2000

August: London Weekend Television place a full-page advertisement in the show business newspaper, The Stage: ‘Have you got what it takes to be a star? Are you aged 18-24 and simply bursting with talent?’ The search for 5 new Popstars had begun.

November: The band is secretly moved into the £1million, Popstars house in North London. They will be in hiding for several months before the official reveal.

November: The group attend An Audience with Ricky Martin at the London Weekend Television studios. So they don’t get recognised they go undercover as competition winners.

2001

10^th January: Popstars begins on ITV1 and is watched by over 12million viewers.

3^rd February: The members of the band are revealed on a tension filled episode of Popstars. Millions of viewers tuned in to watch the three judges break the news to each of the 10 finalists one-by-one.

5^th February: The band faces the press for the first time when they flew into Heathrow Airport from Norway where they had been recording their first album. As yet the band has no name.

10^th February: An Audience with Ricky Martin is shown on ITV1; if you look carefully you can see the band members in the audience.

17^th February: Hear’say attends Heat Magazine’s party at the Park Lane Hotel, London.

20^th February: It’s announced that the band have been officially christened as hear’say. It follows weeks of speculation about their title but the band say they decided on the name ‘ages ago.’

24^th February: Hear’say makes their live television debut, singing on ITV1's Saturday morning music show CD:UK.

26^th February: The band performs in front of 100’s of music executives and excited fans at The 2001 Brit Awards. Despite a dubious reception from some of the music industry the band carried on and proved to them all that they could actually sing! They also presented singer Kelis with her award for International Newcomer.

10^th March: Hear’say makes their live stage debut, singing a 5 song set at a G.A.Y club night at the London Astoria.

12th March: Hear’says debut single Pure And Simple is released.

16^th March: 8,000 screaming fans mobbed the group as they turned up at an in-store autograph session. Hysteria broke out among the crowd and many fans queued for hours to meet the band at a Woolworth’s store in Milton Keynes.

 17^th March: The band launches their own range of dolls at Hamley's toyshop in London. Hundreds of fans queue for hours to meet the band.

18th March: Pure and Simple goes straight in at Number 1. It becomes the fastest selling debut single and the fastest selling non charitable single in history. It sold over 300,000 copies in the first 3 days with total record sales to date over £1.2million.

22^nd March: Sir Paul McCartney comes out in support of hear’say, offering them ‘the best luck in the world.’ Speaking at a poetry reading in Liverpool, the former Beatle said of the group: ‘Popstars is what it is. They are kids looking for a break. I wish them the best luck in the world. They will need it.’

23^rd March: Hear’say performs their debut single Pure and Simple on the BBC1 chart show Top of the Pops.

26th March: Their debut album Popstars is released. It had the biggest ever first week sales for a debut album with 306,631 sold in the first 6 days and over £1million overall.

29^th March: Hear’say travel to Coventry to launch their debut album at Virgin Megastores. 1000’s of fans queued from 5am to catch a glimpse of the famous five.

1st April: Popstars is Number 1. Hear'say becomes the first British band to top the single and album charts simultaneously with their debut releases.

7^th April: Hear’say join presenter Davina McCall for a celebration of their success and a chance for the nation to meet the bands family and friends on ITV1’s Meet the Popstars.

13^th April: Hear’say performs their second single The Way to Your Love on BBC1’s Top of the Pops.

21^nd April: Hundreds of fans turn out to see hear’say perform four of their tracks at MTV's Five Night Stand at north London's Ocean Club in Hackney.

28^th April: The band performs at the Rugby League Silk Cut Challenge Cup final in Twickenham, London.

28^th April: Hear’say help break another world record by playing to the biggest ever office party. The band performed to over 11,500 Vodaphone staff at London’s Earl’s Court. The party broke the record for the largest silver service dinner.

5^th May: Suzanne becomes the victim of a sick internet hoax when reports of her suicide flood the internet. A webpage set up to look like BBC News reported that the young star had been found dead in her North London home. The rumours were quickly quashed by Suzanne’s management.

6^th May: Hear’say performs alongside S Club 7, Wheatus and Shaggy at the BBC Radio 1’s Big Sunday Festival. 70,000 fans came out to see the group at the Morfa Stadium, Swansea.

11^th May: Hear’say head to Germany where they perform in front of a packed crowd at The Dome 18 event at the Erdgas Arena, Riesa.

24^th May: Hear’say sings alongside Lionel Richie and Shirley Bassey at a gala concert to mark the Duke of Edinburgh’s 80th birthday. The group performed their new single The Way to Your Love at the special event at London's Royal Albert Hall.

28^th May: The band gives a surprise performance to an estimated 250,000 fans at the Orange WOW Festival in North Shields. They helped pull in record breaking crowds and had to be escorted by the police. In true showbiz style the band were hurried away by a speedboat.

 31^st May: 1000’s of fans flock to Harrods in London for a high security book signing of Popstars: The Making of hear’say.

16^th June: Hear’say performs the Three Degrees hit When Will I See You Again on the ITV1 extravaganza 70’s Mania.

25th June: Their second single The Way To your Love is released. The group had to reshoot the video for the track in England after their original video shoot in Spain was hit by torrential rain.

 30^th June: Hear’say performs to over 80,000 people on the Radio One stage at the Mardi Gras festival in London's Finsbury Park.

1st July: Their second single, The Way to Your Love goes straight in to the charts at number 1.

8^th July: Hear’say performs for Prince Charles and over 100,000 fans in Hyde Park at the Princes Trust Party in The Park.

14^th July: The band performs to 10,000 fans as part of Party in the Park at Cardiff Castle.

