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This Morning's Rochelle Humes addresses career 'issues' after snub on ITV show

Rochelle Humes has gone on the record about difficulties she's faced in her career to date, as her fans are still annoyed by the 'unfair' snub she received on This Morning earlier this month.

Like Loose Women star Frankie Bridge, Rochelle first shot to fame as a member of S Club Juniors in 2022, with the group scoring three number 2 hits in a row with their first three singles, before earning two more top five singles after a rebrand as S Club 8. The group parted ways after two years of chart success, before Rochelle and Frankie then joined The Saturdays, the girl group who has a string of top 10 hits, including number 1 What About Us, from 2008 to 2014.

In more recent years, Rochelle is better known for her TV work, with her and husband Marvin fronting BBC show The Hit List and Rochelle being a regular stand-in presenter on This Morning. Most recently she deputised for Holly when she was struck down by shingles and has also hosted alongside the likes of Craig Doyle and Vernon Kay on the daytime programme over the last year.

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So it came as a bit of a shock to ITV viewers when Holly, giving an emotional speech on her return to This Morning after the scandal surrounding Phillip Schofield failed to mention Rochelle, when she was mentioning members of the show's presenting team, with Vernon and Andi Peters also noticeably absent from the statement.

And now, as he hinted at another 'career move' on her Instagram, Rochelle has spoken candidly about some of the obstacles and tough times she's faced in her career, on entrepreneur Grace Beverley's podcast Working Hard, Hardly Working. Rochelle shared a clip of the interview on her Instagram, with one part of it seeing her address how 'lost' she felt after S Club Juniors came to an end.

She tells Grace: "When S Club Juniors finished it was like 'what am I going to do now?' Because you hear about these child stars, performers who have led a really weird life." Discussing what she found herself doing after the chart success with the group came to an end, Rochelle explains: "So I would be handing leaflets outside of Tesco and feeling really embarrassed, because it wasn't glamorous. Now I'm being that person who's handing out leaflets and no-one wants to take one.

"And we were earning good money; we were helping out parents and then it all ended and so does the money."

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