Girl band legend Cleo Higgins looks all grown up as she joins with Peter Andre for a rehearsal
Nineties singer Cleo Higgins looked all grown up on Wednesday when she joined a singing rehearsal with Peter Andre.
The Cleopatra bandmate and the Mysterious Girl hitmaker will appear together on Symphonic Jackson this weekend.
They will join forces to sing some of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits at The London Palladium.
Cleo took to her Instagram Stories to record a video of her rehearsing with Peter and harmonizing beautifully together.
She rose to fame in the 1990s as part of the girl band Cleopatra alongside her two sisters Yonah and Zainam.
Wow! 1990s singer Cleo Higgins looked all grown up on Wednesday as she joined a singing rehearsal with Peter Andre
Throwback: She rose to fame in the 1990s as part of the girl band Cleopatra alongside her two sisters Yonah and Zainam
Practice makes perfect: Cleo took to her Instagram Stories to record a video of her rehearsing with Peter and harmonizing beautifully together
Originally called Cleopatra and the Attractions, their debut single Cleopatra’s Theme landed at number three on the charts.
Their next three singles, from their album Comin’ Atcha!, reached the top five and received BRIT and MOBO Award nominations.
Madonna signed Cleopatra to her Maverick label in the US and the band was invited to support the Spice Girls on the UK leg of their sold-out Spiceworld Tour.
Cleo next appeared on The Voice in 2013, with will.i.am as her coach and reached the semi-finals.
Cleo and Peter’s partnership comes after it was revealed that Peter is involved in a £262,000 financial dispute after his personal company went bankrupt.
While his ex Katie Price’s money troubles are well documented, the singer also ran into financial problems when PJA Promotions appointed a liquidator on May 9 to dissolve the company.
The dispute concerns £229,125 in corporate tax which HMRC says it owes, and a further £25,577 in VAT, plus £7,592 in trade payables, both of which are finance companies.
According to the liquidator’s statement of affairs, how much of this will be recovered is uncertain and £5,000 worth of furniture and equipment is expected to come to zero.
It’s clear that PJA Promotions fell behind schedule after Andre’s tour schedule ground to a halt during the coronavirus pandemic.
Comeback: Cleo appeared on The Voice in 2013, with will.i.am as her coach and reached the semifinals
In the red: Peter’s personal business has gone bankrupt with £262,000 in debt, two-thirds of which is owed to the taxpayer, which he disputes
Old times: PJA Promotions was formed in 1996, at the height of Andre’s pop career, with the Australian singer listed as the sole director (pictured in 1996)
A source told MailOnline: “No one was allowed to work during the pandemic and like millions of other entrepreneurs, people lost businesses and jobs during this time.
Fortunately, he is now working regularly again. Pete has paid millions of pounds in tax during his career and is working with HMRC to resolve this dispute. He never took out any loans.’
The 50-year-old currently lives in a country house in Surrey with doctor’s wife Emily and his children Amelia, 9, Theo, 6, Princess, 15, and Junior, 17.
On Chris Evans’ Virgin Radio show last month, Andre admitted he had been vacuuming real estate since the 1990s after his father secretly saved his hit royalties when the singer thought he was broke.
Problem: It’s clear that PJA Promotions fell behind schedule after Andre’s tour schedule ground to a halt during the coronavirus pandemic
Family: The 50-year-old currently lives in a country house in Surrey with doctor’s wife Emily (pictured) and his children Amelia, 9, Theo, 6, Princess, 15 and Junior, 17
He said, “Luckily I saved for you and all those royalties that came in, which I had no idea about, my father saved and I had enough to buy two or three great properties. So I started buying properties from before things happened here.”
Andre has six other active businesses, but they are all currently dormant. In the latest set of bills filed in October 2022, PJA Promotions had a debt of £95,192.
The company was founded in 1996, at the height of Andre’s pop career, with the Australian singer listed as sole director.
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