IN PICTURES: It's 20 years since Kym Marsh and group Hear'Say were top of the charts
The group Hear’Say were created through the ITV reality TV show Popstars in 2001, the first UK series of the international Popstars franchise.
Here we look back at the career of Kym Marsh ...
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Manufactured pop sensations Hear'Say (left to right) Myleene Klass, Danny Foster, Kym Marsh, Noel Sullivan and Suzanne Shaw, at a signing event for their debut single 'Pure and Simple' at HMV in London.
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28 Apr 2001: Wiganer Kym Marsh wears a St Helens shirt as pop group Hear'say perform before the match between St Helens v Bradford Bulls in the Silk Cut Challenge Cup Final at Twickenham, London.
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Members of the Pop group Hear'Say pose for a photograph with their hand casts for Rock Circus Wall of Hands on June 26, 2001, at Rock Circus, London.
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Pop stars Kym Marsh and Myleene Klass of pop band Hear'Say show their excitement while waiting to meet HRH Prince Charles when he visited backstage during Party in the Park in London's Hyde Park Sunday 8 July 2001.