Former Destiny's Child star Kelly Rowland has labelled her former bandmate Beyonce Knowles a "slob".
The 26-year-old told music website urbanplanet.co.uk that touring with the hugely successful three-piece became nightmarish because of the slovenly habits of Beyonce and Michelle Williams.
Though Rowland refused to rule out the chance of a Destiny's Child reunion, her comments suggest she is delighted to be touring solo, ahead of the release of her new album Ms Kelly.
"They're both slobs," she explained. "We would get on a tour bus and they'd flick off their shoes. And I’d be like, 'No! That’s the corner for shoes!'
"I'm a neat freak. I make them crazy," she added.
Rowland, who sold over 100 million records with Destiny's Child, admitted to feeling frustration at continual comparisons with her glamorous bandmate, saying: "People should respect me in my own solo right."
The singer also rubbished recent rumours that she's been dating Radio 1 DJ Reggie Yates.
Rowland has been linked with Yates while promoting her new single Work but laughed off the claims, saying the former Top of the Pops presenter isn't her type.
"He's not tall, dark and handsome! He's tall, bright, and… I guess cute? Reggie's more like a friend. We were just hanging out at a party and exchanged information," she said.
"I've been linked to three British men here," she continued. "And it's ok because you know it happens, I'm gonna be linked with someone else by the end of the year. Who cares?"
Rowland also admitted that while she loves the Destiny's Child smash Say My Name, the songs Bootylicious and Bug A Boo became further reasons to look forward to a solo career.
COMPLETE with a distinctly Middle Eastern overhaul courtesy of remixers Freemasons, Work is the track Kelly Rowland's been waiting to release.
One part of Destiny's Child, Kelly's struggled to live up to the solo success of her bandmates - so what's changed?
Well, Work is a strutting piece of urgent R'n'B complete with bongos and even Mexican horns that's a million miles from the schmaltz Kelly's driven since her Destiny days.
So far, in fact, that CityLife suspects Kelly's been rummaging around in Beyonce's groovy drawer - and struck gold.
The headlines last summer mentioned dehydration as a reason for Kelly Rowland's collapse on stage during a concert in Lagos, Nigeria, but the singer now says that the six-hour time difference may have also been a factor.
"I was exhausted. Not only that but the time difference threw me off and I was jet-lagged," said the former Destiny's Child singer. "And I stayed up all night on the phone."
Rowland recently competed in NBC's four-night reality show competition "Clash of the Choirs," where fellow celebs Patti LaBelle, Blake Shelton, Michael Bolton and eventual winner Nick Lachey formed choirs in their respective hometowns and battled each other for charity.
The Houston-based choir led by Rowland was voted out in the first round, however, NBC rewarded all four losing choirs $50,000 for their local charities.
Rowland's cash prize went directly to Bread of Life, a non-profit organization associated with her church, St. John's United Methodist. Kelly and Beyonce Knowles donated over $250,000 to augment the church's work and outreach in the community.
As previously reported, the organization now has a transitional housing unit named in their honor, The Knowles-Rowland Temenos Place Apartments, where at-risk families, the homeless, persons with HIV/AIDS, and developmentally disabled receive free temporary or long-term housing.
If you thought that the year couldn't get any worse for R&B star Kelly Rowland - you'd be wrong. MediaTakeOut.com spoke with one of Kelly's neighbors in a luxury Miami condominium complex. And according to her, the former Destiny's Child star lost millions of dollars in a real estate investment.The woman, who purchased a condo in the same building as Kelly Rowland last year, claims that property values in the area are precipitously dropping. The insider told MediaTakeOut.com, "When we bought in this building, it was supposed to be ultra-exclusive ... [The builders] promised us that they would only sell the homes for market value. Now it seems like it was all just a scam."And the woman claims the downturn in the real estate market has already cost her more $1M. The disgruntled investor explains to MediaTakeOut.com, "I paid more than $2 million for the condo, and [based on] the floor and the size of [Kelly's] unit, I know she paid more than I did." She continues, "A condo exactly like Kelly's is now selling for around $600K at auction."
Former Destiny's Child star Kelly Rowland has labelled her former bandmate Beyonce Knowles a "slob".
