Reunited pop group the Pussycat Dolls delivered a medley of their biggest hits at the American Music Awards today, marking their first televised performance as a group in more than six years.
It was also the group’s first performance as a trio, with lead singer Nicole Scherzinger flanked by Kimberley Wyatt and Ashley Roberts. Other original members Melody Thornton, Jessica Sutta and Carmit Bachar are not a part of this reunion, cutting the six-piece outfit by half.
“We’re baaa-aaack,” Scherzinger announced midway through their performance – but the group’s comeback plans have already been drastically scaled back, with the cancellation of their entire North American tour due to low ticket sales.
American fans wanting to see the reunited girl group live will at this point have only one opportunity to do so, with an upcoming performance scheduled for a Pride festival in Los Angeles early next month.
The situation appears better across the pond, where the Dolls’ UK and European arena tour is – at this point – still going ahead as planned in September and October.
While they did perform a similar medley of their hits at a private event in London earlier this month, the AMAs performance marks the first time the group have performed on television since March 2020.
Elsewhere at the AMAs, another huge noughties pop group reunited on stage: All four of the Black Eyed Peas took to the stage to accept the award for ‘Best Throwback Song’ for their 2009 single Rock That Body.
Meanwhile, the Pussycat Dolls’ lastcomeback over six years ago was launched with the single React, and was set to have the group markets including Australia before the Covid pandemic forced them to cancel all plans.
That reunion attempt later turned nasty when Scherzinger was sued by the group’s founder Robin Antin in 2021, who claimed the singer had backed out of attempts to get the tour back on track because she was not given “complete creative control”.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, legal documents alleged the pair made a deal to reunite the group in 2019 with Nicole accepting a 49 percent cut, leaving 41% to the other members of the group.
Antin claimed in her lawsuit that Scherzinger later demanded her cut be upped to 75 percent.
There is clearly a division between the current and former members of the Pussycat Dolls, who said they were “blindsided” by the news the group was getting back together without them this year.
A question about her ex-bandmates was enough to send Scherzinger into stunned silence during an incredibly awkward live TV interview to promote the new tour.
Bandmate Kimberley Wyatt came to the rescue as a stammering Scherzinger struggled to respond when asked why several members of the group would not be participating in the reunion.
“I mean, it has been an ever-changing line-up, and this is what it looks like now in 2026,” Wyatt said.
“Ultimately, we’ve got to protect our peace, and when something like the Pussycat Dolls has so much history … we have ruptured in the past, and right now we are repairing, and we’re sort of on the same page with that.”
