Atomic Kitten’s Natasha Hamilton is eyeing up a judging stint on Drag Race UK. (Getty)
Atomic Kitten singer Natasha Hamilton has teased a possible flip as a RuPaul’s Drag Race UK visitor choose, suggesting that she’s had talks with present’s bosses.
The musician and actuality TV star is greatest identified for being a part of Atomic Kitten, the pop purveyors behind “Entire Once more”, one of many all-time best-selling singles from a British woman group.
Lately, the Liverpudlian singer, 41, has “been a bit quiet” however she has large plans for a comeback, she completely instructed PinkNews.
Final week, she dropped membership break-up banger “Fringe of Us”, her first ever solo single, and her first music launch since Atomic Kitten’s “Southgate You’re The One (Soccer’s Coming Dwelling Once more)”, a 2021 remake of “Entire Once more” to mark the UEFA Euro 2020.
Whereas she’s bought a solo EP coming subsequent month and can then “begin on the album” – due for launch subsequent yr – Hamilton can be eager to make a TV return, by way of one among her favorite exhibits: RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.
“Hell sure, I’d completely like to be on the panel,” she stated, when requested whether or not we might be seeing her alongside RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Graham Norton and Alan Carr any time quickly.
“I watch it with my youngsters; my youngsters like it as properly,” she continued, referring to her 5 kids – the oldest of whom is 21, and the youngest is just below a yr outdated.
Hinting that she’s already in talks with the present’s bosses, she added: “I feel we is likely to be chatting in the mean time, so we’ll see what occurs.”
With new music and a Natasha Hamilton renaissance on the playing cards, that inevitably means some dwell performances too, and there’s one pageant she’s very eager to get on the line-up of.
“Myself and [Atomic Kitten member] Liz [McClarnon] did attend Mighty Hoopla about three years in the past now, it’s nice. It was insane, the response we bought was mega,” she defined.
Atomic Kitten additionally carried out at Mighty Hoopla’s Massive Weekender pageant in January this yr. Hoopla is thought within the UK as one of many largest LGBTQ+-inclusive festivals that includes queer favorite pop acts: this yr’s predominant summer season pageant, which came about on 1 and a couple of June, featured Nelly Furtado, JoJo Siwa, Jessie Ware and extra.
“I suppose the last word [goal] could be [to be] on the primary stage, placing on a present, new music. That may be insane,” Hamilton added. “Clearly, I’m obtainable subsequent yr, Hoopla!”
Hamilton revealed that she first realised she had an affinity with the LGBTQ+ when she was only a baby, as a result of all her greatest associates had been homosexual.
“We got here collectively, we bought one another,” she shared. “I additionally assume rising up in Liverpool in a predominantly white space, being from a combined race background, being the ginger child with the braces and the freckles – I used to be a minority, I used to be picked on. Life was exhausting rising up.”
Her reputation with the queers reached its peak throughout her Atomic Kitten years, as she carried out at London’s largest LGBTQ+ membership Heaven on quite a few events, in addition to at Delight occasions.
“We’d come to London and we’d play Heaven, and it was simply acceptance. We didn’t should be anything apart from who we had been, three cheeky women from Liverpool.”
Regardless of Attomic Kitten’s final album Women Night time popping out over twenty years in the past, Hamilton nonetheless feels the love from the neighborhood to this present day.
“We had been simply taken by the arms of everybody locally and that’s simply stayed,” she shared.
“It means a lot; I really feel seen in your presence, which is great. Life is hard. There’s quite a lot of sh*t on the market. There’s quite a lot of negativity. You may’t do nothing with out somebody saying you sound sh*t, you look sh*t, you’re a sh*t individual.
“You don’t get that within the [LGBTQ+] neighborhood. You get love. You get respect, and you’re feeling accepted. It’s f*cking nice.”
“Fringe of Us” is out now.