Bardot star Belinda Chapple blames bandmate Sophie Monk for the girl group’s implosion and says she felt like she was ‘thrown out on the road’ so the pop star could pursue a solo career
Bardot star Belinda Chapple blames bandmate Sophie Monk for the girl group’s implosion, saying she felt she was ‘thrown on the road’ so the pop star could pursue a solo career
Belinda Chapple has broken her silence over the implosion of girl pop group Bardot, in which Sophie Monk pursued a successful solo career.
In her new memoir The Girl in the Band, the former pop star, 48, said the band was forced to break up after Sophie, 43, made the decision to leave.
Belinda said her “heart was completely broken” after her bandmates Tiffani Wood, Sally Polihronas, Katie Underwood and Sophie went their separate ways.
“Imagine being on a bus with a whole bunch of people behind the scenes and the band, and you’re going full steam ahead for three years,” she shared. The age.
‘You’re mentally in that world, that’s all you have. And then someone swings open the door of the van, throws you out on the street, closes it and drives on.”
Ex-Bardot star Belinda Chapple (pictured) has blamed her bandmate Sophie Monk for the girl group’s implosion, saying she felt she was ‘thrown on the road’
“Then you stand on the side of the road and you think: ‘What should I do now? How do I get my life back on track?’
It comes after Belinda told the No Filter podcast on Monday that all the women in the group were “shocked” to find out they were splitting up to give Sophie a solo career.
‘I noticed changes in Sophie and changes in management. Strange things happened,” she said.
“But I never, not once, thought, ‘The band is going to end and one of us is going to go solo.’
“I never thought about it until that day when I was in our board’s office and saw everything.”
In her new memoir The Girl in the Band, the former pop star, 48, says the band was forced to break up after Sophie (pictured) made the decision to leave and focus on her solo career.
Belinda went on to say that she, Sophie, Sally, Katie and Tiffani all bonded well in the beginning with “a lot of fuss.”
But things quickly changed among the group of friends as they rose to fame on Popstars as ‘Australia’s answer to the Spice Girls’.
Belinda said that Sophie became “distant” and began to “separate herself” from the other women as she staged her own photo shoots and “got the best outfits in film clips.”
Bardot were the biggest girl band in Australia after forming on Popstars in 1999, and despite success with hit singles such as Poison, the group fell apart after only a few years and disbanded in early 2002.
Belinda said her ‘heart was completely broken’ after her bandmates Tiffani Wood, Sally Polihronas, Katie Underwood and Sophie went their separate ways
The band’s former manager, David Caplice, claimed that Bardot broke up after an “explosive” backstage blowout before their 2002 Mardi Gras performance.
The manager told News.com.au at the time that things were becoming ‘contradictory’.
“I remember the girls getting very hostile towards each other towards the end, when the jealousy and infighting got out of hand,” he said.
That explosive encounter was the death knell for the band. Bardot could have been the biggest girl band in the world.’
However, the members have since denied that an explosion occurred.
Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Monk for comment.
Bardot were the biggest girl band in Australia after forming on Popstars in 1999, and despite success with hit singles such as Poison, the group fell apart after only a few years and disbanded in early 2002.