Just before the opening bounce of the 2018 AFL grand final, fans were entertained while they enjoyed their footy pies (and beers) with a set from American bandThe Black Eyed Peas.

By all accounts, the performance was decent. Will.I.Am, Apl.de.ap and Taboo gave the people what they wanted, playing their 2000s hits includingWhere Is The Love?,Let’s Get It StartedandI Gotta Feeling.

Many woohoos were sung and fun was had by all, but there wassomething missingfrom the pre-match entertainment.

Something so very important, it had punters turning to their mates, and their Twitter accounts, to ask one pressing question:

Where is the…. Fergie?

Anyone else missing Fergie??? #aflgf

— Johanna Griggs (@JohGriggs7) September 29, 2018

“Where’s Fergie?” #AFLGF pic.twitter.com/CJHdiY6lXw

— 7AFL (@7AFL) September 29, 2018

Anyone else disappointed that the Black Eyed Peas came here without Fergie? ???? #AFLGrandFinal #AFLGF

— Nicole Dilworth (@NictotheD) September 29, 2018

Fergie looks different ????

— Casey Conway (@caseyconway_) September 29, 2018

Where is the love? More like where is the Fergie?

— Daniel Cherny ???? (@DanielCherny) September 29, 2018

I’m sorry but nobody cares about the Black Eyed Peas without Fergie. #AFLGrandFinal

— Andrew (@AndrewPatrick_) September 29, 2018

Biggest outs today: -Gaff -Nic Nat -Fergie #AFLGF

— Sportsbet.com.au (@sportsbetcomau) September 29, 2018

The last time many of us thought aboutThe Black Eyed Peas, Stacie ‘Fergie’ Ferguson was front and centre singing those darn catchy choruses.

She put the humps inMy Humps. The funk inDon’t Funk With My Heart, if you will.

But despite ‘leaving’ the band in 2011, precisely no one in Australia knewThe Black Eyed Peasare now just three peas, not four.

So, where did Fergie go? And…why?!

Fergie first joinedThe Black Eyed Peasin 2002, pushing the band that had been a trio for several years beforehand into mainstream music charts.

For almost 10 years, all four members enjoyed great success, releasing four albums. During that time, Fergie released her first solo albumThe Duchessin 2006and married actor and now-ex-husband Josh Duhamel in 2009.

Two years after Fergie’s solo debut, the band announced they were going on hiatus to ‘work on solo projects’ in 2011.

Last year, six years after going their own ways, Will.I.Am, Apl.de.ap and Taboo started touring and releasing music. Fergie was nowhere to be seen.

Can't we just go back to the good ole days? Image: Instagram.

In an interview with Ahlan Live, Will.I.Am appeared to suggest Fergie was just one of many seasonal female vocalists the band rotated in and out, rather than a permanent member.

“Since the beginning of Black Eyed Peas, we’ve always had amazing vocalists that appeared on the mic with us. People like Macy Gray, Esthero, Debi Nova, Fergie. Obviously Fergie was the featured female, but we’ll always work with good females," he said.

Speaking to The Daily Telegraph,he also said the band would not be performing 'Fergie-heavy' songs moving forward.

"We are not doingMy Humpson the tour, we are not doingDon’t Funk With My Heart. Songs that are heavy Ferg we won't do," he said.

"Those [Fergie-centred songs] are just three songs, there are lots more. LikePump It, she doesn’t have that big of a part,Boom Boom Pow, not that big of a part,I Got A Feeling, not that big of a part."

Which kind of sounds a little salty BUT then here's photo evidence that The Black Eyed Peas hung out together on the US Fourth of July holiday.

And they look like they like each other.

fourth w the fam @bep pic.twitter.com/ksQEgz3imf

— Fergie (@Fergie) July 5, 2018

Which brings us back to why Fergie didn't make the trip out to Australia to perform withThe Black Eyed Peas.

According to her social media accounts, Fergie's been touring recently in Bali and Canada, and coaching on a reality TV music show calledThe Four.

She was also very busy dancing in an all-gold sparkly Tom Ford outfit just two days ago.

That's all we've got.

Considering flights from LA to Melbourne were probably a bargain compared to what West Coast Eagles fans had to pay to come from Perth, it's just not good enough, is it?

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