Natasha Hamilton has claimed the music video for Atomic Kitten’s 2002 single Be With You was supposed to feature her in a lesbian scene.
Natasha Hamilton was supposed to shoot a lesbian scene for Atomic Kitten’s Be With You music video – but it was scrapped at the last minute.
The 43-year-old singer – who recently released her solo EP Extraction – says the idea for her to get romantic with another woman in the promo had been pitched to her and she was happy to film the sequence.
However, at the last minute the proposed scene was dropped after the girl group’s record label overruled the creative team.
Appearing on the Right Back At Ya! podcast, she spilled: “In the video for Be With You, my scene was supposed to be me and a girl. That was what the video director wanted but the record label went, ‘Absolutely not!’. For some reason I was filming last, there was no one there other than the crew and me. The girls are in scenes with boys and I’m not gonna be ‘Billy no-mates’ like ‘no one wants to be with Tash!'”
When quizzed on whether she was okay with the proposed lesbian scene, she answered: “Of course, it would have been amazing! And I’m like, ‘Guys, I just had a baby! It doesn’t matter. It’s representation!’ But no, the label were having none of it.”
Natasha was 16 when she joined Atomic Kitten, with the original line-up also including Kerry Katona and Liz McClarnon.
The singer recently admitted that being in a pop group from such a young age did not prepare her properly for adult life and she was in dire financial straits after she quit the band in 2004 after being handed a £250,000 tax bill.
In an interview with The Times newspaper, she said: “I first really learnt about money when I left Atomic Kitten and was hit with a tax bill of over quarter of a million pounds.
“The period after Atomic Kitten was incredibly hard. I’d just bought and renovated a house, and I took a step back from work because I had postnatal depression … To pay that tax bill I went back to work too quickly and it had a huge impact on my mental health. I had a mental breakdown. My divorce happened.
“I literally had nothing. If I’d cashed in all my assets earlier, maybe I’d have had a couple of million, but it all just went. I remember being on the phone to my bank crying because everything had been paused, and I didn’t even have the login to my online banking because I’d given someone else that power.
“I was too trustworthy and quite naive. Numbers are not my strong point. I remember just crying, thinking I have no idea what I’m supposed to do next … “
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Atomic Kitten’s Natasha Hamilton claims lesbian scene was cut from Be With You music video
