Simon Fuller has revealed that S Club 7 were a continuation of what the Spice Girls could have been.

Fuller, who managed both the Spice Girls and S Club 7 explained that when the former fired him as their manager back in 2007, he took some of his ideas for the future of the band and applied them to the latter.

Fuller spoke out as part of BBC Radio 2 documentary “The Fuller Picture”.

"That was probably the most significant and important year of my life. It defined the next part of my career.

"S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone.

"S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.

"I wanted it to be TV-led. I wanted it to be singing and dancing and acting. And I also wanted it to be my project, so I invented S Club 7.

"I think the fact the Spice Girls could wake up and decide they didn't want to work with me anymore wasn't great, so I wanted to build my next project that couldn't disband and break up - and it was mine."