Full name: Joanne Velda O' Meara
Birthdate: April 29th 1979
Born: In Essex, England
Star sign: Taurus ( "I'm a Taurus, but I'm not really into astrology.
I just know that I'm like a bull in a china shop and quite clumsy." )
Height: 5' 4 ( 166cm )
Eye colour: Blue
Hair colour: Blonde
Shoe size: UK4
Family: Dad Dave; mom Barbara; brother Shane and sister Julie

Favourite Singer: Michael Jackson ( "I'd probably faint if I ever met him.")
Favourite CD: Michael Jackson' s HIStory album
Favourite food: Chinese, Farmhouse pizzas and old good Sunday roast
Favourite movie: Grease ( "You can't beat 'Grease'! For me it's the ultimate
chick-flick- I'd love to play Rizzo- and just you try stopping me singing along")
Favourite clothes: her jeans and trainers
Favourite color: black
Favourite possession: her teddies, Gus and Donald
Favourite S Club song: Reach
Favourite S Club Storyline: "The Blair Witch spoof we did in LA7, because
we all got to run around these woods at three in the morning pretending to be scared."
Favourite Tour Moment: "I didn't think it at the time, but the anxiety just
before we went on stage the first night. I think I went through just about every
emotion- laughter, nerves, even tears."

Previous jobs: pet shop, supermarket and a singer in a restaurant
Previous bands: S Club 7, 2-4 Family, Solid HarmoniE

Likes:
West Ham, keeping Bradley in order, onion rings,
buying bottles of perfume, steak and chips, EastEnders,
R&B, karaoke, touche éclat, her dogs, her boobs,
her house, her teddies, candles, going to bingo, gambling,
chocolate, Sunday roast, Grease, Ian Wright,
Johnny Depp, Michael Jackson

Dislikes:
Being grumpy in the morning, her habit of picking her
mascara off her eyelashes,and not getting the winning
line at Bingo, spiders, heights, much of her time at school,
smelly men, peanut butter, slyness

Describes herself as: "Delicated, crazy and temperamental."

Life Outside S Club: "I'm very quiet outside work. I don't ever go to showbiz
parties, they just aren't my scene as I feel I'm being watched all the time."

As you'd expect, though, Jo's been singing since the world 'go', with her family's support and
encouragement. By the age of 12 she was singing in clubs and no stranger to the charts. She
even broke the Top 40 pre- S Club with a country and western hit in Germany.

No wonder then that touring has been har favourite S Club moment to date.

"It's every band's goal to get out and do it for real in front of their fans and we waited for three
years for the chance. So when the tour came round, we were all 100 per cent up for it."

You'd be forgiven for thinking that a feisty personality would come hand in hand with Jo's
powerful voice, but that's certainly not her case.

"I've got one of those faces that looks like I'm always miserably or narked of," she admits,
"but the truth is I'm a big softie at heart."
A big softie who sings down the phone to her 'two boys' - her dogs- while she's away from home.

An Essex girl through and through- and proud of it- like the other S Clubbers, Jo has no pretence
to pop superstardom and still finds it strange when asked for an autograph.
"What's so interesting about having 'Luv Jo' on a piece of paper?" she asks.

"I've been asked if I would sign this guy's bum, but I just couldn't, absolutely not!"