I haven’t met many people who, within one hour, in the same conversation, would say “Vivaldi was a trailblazer” and “Amanda Holden came on my podcast and blew me away”. But until today, I hadn’t met Myleene Klass. The classically trained musician and survivor of Noughties pop band Hear’Say is now a TV and radio presenter, podcast host, author and political campaigner – and she isn’t like many people. When she was growing up, for example, her dad started a diving business. “So when everyone else was playing with Wendy houses, I was playing in a decompression chamber,” she tells me unblinkingly. This is consummate Klass: sharp, disarming, and just slightly, wonderfully absurd.
We haven’t even been sitting down for five minutes when the star lobs out the first marmalade dropper. “I kept the Hear’Say diaries. They are actually under lock and key with a lawyer,” she tells me. Hang on, what diaries? A lawyer? These must be published, pure and simple. “I think they’re just too libellous. Honestly. I really don’t think I could! I think it’d just be a litigation nightmare. Everyone’s in there. I wrote about everything, everybody we met. And you have to remember, we met everybody.”
