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The Saturdays lead Trafalgar Square in remembrance

They have the looks to stop the traffic — and tomorrow they will have the cause. Girl band The Saturdays will bring Trafalgar Square to a standstill at 11am on November 11 to commemorate the nation’s war dead.

For the first time, all traffic lights around the square will be switched to red at 10.58am, and members of the Armed Forces will hold up signs asking drivers to observe the two-minute silence.

Shortly before the silence, The Saturdays, who have sold two million records and clocked up eight Top 10 hits, will perform their song Here Standing. The event will culminate in the public being invited to scatter poppies in the Square’s fountains.

The band was chosen by the Royal British Legion to be the face of this year’s Poppy Appeal, which is focused on providing lifetime care for the “Afghan generation” of servicemen and women and their families. Britain has lost 343 troops in Afghanistan since entering the war there in 2001. Thousands more have suffered life-changing injuries.

Rochelle Wiseman, Vanessa White, Una Healy, Mollie King and Frankie Sandford, who make up The Saturdays, have already performed a private concert for the soldiers and families of 16 Air Assault Brigade at Colchester Garrison. The brigade, which includes Parachute Regiment battalions, deployed to Afghanistan last month.

The band launched this year’s appeal last month at Colchester, where Help for Heroes charity is building one of four personnel recovery centres with £25 million from the Legion.

Sandford said: “We are so proud to have played such a big role in this year’s appeal. We have the greatest respect for our Armed Forces and feel deeply they should be supported and remembered.”

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Saturdays star Rochelle Wiseman chats to OK! about Marvin, X Factor 2010 and Nadine Coyle

Exclusive: The Saturdays singer Rochelle Wiseman opens up about her first Christmas with Marvin Humes and who she’s voting for on The X Factor 2010

WE can’t say we’re not jealous of The Saturdays singer Rochelle Wiseman – the girl has got it all!
As if being a fifth of The Saturdays isn’t enough, Rochelle Wiseman also gets to call JLS heartthrob Marvin Humes her boyfriend – and to top it all off, she’s absolutely stunning.

And as this week’s Facebook Friday prize is three pairs of tickets to see The Saturdays at the Kit Kat Senses Concert for a Cure in December, we thought we’d give Rochelle a quick call to find out about what else the girls are up to at the moment

She told us: “It’s been non-stop for the past few weeks actually…We have ten days off for Christmas and as soon as we get back from that we go straight into rehearsals and then we go on tour at the end of January.”

Phew, that’s an awful lot of work for five girls.

But Rochelle told us she’s looking forward to her time off with Marvin this Christmas, which will be the couple’s first Christmas together in their new house.

She said: “The whole family are coming for Christmas, Marvin and I are going to have it at our house this year so everyone is coming to us. It’s going to be really nice, I’m looking forward to it!”

And while we’re on the subject of Marvin, Rochelle says the pair are still ridiculously happy and aren’t letting all the excitement from the ‘outside’ get in the way of their romance.

She told us: “You kind of don’t think about it [being in the limelight]. We don’t know any different, ever since we met each other it’s just how it has been.

“We always make sure we take time to do stuff together, without everyone else there and everyone else gawping in. But it’s just normal for us.”

Read the rest of this interview on the source.

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Saturdays go with the Flo

SOME might say it’s always seemed like an unusual combination.

But THE SATURDAYS teamed up with US rap star FLO RIDA again last night to celebrate their collaboration, Higher, hitting the Top Ten.

They spent some time at the May Fair Hotel before heading to RUSSELL SIMMONS’ party at Whisky Mist.

Once inside they got stuck into one of the club’s special giant cocktails.

Later in the evening VANESSA WHITE was seen having a cheeky cig with THE WANTED star TOM PARKER.

That’ll do wonders for her singing voice…

Source: The Sun

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The Saturdays go pink for Breast Cancer Campaign

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The Saturdays are proving incredibly sweet in hosting a one-off intimate London gig next month to raise money for Breast Cancer Campaign.

The Kit Kat Senses ‘Concert for a Cure’ gig will see the popstresses supported by Daisy Dares You and Lauren Pritchard.

Mollie King says: “This is a fantastic event to be involved in and we hope that lots of people will be inspired to help donate money to such an important cause.”

Tickets to the gig can be won via promotional Kit Kat Senses Caramel Cream bars featuring a pink ribbon. Each bar has a unique code inside that is activated by logging on to www.facebook.com/kitkatuk (which has more info about how to enter the ticket comp). Each time a code is activated, an additional 10p will be donated to Breast Cancer Campaign by Kit Kat Senses.

Source: Mirror

Issy had added the picture to the gallery already, so if you click on the thumb above you can view it in full size 🙂

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