Early life
English girl group All Saints were originally formed in 1993 and signed to ZTT Records. At the time, the group consisted of Melanie Blatt, Shaznay Lewis and Simone Rainford. After struggling to find success, their label dropped the girls after Simone decided to leave.
Success
However, success was still in All Saints' future. In 1996 Canadian sisters Nicole and Natalie Appleton joined the group as they were signed to London Records. Their debut album, eponymously titled, peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart in 1997. Then, their second: Saints and Sinners successfully made it to number one in 2000.
With hits such as 'Never Ever', 'Lady Marmalade' and 'Bootie Call' followed by 'Pure Shores' and 'Black Coffee', All Saints appeared set for permanent future stardom. However, in 2001 after fallings out between the group's members, they split. Despite reuniting in 2006 for a third album, Studio 1, All Saints remained fractured and split again in 2009. While the group have reunited again ion the past to perform their hits, each member has now gone their separate ways.
Personal lives
Mel Blatt was in a relationship with Stuart Zender from 1998 to 2006. The couple shared one child, Lilyella, who was born in November 1998. Shaznay Lewis married Christian 'Storm' Horsfall in 2004. They have two children, Tyler-Xaine who was born in 2006 and Tigerlily who was born in 2009.
Nicole Appleton was in a relationship with Robbie Williams from 1997 to 1998. The couple got engaged, but split before getting married. In 2000 she began dating Liam Gallagher, and gave birth to their son Gene in 2001. They married on Valentine's Day 2008 but divorced in 2014 after it was revealed Liam had had a child with another woman.
Nicole welcomed a baby with her long term boyfriend Stephen Haines in March 2020. She and Stephen married in 2021.
Natalie married Carl Robinson in 1993, following the birth of their daughter Rachel in 1992. Later in 1993, the pair split and got their marriage annulled. She dated presenter Jamie Theakston and actor Jonny Lee Miller in the 90s, before settling down in 2000 with The Prodigy star Liam Howlett. They married in 2002; welcomed a son, Ace, in 2004; and remain together.
