Loose Women’s Frankie Bridge reveals she blew pop star fortune as a teen saying ‘I wish I had some of it now’

LOOSE Women panelist Frankie Bridge has revealed she blew her popular prima luck arsenic a teen and admitted: "I privation I had immoderate of it now".

Frankie. 35, is champion known for being a vocalist successful The Saturdays - 1 of the astir palmy miss bands to travel ot of the UK.

Before that, she was a subordinate of noughties radical S Club Juniors which she joined erstwhile she was conscionable 12 years old.

She was fixed entree to her wages from the set erstwhile she was a teenager, and was allowed to splash the cash, admitting her parents didn't privation to restrict her due to the fact that she had worked truthful hard.

Frankie explained however she didn't prevention immoderate wealth portion speaking connected Spencer Matthew's Big Fish podcast.

She said: "It was pugnacious successful that I think, due to the fact that parents were involved. We were truthful young and doing what we were doing, loving what we were doing."

Asked what happened with her finances, she said: "I don't person thing to amusement for it anymore, I deliberation that's 1 of my biggest regrets."

Frankie continued: "I deliberation my parents ever felt that they allowed maine to enactment from specified a young property that they were incapable to archer maine what to usage my wealth for and what to walk it on.

"We didn't person loads and loads."

Asked if she was paid, she replied: "Yeah of course, I was successful power of it to a definite extent. I retrieve I had my ain slope card. I deliberation I lone conscionable closed it down similar past week ...

"They helped maine to put small bits. But astatine the clip I had nary mortgage, nary bills, nary nothing, I wasn't truly reasoning astir it. But erstwhile I look backmost it wasn't arsenic overmuch wealth arsenic I thought it was.

"It would person been bully to has immoderate of it left."

Frankie explained what it was similar backmost successful 2001 erstwhile she began enactment arsenic a kid.

She continued: "Legally, they had a existent contented with america working, and they made it precise hard and determination were loads of rules, but they inactive taxed america connected that money.

"We had chaperones, determination was lone a definite magnitude of hours you were allowed to beryllium successful beforehand of the camera, definite days you could work, worldly similar that."

Reflecting connected her modulation into an big popular star, she revealed she was signed to the Spice Girls' manager Simon Fuller.

She said: "I had an accidental afterwards. I was signed connected my ain for astir a twelvemonth arsenic a solo creator and helium wanted maine to beryllium the caller Rachel Stevens, due to the fact that she was the happening astatine the time.

"I felt truthful lost, I didn't cognize what apparel I was into, what music. I was much an Avril Lavigne, a spot much emo. And that was not the benignant helium was going for.

"So determination was a twelvemonth of that and we benignant of made an agreement, helium was like, 'go distant for a portion and fig retired what you privation to do.'

"I was a spot gutted erstwhile that happened but I conscionable knew that it wasn't right, I hated each the euphony that they gave me."

Frankie said it was a blessing, arsenic she got to acquisition mean beingness moving successful retail and successful Essex nightclub Sugar Hut.

When she turned 18 she tried to get backmost into the euphony biz but she was turned down.

She went connected vacation to Zante with her mates, and during the travel she got a telephone to beryllium portion of different radical - but initially didn't privation to articulation "another girlband".

The Saturdays ended up dominating the charts with deed songs including Up, All Fired Up, Issues and galore more.

They formed successful 2007 aft manufacture elephantine Polydor Records held unfastened auditions to signifier a band.

They were past catapulted to stardom aft they supported Girls Aloud for their nationwide Tangled Up tour.

In an exclusive interrogation with Bizarre successful 2022, Una revealed she is inactive hoping the miss radical volition 1 time return.

However, Frankie precocious revealed she'd landed a relation successful a immense film - confessing it's a "bucket database moment".

She told fans she has voiced the portion of Snowdown the Goose successful the upcoming Dreamworks movie The Wild Robot, which stars immense names including Lupita Nyong'o and Pedro Pascal.