Pop star looks unrecognisable from her band days – but can you guess who it is?

A pop star appeared worlds away from his band’s heyday while out for a dog walk Tuesday.

Having had a string of successful hits, the singer will join her bandmates for a reunion tour, filled with 90s and early 90s nostalgia.

The singer has been photographed for the first time since rumors spread that the group was to reform, 25 years after they first found fame, but can you guess who it is?

That’s how it is. I’m Jo O’Meara. The 43-year-old S Club 7 star, who often sported brightly colored crop tops and low-waisted jeans in the band, bundled up as she went out for a walk with a friend.

Sports In a cream puffer coat and floral cheetah-print tracksuit, Jo’s signature barbed wire bicep tattoo was covered.

Jo teamed the look with black Nike sneakers and glasses and wore her blonde locks in a bun, a noticeably different style from her poker-straight peroxide white hairstyle in S Club.

The singer kept a low-key profile during her outing, just days after the Mail on Sunday revealed that S Club 7 is reforming.

The seven members of the group accepted the comeback, masterminded by music mogul Simon Fuller, the man who formed them in 1998 after the Spice Girls, their previous band, fired him as their manager.

He personally called each of the seven stars: Rachel Stevens, 44, Tina Barrett, 46, Jon Lee, 40, Paul Cattermole, 45, Bradley McIntosh, 41, Jo and Hannah Spearritt, 41, to suggest the project and made it clear. . it would only work if everyone agreed.

Their return and the details of their reunion are expected to be announced with much fanfare in the coming weeks.

A source close to the project said: ‘Simon Fuller saw the value in this, S Club 7 had a huge following of all ages who he thinks will want to go see them for nostalgic reasons.

“Their songs were so upbeat and fun that it’s a great business opportunity for all of them, particularly Simon.”

A tour is planned for the summer, although they are discussing whether it will have to be delayed until Christmas due to Jo’s back injury which has led to her undergoing four operations to remove part of a herniated disc.

The singer injured her back during the band’s heyday in 2002, when surgeons wanted to operate on her at the time, but Jo turned it down while on tour.

Last year, however, the excruciating injury flared up, forcing Jo to undergo four surgeries to remove part of a slipped disc in her back.

Jo was jumping on a trampoline during a health break in September and believes the sudden movement caused her back to go into spasm, with four bulging discs rubbing against her sciatic nerve.

Doctors operated at the time, but had to perform multiple surgeries, most recently in November after Jo woke up in the night screaming and shaking in pain.

Two months later, Jo has given a health update revealing that she needs regular physiotherapy and has permanent damage to her right leg.

“It was like someone had shot me in the butt, my whole body went into shock. I thought I was having a seizure. The first thing I did was call an ambulance,” she said. Sun.

“Back surgery is very complex and every time they go in, they only weaken my back. He was absolutely petrified.

‘The surgeons said there was a high chance of permanent damage to my legs and that I would never dance again. She was thinking, ‘Well, that’s it, then,’ because standing on stage and singing Reach is kind of impossible if you can’t move.

Jo said she found it heartbreaking to be told by doctors there was a risk of permanent damage to her mobility, but had to have the operation because “the alternative was even worse.”

The lead singer said the injury occurred more than 20 years ago, and doctors discovered at that time that she had two bulging discs.

The doctors were eager to operate, but Jo felt she couldn’t take the time to have surgery, so they gave her steroids to help her get through the fast-paced routines.

After the band broke up, the singer said her back was fine. But she now believes she was a “time bomb,” as a surgeon who originally saw her said he knew she would see her again when she entered the hospital 20 years later.

Jo is terrified that one wrong cough or sneeze could send her back to the hospital.

The singer is taking things day by day and appreciating the little things in life like being able to walk her dogs.