Mutya Sets The Record Straight

"I've already explained to people: I will not hold back my mouth for no one," announces Mutya Buena, with the sort of no-nonsense defiance you'd expect from a girl who sports a diamond stud above her lip. "At the end of the day, I've kept quiet for the past two years, and I've not said nothing. I could have if I wanted to, but I don't believe in blagging."

Buena is determined to set the record straight - but she's endearingly good-humoured about it all. Yes, she'll tell it like it is, but no, she's not a bitch. She doesn't hate new babe Amelle Berrabah ("I have never once said that she is a clone because, one, she doesn't sound like me, and, two, she doesn't look like me") and certainly didn't use her baby daughter, Tahlia, as an excuse to leave the band. "Obviously, I'm going to choose my daughter over my career," she reasons. "My career means a lot to me, but it doesn't mean that much."

Things have always seemed tumultuous with the Sugas ever since original member Siobhan Donaghy bid farewell in 2001 amid claims that she was being bullied. Even when Heidi Range joined the crew, Buena admits she didn't initially warm to her. But now that the 22-year-old is on the other side, she can see things a lot more clearly. "Now that I'm not with the Sugababes, I realise that we are very different people and I think it actually takes for you to move on with your life to realise certain things. We are totally different people. I can see where we would clash."

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