It’s mid-afternoon, and The Pussycat Dolls have been awake since 4am. It’s a big press day for the '00s pop juggernauts, having just announced their long-teased return with new single Club Song and a UK and North America tour to boot. You might think that 12 hours into their workday, the Dolls would be flagging or lacking real energy to speak to yet another journalist. But to my delight, Nicole Scherzinger, Ashley Roberts and Kimberley Wyatt are raring to go, giggly and bursting with excitement over being back together after a six-year hiatus.
Bursting onto the scene with cheeky debut single Don’t Cha in 2005, The Pussycat Dolls dominated the airwaves of the mid-to-late 2000s with a streak of undeniable hits like Beep, Buttons and When I Grow Up. A six-piece then, the Dolls disbanded in the early 2010s to pursue the stage, TV and family life, before a welcome return to the charts with React in 2020.
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Unfortunately, the pandemic poured water on their grand reunion plans, but gave Nicole the time to earn an Olivier and a Tony for her turn as sexy, withering diva Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.
And now, six years later, the band’s back together, celebrating 20 years of PCD (and 18 since their sophomore release, Doll Domination). Though being three members lighter than before, the 2026 version of PCD is ready and waiting to show a new generation the power of the Pussycat.
Glamour caught up with The Pussycat Dolls to find out what it’s like returning to the pop world and how they’re approaching an international tour, 20 years after their start.
Glamour: Welcome back, Dolls! What makes now the perfect time to reunite, and how does it feel?
Nicole Scherzinger: 20 years, baby. It’s been 20 years since we released our first album, PCD, and Don’t Cha — it’s time.
Kimberly Wyatt: This time, we feel grown — we’ve all experienced life, we’ve grown up. We’ve really connected and feel unified in the power of three and what we’re about to partake in. To think that now we get to go celebrate with all the fans and everybody that's going to come and celebrate with us on tour… It's epic.
GL: How long has a reunion like this been on the cards?
Nicole: Well, six years ago, we tried to make it happen but…
Ashley Roberts: Miss 'Rona stepped in and messed up our plans.
Nicole: And now it’s perfect, because it’s a 20-year celebration since we started out.
Kimberly: The keyword is ‘celebrate’ — like, we’re excited. We’re coming together now as women with the lives that we’ve led, and we get to come together back on stage.
Nicole: So many people grew up with us, so we get to celebrate with them and feel good. And then, we’ve got a whole new generation to introduce our music to.
GL: Let’s talk Club Song — I love that it opens up with the phrase ‘Don’t bring your boyfriend to the club’! Why did you want this as your mission statement for your return?
Nicole: Because it’s fun! Look, we had Don’t Cha, we said ‘loosen up my buttons’ — it’s a fun, empowering, independent female anthem.
Ashley: Some of my best nights I’ve had, I’ve been out with my girls: on the dance floor, whipping the hair around, just celebrating each other, not even trying to go look for other men or whatever it is that you like. Just to go out there and dance and feel the music going through your body. You become alive!
Nicole: It’s such a different time for women. I think it’s just amazing how, like in our song I Don’t Need a Man, women are like, ‘I don’t need a man to feel confident, to feel whole, to be self-assured'.
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Kimberly: As a mum of three kids, I know what it's like to lose your identity after you have children, and you create this new life. It’s incredible to get to this point where you kind of reclaim your identity even though you’re a completely changed woman. But those moments of freedom are so important, those moments to reconnect with the girl inside of you that can feel free with their girls.
GL: So, there aren’t as many Pussycat Dolls as there were before — what’s it like working as a trio?
Kimberly: The Pussycat Dolls has been an ever-changing lineup, and it just so happens with our history that we have ruptured, but now we repair. I think repair is so important, to not walk around with anything left unfinished. And there are some brilliant Pussycat Dolls in this world that we will continually try to make very proud. But it’s a power of three in 2026, and we feel really unified.
Nicole: You never know what Pussycat Dolls will look like next year. It’s PCD forever, baby.
GL: Nicole, what’s it like coming back to PCD after such amazing success as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard on the West End and on Broadway?
Nicole: For three years, I got to eat, breathe and sleep the theatre, which is my first love. It was an answered prayer to be able to take the West End on and have my first time on Broadway with this unbelievable role in this unbelievable production. Now all of that is said and done, and there was just something inside of me that was like, ‘Okay. Wait, I’ve done that. Now I miss the stage with the girls'. This just fulfils a completely different side of me.
GL: Have you found it easy jumping back into the PCD formation together?
Kimberly: I don’t get nervous very often. But when we stepped in for our first photo shoot, and we hadn't seen each other in a while, it was the first time I felt like I was shaking a little bit. And it wasn’t that I was nervous to see them, but it’s ‘The Pussycat Dolls’ – these women mean so much to me. It’s been so nice, having dinners, hanging out, these days of press. There is just something so special about not seeing someone, but as soon as you step right back in, it just links, and it just works.
Ashley: It’s kind of crazy because we haven’t been together in how many years, but we still finish each other’s sentences. We still say the same things. We still think alike. We grew up together.
GL: What are you looking forward to most on tour?
Kimberly: There is nothing so powerful as that first time you set [foot] on stage and hear the roar of the people that showed up for you — feeding off that energy is the most amazing feeling in the world. And the fact that we get to experience this together — we bring out the best in each other. There's nothing like being able to share the stage with these women. I can't wait.
Nicole: But the fact that we’re gonna be on tour with Mya and Lil Kim? Oh my gosh…
Ashley: If you would’ve told me also that I was going on the road with Mya and Lil Kim when I was younger, I’d be like ‘No way!’.
The Pussycat Dolls’ new single, Club Song is out now. Pre-sale for the PCD Forever tour begins on Wednesday 18th March, with general sale opening on Friday 20th March.
