IN PICTURES: It's 20 years since Kym Marsh and group Hear'Say were top of the charts
It’s 20 years since a TV-made pop group featuring a Wigan singer, Kym Marsh from Ashton-in-Makerfield, had their first number one hit.
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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Singer Kym Marsh and first husband, actor Jack Ryder, arrive at the British Academy Children's Film And Television Awards in association with The Lego Company, at the Hilton Hotel on November 30, 2003 in London.
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Kym Marsh poses with fellow cast members of the Stoke-on-Trent annual pantomime in 2005, from left, Andy Goulding, Vanessa Clark, Eric Potts, Jonathan Wilkes and Kym Marsh.
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Singer Kym Marsh arrives at the UK Charity premiere of animated film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit at the Odeon West End on October 2, 2005 in London.
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Kym poses backstage at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards UK at the the Excel Arena on October 20, 2007, in London.