Appleton was a Canadian musical duo composed of sisters

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and

Nicole Appleton Nicole Marie Appleton (born 7 December 1974) is a Canadian singer and television presenter. She is a member of the British girl group All Saints and Canadian duo Appleton with her elder sister Natalie Appleton. Early life Appleton was born ...

. The sisters are better known as members of the

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All Saints.

Biography

Natalie and Nicole Appleton were born in 1973 and 1974 respectively to their British mother Mary and their

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father, Ken. They also have two elder sisters, Lori and Lee. Their parents divorced in the late 1970s, and the sisters switched frequently between their mother's native United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. Both attended Ellenville High School in upstate New York. They stayed in Britain eventually, and became students at the

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in North London, which was to tutor their fellow All Saints colleague and Nic's schoolmate,

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as well as Denise van Outen,

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and

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. The sisters were back in the UK in 1994, and, together with

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, joined with former schoolmate

to form All Saints. In 2000, both sisters appeared in the poorly received film '' Honest'', directed by ex-

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member Dave Stewart. In 2001, All Saints disbanded. Natalie and Nicole formed the band Appleton, and in September 2002, issued their first single "

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", written with Andy Hayman and Gareth Young, which reached number 2 in the

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. Their autobiography, ''Together'', came out in October 2002. The sisters releases stated that director

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announced he would direct the autobiographical book into a film, but that has yet to happen. In 2003, they had two more hits with " Don't Worry" and " Everything Eventually" and the album, '' Everything's Eventual'' which went gold in the UK after just two months. They decided to sign a deal with Concept Music in late 2004 because of differences with their previous label,

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. In 2004, Natalie appeared on '' I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!''. In 2007, Nicole was a presenter on the UK reality show ''

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''. All Saints reformed in 2006; by then the Appleton enterprise had ceased.

Group members

Natalie Appleton

Natalie Appleton Natalie Jane Appleton Howlett (born 14 May 1973) is a Canadian singer. She is a member of the British girl group All Saints and the duo Appleton with her younger sister Nicole Appleton. Appleton joined All Saints in 1996, becoming the fourth ...

was born 14 May 1973 in

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, Canada and married

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in June 2002. She has a daughter born in May 1992 and a son born in March 2004.

Nicole Appleton

was born 7 December 1974 in

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, Canada and was married to

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. They have a son who was born in July 2001.

Discography

and '' All Saints discography'' *'' Everything's Eventual'' (2003)

References

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