JADE Thirlwall was left speechless by a savage The Assembly question as she was forced to open up about the dark side of Little Mix.
Jade is one of four celebrities on ITV’s new series, where she was questioned by interviewers who are autistic, neurodivergent or learning disabled — with no topics off limits.
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Little Mix have been one of X Factor’s most successful acts, and the girlband, Jade, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Perrie Edwards and Jesy Nelson, racked up 19 top ten singles, since their talent show win.
But Jade, who has embarked on a solo career, was left flustered when one man asked: “A lot of X Factor winners have sold their soul.
“Do you regret selling yours?”
After laughing nervously and struggling to answer, Jade confessed: “You’ve trumped me . . . Maybe a little bit in the beginning.
“I was so young and I just signed on the dotted line.
“But as the years have gone by I’ve learned more and more about the industry.
“I’ve been collecting — a bit like Thanos with the stones — I’ve been collecting parts of my soul back.”
Jade was the last of her Little Mix bandmates to put out material following their hiatus in May 2022.
But Jade’s debut has been the most successful of the three and she has already won a Brit Award and landed a coveted spot performing at Glastonbury this year.
Meanwhile, during a previous episode of The Assembly, Danny Dyer admitted his wife Jo deserved better when she kicked him out the house for his wild drug-fuelled partying.
A woman referred to his split from Joanne Mas and asked: “When Jo kicked you out she emptied your shared joint bank account, do you still have a shared bank account now?”
Danny replied: “I was a p***k and she deserved better.
“Sometimes I’d go out, get off my head, take drugs; I wouldn’t come home for three days.
“She had every right to throw me out. She controls everything now.”
Danny and Joanne got together in 1992, and have three children – Love Island’s Dani, 27, daughter Sunnie, 17, and son Arty, six.
The Former EastEnders star was also called out for sending his son Arty to a posh school – despite being known as a hardman from London’s East End.
“How working-class was it to send your son to a private school?” asked one audience member.
Danny replied: “I’m very proud of my roots, but do I want to be living in an environment where, especially at the moment where there’s helicopters going over my house all the time and sirens all the time, a lot of crime? Of course you don’t.
“So what you want to do is, you want to earn some money and then move to a better area where you can bring your children up.
“When you have kids, you want to give them everything you can, sometimes it backfires on you slightly because now they’re not street-wise.
“I walked everywhere as a kid or I had to get a bus.
“I don’t think they’ve ever been on a f***ing bus, my kids.
“They don’t have to, do they? Because they get driven door to door by a Bentley.”
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The Assembly airs on ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV Player.