The Pussycat Dolls are reuniting as a trio for a world tour and a new single.
Nicole Scherzinger, Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt are bringing back the girl group – best known for hits including Don’t Cha, Buttons and Jai Ho! – for a 53-date tour of Europe and North America.
The PCD Forever tour will begin in North America in June before moving to Europe in September. They will perform nine dates in the U.K. and Ireland before concluding with a night at London’s O2 Arena on 13 October.
To celebrate their reunion announcement on Thursday, the trio released the single, Club Song, their first new track since 2020’s React.
Roberts told BBC News that Scherzinger was the one who first “reached out” to the other Dolls about a reunion.
“We had some conversations, and we were just like, ‘We’re on the same page, we’re excited about embracing where we’re at now as women and celebrating that’,” she said. “I’m just really excited to get back on stage and swing these hips around in some latex, hun!”
Scherzinger explained that she felt ready to revive the group following her award-winning run in Sunset Boulevard in London and New York.
“As an artist, you can’t be bound to one thing, you want to do it all, and it’s just so great to be able to come back, and I did miss the girls,” she shared. “I’m very proud of our group, our legacy, our music. So I was like, well, I just did the West End and Broadway, now it’s time for a world tour. Dolls unite!”
The group were set to embark on a reunion tour as a five-piece – including Jessica Sutta and Carmit Bachar – in 2020, however, the plan was abandoned due to the pandemic and a legal dispute between Scherzinger and the group’s founder Robin Antin. They reached a confidential settlement last year.
As well as the tour and single, The Pussycat Dolls are also releasing 20th anniversary editions of their 2005 album PCD and 2008 follow-up Doll Domination. The new versions, released on 18 May, will feature previously unreleased tracks.
Scherzinger told the BBC that they are “always working on music” and did not rule out making a new album.
Presales for the tour begin on 18 March before going on general sale on 20 March.
The Pussycat Dolls launched as a six-piece – featuring Melody Thornton – in 2003 and originally disbanded in 2010.
