Girlbands Forever is currently streaming on BBC iPlayer, but as the above image suggests, there's one curious omission

After the success of last year’s Boybands Forever documentary, it’s now the turn of iconic British girl groups to take their place in the spotlight.

Executive produced by Louis Theroux, the three-part series Girlbands Forever debuted on BBC iPlayer earlier this week, featuring interviews with members of some of the UK’s most popular girl bands, as well as those who helped them on their journey to pop domination.

Among those featured in the doc are Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards, Eternal’s Kéllé Bryan and Mis-Teeq’s Sabrina Washington and Su-Elise Nash, as well as Kerry Katona, who rose to fame as a member of the band Atomic Kitten.

However, while the documentary charts the rise of bands like All Saints, the Sugababes and, of course, the Spice Girls, pop fans couldn’t help but notice one curious omission.

Despite widely covering the huge chart success of girl bands in the 90s, 2000s and 2010s, the documentary mentions Girls Aloud only once (in archive footage from Little Mix’s acceptance speech at the 2021 Brit Awards).

Girls Aloud were formed in 2002 on the reality show Popstars: The Rivals, and went on to release five studio albums during their time together, scoring 20 consecutive top 10 hits and four number ones.

Because of this, the group’s absence from the documentary left many viewers with a lot of questions…

Absolutely loving the new girl group docu on BBC - so interesting & right up my street...but how can you do a docu about UK girl groups & not even mention Girls Aloud?! Not even once...😅 So weird.

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