To mark the 20th anniversary of their music debut, the Pussycat Dolls have reunited in a move that has delighted fans everywhere. One of the biggest bands of the late 2000s, the Pussycat Dolls are still as fabulous but the group is looking a little smaller this time round.
So who’s in, and who’s out of the Pussycat Dolls reunion?
Which members returning to the Pussycat Dolls?
Nicole Scherzinger, Kimberly Wyatt and Ashley Roberts are the trio that have stepped back into their latex, ready to reclaim world domination.
And it’s already begun.
“We’re back!” the women confirmed on March 12 on Roberts’ UK radio show Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston, Amanda Holden and Ashley Roberts. “And we’re going on tour.”
Having spent the past few years wowing audiences on Broadway, Scherzinger said she realised just how much she missed being part of the group.
“I miss my girls and I miss touring,” she said on the UK radio show. “So yeah, we should do a world tour.”
Just days after teasing a new PCD Forever logo on social media, their first new single, ‘Club Song’, also dropped the same day as the announcement.
Additionally, they announced the global PCD Forever Tour, which will kick off on June 5, and the reissuing of their albums, PCD and Doll Domination, on May 8.
OG members have spoken out about their exclusion
While the hype around the reunion continues to unfold, other original members from the group have spoken out about not being invited to the reunion tour.
Both Carmit Bachar, 51, and Jessica Sutta 43, have released statements detailing how they were not invited to this upcoming reunion tour, despite being due to take part in the previously cancelled 2020 reunion.
On March 18, Carmit Bachar released a statement on Instagram, opening up about her exclusion.
Carmit claimed that she was “not contacted regarding the group’s decision to move forward” and that she “learned of these plans at the same time as the public.”
After detailing her heavy involvement and role in the group’s early foundation, Carmit writes that she “would have appreciated direct communication.”
Another original member, Jessica Sutta, also spoke up about not being included in the reunion on March 15.
Despite being unable to participate in the global tour due to “ongoing health issues”, Jessica wrote that “the recent news was difficult for [her]” and that she would’ve “appreciated the heads up.”
“When rumours about the three girls began circulating, I did try to reach out privately for several months,” Jessica wrote in her statement. “I didn’t receive a response until the night before the announcement, which meant I didn’t have much time to prepare for the reaction that followed online.”
Despite being blindsided, both Jessica and Carmit noted how grateful they were for the girl group during it’s 2000s run.
“I genuinely wish the girls a successful tour and nothing but the best moving forward,” Jessica wrote in her social media post. “I’m grateful for the experiences and memories I had with PCD, and I’ll always hold that chapter of my life close to my heart.”
Jessica later made comments on March 23 while on the Maverick Approach podcast about how she believes she was also excluded from the group’s reunion because of her political beliefs, which made her a “liability”.
She described how in the past she never saw herself as political, but following a health scare she had after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, she started aligning herself with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been notorious for his anti-vaccine views and conspiracy theories.
“I aligned with Bobby Kennedy, which is aligning with MAGA,” she said. “People are screaming at me, ‘You’re MAGA, you’re MAGA.’ Yeah, I am. I triple down on it because I’m so sick of people telling you who I should be.”
When are The Pussycat Dolls going on tour?
The Pussycat Dolls 2026 reunion, otherwise known as the global PCD Forever Tour, will kick off on June 5.
Did a previous reunion ever happen?
This latest reunion follows a proposed 2020 reunion tour – featuring Scherzinger, Roberts, Sutta, Wyatt and Bachar – which was postponed due to the pandemic.
How did the Pussycat Dolls rise to fame?
Originally conceived by Robin Antin as a modern burlesque troupe that performed around Los Angeles in the mid-’90s, it wasn’t until 2003 that a deal was struck with Interscope Records to transform the group into a fully-fledged music act.
And it wasn’t long before they had taken over the airwaves.
Songs ‘Don’t Cha’, ‘Stickwitu’, ‘Beep’ and ‘Buttons’ from their debut 2005 album, PCD, soared to the top of global charts, and they became one of the bestselling artists of 2006.
After several line-up reshuffles, at this time, the band was comprised of Scherzinger, Wyatt, Roberts, Melody Thornton, Carmit Bachar and Jessica Sutta.
When did the Pussycat Dolls break up?
However, after just two albums, the group disbanded in February 2010, despite attempts to rebuild around only remaining member Scherzinger, who ultimately ended up walking away herself by the end of that year.
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