29^th July: Hear’say performs alongside Atomic Kitten at the Feel the Noise Live concert in Stockton.

18^th August: The first edition of hear’say its Saturday is shown on ITV1. Three more programmes followed featuring guests Lionel Ritchie, David Cassidy, Atomic Kitten and Blue.

25th August: Hear'say begins their UK Arena tour with a matinee performance at Cardiff’s International Arena.

27^th August: Hear’say takes time out from their busy tour schedule to perform at BRMB’s Party in the Park.

6^th September: Hear'say sets the world record for having the loudest fans in a single location. Over 10,000 fans reached a sound level reading of 128.8 decibels, achieving a Guinness World Record. Guinness World Records researcher Della Howes said: ‘It was louder than a jumbo jet.’

22^nd September: Hear’say finds success at the Disney Channel kid’s awards, winning best new chart shakers. The group also take to the stage to perform their smash hit singles.

 29th September: Hear'say ends their sell out tour at the Manchester's Evening News Arena. Over 350,000 fans saw them in 9 cities across the UK.

25^th October: Hear’say proudly launches The Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal 2001 at London’s Covent Garden.

27^th October: After the success of the original dolls, hear’say launches a new range of singing dolls. The dolls are kitted out in the band’s Brit Awards outfits and sing the chorus to Pure and Simple.

16^th November: The group perform on BBC1’s Children In Need Appeal Night.

26th November: Everybody the band's new single is released.

26^th November: Hear’say performs alongside Elton John, Jennifer Lopez and Cher at The Royal Variety Performance, Dominion Theatre, London.

30^th November: The band performs at the inaugural TOTP Awards at The Manchester Evening News Arena. Nominated for two awards, the group come away with nothing.

1^st December: Hear’say attends The Children’s Bafta Awards at the Hilton Hotel, London.

2nd December: Hear’says third single, Everybody gets to number 4 in the charts.

3^rd December: Everybody, their all-important second album is released.

3^rd December: Hear’say attends the Chancellor's annual children's Christmas party at Number 10 Downing Street. Over 50 children with life limiting or terminal illnesses and their families enjoyed the festivities alongside comedian Dawn French and TV favourites The Tweenies.

4^th December: The group performs at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Tour event at the Cardiff International Arena. Other acts on the bill included A1, Blue, DJ Pied Piper and Liberty X.

7^th December: Hear’say perform their new single Everybody on Top of the Pops, BBC1.

9th December: Everybody the album charts at number 24.

9^th December: Hear’say performs on ITV1’s Record of The Year programme and come a respectable 4^th. S Club 7 were voted the winners.

12^th December: Hear’say performs on BBC1’s Top of the Pops Christmas Special.

23^rd December: Hear’say attends The National Television Awards at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall, London.

30^th December: The Hear’say Story airs on Television. Little do the public know about the chaos going on behind the scenes for the group.

2002

1st January: Hear’say appears without Kym in ITV1’s Christmas Pantomime Dick Whittington.

24^th January: It's officially announced that Kym marsh has left the group. The remaining four decide to carry on and replace Kym with someone else.

27^th January: Hear’say performs for the first time since Kym’s departure at Dublin's Point Theatre for a Childline Fundraising Concert.

3rd February: Hear'say begins open auditions for a new member in Brixton, London.

5^th February: After two days of intensive auditions dancer Johnny Shentall is announced as the new member.

10^th February: The bands new TV show Hear’say a New Chapter starts on ITV2.

14^th March: Hear’say’s 9 city second tour is cancelled, reportedly to let new boy Johnny adjust and settle in.

17^th  April: Hear’say opened the new Maelstrom ride at Drayton Manor Park.

22^nd April: Myleene and Suzanne help unveil the Guide Association as Girlguiding UK. Johnny’s then fiancée Lisa Scott-Lee was also on hand to help.

23^rd May: Hear’say wins the Ivor Novello award for best selling UK single (Pure and Simple.) The awards take place at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London but the band does not attend.

27^th May: Johnny and Suzanne take part in the charity football tournament Soccer Six.

9^th June: Hear’say kicks off the Summer XS event at the Rivermead Centre, Reading. Fellow chart toppers The Sugababes, Liberty X, H & Claire and Busted also delighted the crowds.

23rd June: The band performs at the annual Brighton Party in the Park event. More than 100,000 fans made their way to the cities Preston Park for the star studded show.

6^th July: Hear’say performs for a second year at BRMB’s Party in the Park at Birmingham’s St. Andrew’s Stadium.

6^th July: The band performs at Liverpool’s Feel the Noise Live event at the Aigburth Cricket Club. Other acts included The Sugababes, Blue, Will Young and Ronan Keating.

July 16^th: Hear’say flees a motorway service station and are chased down the M1 by a man brandishing a fake gun. A man was arrested and bailed but no charges were brought against him.

20^th July: The band performs at Cardiff’s Red Dragon Party in the Park. The event, staged in the castle grounds of Coopers Field welcomed over 20,000 excited fans.

28^th July: Hear’say performs at the Feel the Noise Live event as part of Stockton's Riverside Festival. 25,000 fans flocked to see acts including Atomic Kitten, The Lighthouse Family and 3SL.

12^th August: Their first and only single with Johnny, Lovin' Is Easy is released.

23^rd August: Hear’say performs their new single Lovin’ Is Easy on BBC1’s Top of the Pops.

18^th August: Lovin' is easy charts at number 6.

30^th September: Hear’say meets with their management and given their recent reception from the public decides they had no choice but to split.

1^st October: Hear'say announces the split to the public.