb richie but scott&sean OMG wotwot?! also another thing. j never came back bc he wanted to stay outta the limelight, it sucked but found out he was a happy gay man with couple dogs. IMHO j's doing more fine than all of the boys put together, except scott has a family already. richie&tash broke up but they have a kid. as for abz since he left the group too, he's been a prick since his breakup w/yknowwho. then theres sean who cant make it anywhere. j's done the right thing by leaving tbh LOL ritchie/scott &sean always complained and fought w/abz&j. when j eventually shows up in thatEP. he looks so down to earth & sane compared to everyone else who were just fighting, whining and just been right jerks, why have this reunion if you're gonna act how you did when you were starting out. j&abz look still pretty tight meanwhile the other3 are still touring as 5ive when their reunion tour sucks w/o j&abz +those2 brought the funk tbh i miss them. j was my fave and i still miss him more everyday :( sean always said he left bc j made him depressed, he said he'd leave again if j came back. rmmbr thats what abz told j, j's reaction was amazing. i really thought somehow this reunion would change them, but guess we can all blame simon for disbanding them. why is it european bands like 5ive cant keep their crap together like blue/westlife had, then theres nkotbsb/boyIImen are a great example of going strong 20/30yrs

[@SilverCharmbracelet]

Sean seems problematic.

[@davidcaswell5109]

The big reunion our Five Liberty X Blue Atomic Kitten 911 B*witched Honeyz our back together to take about when they break up as pop group now as pop group again it's wonderfull even UK arena tour at Newcastle metro radio area city hall O2 academy where there sing dance to some of there best songs ever all pop groups still best of friends Kerry Katona will be member of atomic Kitten again but Jenny Frost is watching concert waves smiles at atomic Kitten rest of pop groups to I like the big reunion b*witched Honeyz Atomic Kitten Liberty X our my favourite like five 911Blue but girls or my favourite in the big reunion in 2013 🌻🍍😛

[@Vixenbeach123]

Love Sean very outgoing lovely person

yea, all the money, hotels, flights, pussy... awful 🧐 good on Liberty X not bitching... deamons 🙄

[@SocialMissC]

These videos actually belong to ITV and you're all infringing copyright law by putting them on youtube... just saying