Perrie Edwards Rules Out Little Mix Reunion With Jesy Nelson

Perrie Edwards has dismissed the possibility of Little Mix coming together as a four-piece any time soon.

The Think About Us singer first rose to fame as a contestant on The X Factor back in 2011, where she and fellow auditionees Jade Thirlwall, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jesy Nelson were put together in a girl group by the judges.

In the end, the quartet went on to win the show, and stayed together as Little Mix for almost a decade, until Jesy announced that she was leaving the band in December 2020 on mental health grounds.

After that, Little Mix remained together as a trio, before going on an indefinite hiatus in 2022.

Since then, Jade, Leigh-Anne and Perrie have all been adamant that they’ll reunite one day, which the latter spoke about during a new interview with Attitude magazine.

“I’m ready and raring,” Perrie enthused. “We always message each other and are bantering like, ‘So how long until we do a reunion? Are we going to do one? Where is it?’.”

She added: “I’m like, just give me a ballpark time. Do you know what I mean? Just let me know when.”

However, when pressed on whether it would involve Jesy, Perrie insisted the band would “definitely” be “a three” when they did come together.

Initially, the remaining members of Little Mix maintained that Jesy’s departure from the group was an amicable one, although this appeared not to be the case as time went on.

Reports around the release of Jesy’s debut solo single Boyz suggested that her former bandmates had all unfollowed her on social media, though unverified “leaked” DMs reportedly sent by Leigh-Anne Pinnock to a TikTok user later suggested that Jesy had, in fact, blocked the trio.

These alleged messages were never verified, nor did Leigh-Anne ever comment on them directly. However, they formed a major part of the conversation during an ill-fated Instagram live-stream Jesy took part in with her Boyz collaborator Nicki Minaj, in which the rapper branded Leigh-Anne a “fucking clown” and accused her of being “jealous” of Jesy.

Just over a year ago, Jesy became a mum to twin girls, Ocean Jade and Story Monroe.

She later disclosed that her daughters had been diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic condition characterised by weakness and wasting in the skeletal muscles, which can cause severe issues with movement.

Following this, Leigh-Anne confirmed earlier this year that she and the rest of Little Mix had “all reached out” to Jesy in light of the news, praising her as “really brave”.