Myleene Klass has spoken about the week she discovered that her Hear’Say bandmate Kym Marsh quit the hitmakers and she admitted it came as a huge shock.

“It happened after the rehearsals for our tour in February” Myleene told Heat magazine “I knew she hadn’t been entirely happy for a few months but she had perked up again. It was a Thursday and she said to me and Susie, ‘I’ll probably see you on Tuesday. I’d love you to come round to the new house for coffee.’ And then on Saturday our management called and said, ‘Kym’s left the band’.”

Myleene said that, when she was told about Kym’s departure, she thought someone was having a laugh “I made a joke of it because there’d been some story in the paper the week before that I was leaving. I rang Kym and her phone was on voicemail, you see. Nine days later, after reading headlines about me kicking Kym out, our manager came back and said ‘She’s left the band’.”

However, what’s troubled Myleene most of all is the way the press have portrayed her as a schemeing villain “People have got my character wrong. I’ve been called bossy and I thought that was bad enough. Now, I’m being called ‘the bitch’. I’d do anything to go back to just being bossy.”

Hear’Say’s next single, ‘Lovin’ Is Easy’, hits the racks on the 12th of August.