S Club 7 star Paul Cattermole ‘was not doing well’ before his death aged 46 and left just £15,000 to his family
S Club 7 star Paul Cattermole was ‘not doing well’ before his death aged 46 and left just £15,000 to his family, a new report has claimed.
The singer was found dead on April 6 – just two months after he and the band announced they were due to go on a reunion tour this autumn. It will still go ahead without him.
Despite the band being one of the biggest pop phenomena of the early 2000s, many of the members have spoken out about their financial difficulties in the past, with Paul admitting to living ‘on the breadline’ during a 2018 TV appearance.
Now it has been revealed that Paul, who died without a will, had total holdings of £35,773 but owed £20,000 in debts and bills, according to The Sun.
A source told the publication: ‘Paul was not in a good way before he died, and was not doing well financially.’
Woes: S Club 7 star Paul Cattermole was ‘not doing well’ before his death aged 46 and left just £15,000 to his family, a new report has claimed
They added: ‘Although it is shocking a member of the group would not be well-off, people who knew Paul might not be surprised by how little he left.’
MailOnline has contacted a representative for S Club for comment.
Paul died at the age of 46 from natural causes at his home in Dorset on April 6, it was announced in a statement released by his family.
His body was discovered in his ground floor flat, devastating his bandmates and fans.
S Club 7 – formed of Paul, Tina Barrett, Rachel Stevens, Jo O’Meara, Hannah Spearritt, Bradley McIntosh and Jon Lee – were one of the most iconic bands of their time, selling over 10 million albums worldwide, starring in their own TV series and winning two BRIT Awards.
Paul left the group in 2002, citing ‘creative differences’, and the group changed their name from S Club 7 to simply S Club before splitting for good a year later.
The singer faced difficulties after leaving the band, becoming bankrupt in 2015 and even putting his Brit Award up for sale on eBay for £650 and saying: ‘There’s bills to pay’.
He also put on a frame he received for S Club 7’s album going platinum in New Zealand, which had a starting bid of £200.
Troubles: Despite the band being one of the biggest pop phenomena, Paul admitted to living ‘on the breadline’ during a 2018 TV appearance (Pictured on Loose Women in 2018)
Reunion: The singer was found dead on April 6 – just two months after he and the band announced they were due to go on a reunion tour this autumn. It will still go ahead without him
In 2018, Paul left Loose Women viewers in tears as he discussed his life living on the breadline, revealing he was living off noodles and couldn’t afford a new shirt for his television appearance at the time.
Speaking with Christine Lampard, Saira Khan, Nadia Sawalha and Jane Moore, he said his financial woes had forced him to live off instant noodles and beg reality TV producers for work.
Paul admitted to trying to sign up to reality shows like I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! and Dancing On Ice but was told he wasn’t ‘famous enough’.
Admitting he was ‘nervous’ about appearing on the show as he was always used to being interviewed with the group, Paul recalled: ‘We toured the world, we are really good friends and was a lot of fun. I look back on those days very fondly. Possibly more fondly than ever before.
‘I wouldn’t say it was the perfect life, as its not very easy when you’re doing a pop group thing, the perception on the outside is not what its like on the inside. But there were very fun times. You take the rough with the smooth.’
After his departure from the band, Paul mainly stayed out of the limelight but revealed he was desperate to appear on reality television.
He confessed that although he had approached producers of Dancing On Ice, Celebrity Big Brother and Strictly Come Dancing, ‘for some reason they don’t want me’.
He added that he had been making ends meet by taking odd jobs and wouldn’t be averse to doing something such as ‘delivering pizza’ for a living.
As he admitted that he had been reduced to living off instant noodles, Jane Moore revealed the show had to buy Paul his shirt to wear on the programme.
She said: ‘You literally didn’t have the money to buy the shirt on your back. How has it got that bad?’
Paul skirted around the issue as he explained: ‘Last year, there’s something that I can’t really discuss that happened so it’s a big tricky. But I’ve had an injury, so that’s what’s happened in the last year that’s made it very difficult.’
In October 2014, it was confirmed the original S Club 7 lineup would reunite for the first time in over a decade for BBC Children in Need, and later announced a UK reunion tour.
Tragic news: Paul died at the age of 46 from natural causes at his home in Dorset on April 6, it was announced in a statement released by his family
Awful: In 2018, Paul left Loose Women viewers in tears as he discussed his life living on the breadline , revealing he was living off noodles and couldn’t afford a new shirt
However, Paul admitted: ‘When we did the 2015 S Club tour I went bankrupt and I had to give all that money back.
‘So I had to give all my money for that tour to pay that bill off, so I had to do the next job that came in which was Rocky Horror. S Club might have done something else if I wasn’t pushed into that position.’
In a bid to ease his financial struggles, Paul tried to sell one of his BRIT Awards, and whilst there were reports the gong had been sold for £66,100 on eBay, he revealed that it didn’t end up selling.
He revealed: ‘It was no way a PR thing. I didn’t expect it to go how it did. I regret, in a way, how it has gone. I was hoping to be able to sell them quietly, without there being a furore.’
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