14 DAY TRIAL // The Pussycat Dolls is officially breaking up, with the second member in just a few days to announce she is no longer part of the famous singing act. After Kimberly Wyatt said over the weekend she no longer wanted to make music with the PCDs, now it’s Ashley Roberts’ turn to quit, saying she wants to pursue a career in acting, as the BBC can confirm.
The announcement was first made on Twitter, with Roberts saying she wanted to see to becoming an established actress. However, that’s not all on the plate of now-ex PCD member, as she also confirms in a separate statement she’s in the studio, working on her own music. Unlike Wyatt over the weekend, Roberts says she will miss the other members of the band, whom she calls her “sistas” for ever.
“Ashley Roberts announced on micro-blogging site Twitter that she had ‘an amazing ride’ and had ‘learned so much.’ She added she will ‘always love those girls. My sistas 4 life.’ Kimberley Wyatt who recently judged Sky One’s Got To Dance talent show left over the weekend saying ‘money and fame can’t buy happiness.’ In a statement, Roberts added that she has ‘gotten the acting bug and am falling in love with it. I have a few projects in the works and when ready I will announce more details to all of you.’ She also said she is ‘in the studio recording some of my own music’,” the BBC writes.
As the publication also points out, Roberts is the third member to leave the band, after Wyatt over the weekend and Carmit Bachar in 2008. Since then, the Pussycat Dolls, who are originally a dance act and only started recording in 2003, but have sold millions of albums in the meantime, have been plagued by breakup rumors, mostly prompted by an obvious attempt at putting more spotlight on Nicole Scherzinger. Wyatt’s most recent interview would certainly seem to suggest that tension was huge within the group before her departure.
“I’ve left the group. […] Money and fame can’t buy happiness. Ultimately I think that happiness is the most important thing in life and I think that once I started to get to know myself more and more I was like, ‘You know, I don’t think that my happiness is within this group right now.’ I wish that it was different because I love what we do on stage. I love being a Doll, but as far as the variables off-stage are concerned – I just couldn’t do it anymore,” Wyatt said, as we also informed you.