He recently put up his 2000 Brit Award for Best Newcomer on eBay, to which he received a response from a willing bidder.
But things didn’t go to plan for Paul Cattermole, as the bidder failed to pay the worth of the iconic gong – originally up for £65,000 – which forced the former S Club 7 star to put his award back on the market.
This comes after the 40-year-old revealed his intentions for selling the prestigious award – a result of a bad injury during his stint The Rocky Horror Picture Show which left him out of work.
‘I was in a bad way’: Former S Club 7 star Paul Cattermole, 40, has revealed the real reason as to why he put his BRIT award up on eBay – confessing that a bad injury left him out of work
Preventing a repeated occurrence, the St Albans native captioned the eBay image: ‘No time wasters please.’
Referring to the former buyer, he added: ‘He just wanted to wreck my sale!’
He also claimed the statuette is in a very good condition: ‘Grab yourself a bargain! Everyone thinks it’s sold!’
This follows on from his original offer on the selling site earlier this month – which racked up over 127 bids for the glittering music award.
MailOnline has contacted Paul’s representatives for comment.
Nostalgic: S Club 7 were a huge success with a series of top ten singles, including Bring It All Back, Reach and Never Had A Dream Come True
He recently told NME his reasons for auctioning the gong: ‘There an un-choreographed bit of dancing and someone fell on me. I was out of the show for about two months. My back has gone – it hasn’t been right since.’
Paul continued: ‘Things just haven’t gone well this year (in terms of finding work) with that injury.
He also reportedly signed up for ITV favourite I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! for extra money but was turned down due to ‘not being famous enough.’
Speaking on the first time he put up the award, he admitted: ‘Four days from it going up, it hadn’t really moved much from around £3,000. And then it went to £9,000. Within the space of an hour, it went up to £60,000!’
Other than ‘paying bills’, Paul went on to detail what he would have done with the large sum of money, revealing he would love to record a Motown album.
Speaking to NME, the former singer confessed: ‘There an un-choreographed bit of dancing during The Rocky Horror Picture Show and someone fell on me. I was out of the show for about two months’
Trying hard: He also reportedly signed up for ITV favourite I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! for extra money but was turned down due to ‘not being famous enough’
The Reach hitmaker took to social media to express his thanks as he believed he sold the gong, writing ‘Shocked , stunned , amazed . Astonished . Dumbfounded . Flabbergasted.! Thankyou to everyone for you support. . I love you’
He wrote on the listing: ‘I didn’t expect it too skyrocket like this. Thanks for all the interest peeps.’
Paul originally listed the gong on the auctioning site for £650 on 5th January with a meagre three people bidding for it – years after 5ive’s Abz Love pocketed £1million for his gong.
Sad: The Reach hitmaker took to social media to express his thanks as he believed he sold the gong, writing ‘Shocked , stunned , amazed . Astonished . Dumbfounded . Flabbergasted.! Thankyou to everyone for you support. . I love you’
‘Very good condition’: Paul listed the gong on the auctioning site for £650 on 5th January with a meagre three people bidding for it – raising it to £690
S Club 7 were a huge success with a series of top ten singles, including Bring It All Back, Reach and Never Had A Dream Come True.
And while the band disbanded in 2003, Paul has revealed that things were far from smooth during the height of their fame.
He also put on a frame he received for S Club 7’s album going platinum in New Zealand, which has a starting bid of £200.
Success: Three years ago 5ive’s Abz Love also put his BRIT award on eBay and pocketed £1million
Moving on: The band were at the top of their game in the early 2000s
‘Signs of age’: Paul has shared a number of pictures of their BRIT award trophy from different angles and has described its condition as ‘very good’
Extra money: He also put on a frame he received for S Club 7’s album going platinum in New Zealand, which has a starting bid of £200
This comes after Paul opened up about the demise of his relationship with Hannah in 2006 – blaming it on her bid for Hollywood fame, which left him wondering if she was the ‘same person’.
Speaking of Hannah, the former singer told The Sun: ‘I very much felt she thought she needed to prioritise her career.’
Hannah was only 12 and Paul was 17 when they met for the first time in 1994 and entered into a relationship seven years later, which lasted for five years.
Lashing out: This comes after Paul opened up about the demise of his relationship with Hannah in 2006 – blaming it on her bid for Hollywood fame, which left him wondering if she was the ‘same person’
Speaking of Hannah, who went on to pursue a high-profile romance with Andrew-Lee Potter shortly after their relationship ended, the former singer told The Sun: ‘I very much felt she thought she needed to prioritise her career’
However, Paul was reportedly left blindsided after the blonde called it quits on their romance – leaving him to now look back and reflect on the possibility of Hollywood casting directors having a say in who she should and shouldn’t date.
He continued: ‘I’m betting she was told, “So your current boyfriend is doing music stuff. Well, that’s great, but you really need an actor boyfriend.”
‘She was much more impressionable then than she is now so I reckon if an agent told her to ditch me then she might have listened,’ he admitted.
Despite their less than amicable split, Paul fondly remembers the good times in the romance – admitting they were ‘passionate’ and would ‘steal kisses and cuddles in the dressing rooms.’
S Club 7 were a huge success with a series of top ten singles, including Bring It All Back, Reach and Never Had A Dream Come True.
Hannah, now 36, previously confessed to earning £600,000 over a four-year period with the band, although ‘she didn’t really realise’ how much this was at the time.
She revealed that because of her lack of life experience, she had no real appreciation of how fortunate she was at the height of the band’s popularity.
Meanwhile, former members, Jo O’Meara, Tina Barrett and Bradley McIntosh have re-grouped as SC3.
Giving it another go: Meanwhile, former members, Jo O’Meara, Tina Barrett and Bradley McIntosh have re-grouped as SC3