Huge singer sets sights on Strictly 2024 – but there’s one big problem
EXCLUSIVE: As speculation continues to fly about who the contestants might be on this year's Strictly Come Dancing one 90s chart topper has admitted she would love to do the show.
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Chart-topping star Lindsay Armaou has admitted she would love to appear on Strictly Come Dancing but her husband might not approve because of the "Strictly curse." Lindsay topped the charts as one quarter on girl band B*Witched in the late 1990s whose first four singles went to number one.
Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk ahead of her appearance with the band at the Superboxx Festival at Rochester Castle, Kent, this weekend she admitted that the "curse" could prove a stumbling block. "I'd love to do it," she enthused when asked about the possibility.
"My husband might have something to say about it, though, because of the "Strictly curse," she laughed. Lindsay, now 45, has been married to recruitment director Indi Pahl since October 2015 and the couple share two children, a son and a daughter.
Her bandmate Sinead O'Carroll took part in the Irish version of Dancing With the Stars and this has only added to Lindsay's enthusiasm. "She absolutely loved and she did so well," she smile. "I'd love to do it but we haven't actually been approached - yet," she said.
The Irish girlband, comprised of Lindsay and twin sisters Edele and Keavy Lynch and Sinéad O'Carroll enjoyed huge success following their breakthrough with the debut single C'est la Vie. That went straight to the top of the charts, as did their next three singles.
However Lindsay admitted that achieving such huge success ultimately caused issues when it came to recording the band's second album.
"Obviously, with the first one [single] going to number one, then it would have been acceptable for the second not to do that. You don't get number one every time you release a single, do you? So that would have been okay.
"But then when the second one went in at number one, it was like, 'Oh, wow, we're kind of setting a bit of a standard here'.
"And then the third one, and then the fourth one, it was like, how are we going to maintain this? And there was an awful lot of pressure to then go away and record the second album.
"And what happened was while we were recording the second album, we were also trying to break America.
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"So we were on tour in America, literally months on end, touring, and at the same time trying to write songs and do bits of recording.
"Our producer would fly out and meet us, and it was all a bit bitty. So it was kind of like: 'We've got a deadline. We've got to get the second album out within six months of the last one otherwise you'll lose momentum,' and all the rest of it.
"And so there was so much pressure at that point because we have deadlines and we have this pressure to deliver hit songs.
"I think in hindsight, it would have been nice to have a little bit more leeway and have an extra few months to actually really be a little bit more creative, and just have that pressure lift a little bit.
"But we went with it, and we still had hits on the second album and in hindsight, the album actually sold really well - it just didn't sell as much as much as the first one," she pondered.