The pain of the recently forgotten

Having built up their band the hard way - stage school and then closed auditions - you'd imagine that All Saints might be a little grumpy viewing the ease with which Girls Aloud came together.

More than a little:

Chatting to MTV's Tim Kash, MELANIE BLATT sarcastically said: "What Cheryl said is so true... because Jump For My Love is so where I wanna be.

"We could only aspire and dream to be like them. Hopefully one day we will achieve that. For now we will just have to make do with copying them."

SHAZNAY LEWIS then took a more serious tone, blasting: "In all honesty they are stupid little girls and we don't really give a fuck. That's the end of that."

With Nicole Appleton clapping in agreement, Shaz continued: "I don't want to talk about them anymore because I've got no respect for them..

"I don't want to waste any of my interview time talking about them."

They then continued to waste their time talking about them:

"We all have vaginas. That's about as similar as it gets."

Although we think we spotted Mel shifting awkwardly at this point.

We're sure the irony hasn't been lost on All Saints that the only thing people are interested in is their relationship with Girls Aloud, which is why that's all they're being asked about in interviews. Even although they've got more in common with Atomic Kitten.

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