How did we survive without them?

Yes, it's true: The Five comeback is on.

With four of them.

Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson, Abs Breen and Jason "J" Brown have all been rounded up - we picutre Abs going round like Adrian Edmondson in Happy Families, reuniting them - and are back.

They're not going to call themselves Four (or 4our), though:

Robinson said that would not prompt a name change, adding: "Five's a brand not a number."

No... we're pretty sure it's a number. One, two, three, four... yes, Five.

What can we expect?

"I just hope everybody is going to want to hear our stuff and see what we are doing now," Brown told BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat.

"Five years later it's going to be a little bit different - not kind of arms in the air - but we are still a full-on pop band, and we are really looking forward to it."

So, it's not "arms in the air" - by which we understand that if they want to leave the stage to go to the toilet, they'll just go without asking permission first.

But is this little more than the unemployable in search of past glories? No, no, no, said Ritchie, stuffing his pockets with the free mints:

"We're not clutching at straws. We don't need the money. We're going to be back bigger than ever."

If they don't need the money - and who doesn't believe them - we would challenge them to prove that by offering to hand any cash they might make over to a charity. Unlss Ritchie was lying, of course.

There's good cause for this reunion, too:

"We're just coming back because why shouldn't we have another crack at the madness?" Brown added.

Yes. That's the perfect reason. Madness and crack.

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