Birmingham pop star Jamelia has laid into the WAGS. The singer - partner of Millwall footballer Darren Byfield - said they had empty lives.

"Footballers' wives don't do anything. All they do is spend their boyfriends' money," she told Cosmopolitan magazine.

"Their priorities are all wrong - you never see them with their kids, just with shopping bags. I have more respect for women who make their own money and aren't dependent on a man."

But the 25-year-old said Victoria Beckham, Cheryl Tweedy and Coleen McLoughlin were OK.

Beckham is "a business-woman", Tweedy "has a job" and McLoughlin has "actually started to do something with her fame".

Jamelia is not the first to stick the boot in. Girls Aloud singer Tweedy, set to wed England star Ashley Cole tomorrow, has also complained about the spendaholic Wives And Girlfriends.

In an interview she gave last summer - but reprinted last week - she said: "It really annoys me when people try to call me a footballer's wife. Footballers' wives have no careers and live off their husbands' money.

"I was in Girls Aloud before I met Ashley and have my own successful career. I'm not going to quit the band and sit around in the sun all day or go on shopping expeditions with Ashley's plastic.

"If I'm going shopping I'll pay with the money I've worked hard for. I would die of embarrassment if I had to resort to taking a boyfriend's cards."

Meanwhile, England footballer Peter Crouch's girlfriend Abigail Clancy has admitted that before she met him she had said in an interview her dream was "to marry a footballer, get pregnant and then shop and have fun" for the rest of her life.

Clancy also admitted to a cocaine-snorting past but said Liverpool striker Crouch was "100 per cent supportive" .

The 20-year-old was pictured in a newspaper taking the drug when she was an 18-year-old wannabe.