Girls Aloud

Girls Aloud

Cheryl Cole

Cheryl Ann Cole (née Tweedy, born 30 June 1983) is a British singer and member of the band Girls Aloud. As part of Girls Aloud and as a featuring artist, Cole has had 21 UK Top Ten singles.

In 2008, Cole became a judge on the British reality TV show The X Factor. She is married to the Chelsea and England football player Ashley Cole.

Biography Early life and career Cheryl Tweedy was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England and lived in a suburb called Heaton.

She is one of five children - one younger brother, Garry, and two half-brothers - Andrew and Joseph, and one half-sister Gillian.

In addition to dancing, Cheryl won many modelling competitions, including Boots Group's bonniest baby, Mothercare Happy Faces Portrait competition, Best Looking Girl of Newcastle, The Evening Chronicle 'Little Miss & Mister' and Most Attractive Girl at the MetroCentre. She also appeared in two British Gas adverts, an SCS advert, and an Eldon Square Christmas advert with younger brother Garry. Interested in dancing from an early age, Cole joined the Royal Ballet's summer school at the age of nine. She sang, modelled and appeared in recitals on some television shows.

In 2008, Cole was voted number 7 in FHM's 100 sexiest women 2008 poll. In February 2009, Cole appeared on the cover of British Vogue.

Girls Aloud Cheryl auditioned for Popstars: The Rivals in 2002, singing S Club 7's "Have You Ever". She was the first person to be chosen for Girls Aloud which has gone on to be one of the most successful British pop groups of the decade.

Collaboration with Will.I.Am After taking streetdancing classes during the filming of Passions of Girls Aloud series, Cole was picked to appear in the music video for Will.I.Am's single "Heartbreaker". She was later asked to sing additional vocals on the track. The song was released in the UK on 5 May 2008, but had already entered the top ten on download sales, peaking at number 4 in the UK Singles Chart.

The X Factor On 10 June 2008, it was announced Cole would replace Sharon Osbourne as a judge for the fifth series of The X Factor.

A week before the 2008 series, in a 9 August 2008 interview with Cosmopolitan (magazine) magazine, Cole's fellow judge Dannii Minogue said she believed Cole could bring a new side to the talent show: "One week Cheryl was talking about urban music and telling Simon Cowell 'This is what the show needs; this is where you've been going wrong'." Cheryl was given the Girls category, subsequently ending up as the winning judge, with Alexandra Burke winning the show on 13 December 2008.

Personal life On 11 January 2003, Cheryl was involved in an altercation with a nightclub toilet attendant, Sophie Amogbokpa, in "The Drink" nightclub in Guildford (now called "Harper's"). Cole was subsequently charged with racially aggravated assault (she had allegedly called Amogbokpa a "jigaboo") and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. During her trial Cheryl claimed she acted in self defence (claiming she had been punched first) and denied using racially abusive language.

The jury found her guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, but cleared her of racially aggravated assault. The judge sentenced her to 120 hours of community service and ordered her to pay her victim £500 in compensation, as well as £3,000 prosecution costs.

In July 2006, Tweedy married footballer Ashley Cole in Barnet, North West London.

Kimberley Walsh

Kimberley Jane Walsh (born 20 November 1981) is an English singer for the pop group Girls Aloud. Walsh also acted as band-mate Cheryl Cole's advisor on The X Factor during the judges' houses stage of the show, helping Cole to decide who to put through to the live shows.

Biography Walsh was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire to Diane and John Walsh. She grew up with elder sister Sally, younger brother Adam and younger sister Amy in the suburb of Allerton.. Walsh's eldest sister, Sally, appeared on the soap opera, Emmerdale, between 1997 and 2000, playing the role of Lyn Hutchinson.

Walsh attended Sandy Lane First School, Stoney Lee Middle School and Beckfoot Grammar Secondary School, and had her first taste of fame starring in an advert as a child along with sister Jennifer in a George for ASDA advert. She starred as Young Cosette in the West End production of Les Misérables. Walsh also attended the Bradford based theatre school Stage 84 for many years. In 2000 she auditioned for the role of Maria Sutherland in the soap opera Coronation Street, losing out to Samia Smith. Later she appeared in the television series This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper as Gillian Oldfield, and in the same year she starred in a BBC Educational Schools programme called Focus. In 2001, Walsh played Tracy in Dream Back, and in 2008 she and fellow band mate; nicola roberts had a small part in brittania high.

Personal life Walsh previously dated footballer Martin Pemberton for three years. In an extract from Dreams that Glitter - Our Story, she described him as her 'first love'. The couple decided to split due to them living too far apart and having busy work schedules.

Walsh is currently dating and living with Triple 8 singer Justin Scott, and have been dating for 5 years. Episode 5 of Girls Aloud: Off the Record featured a segment where Scott and Walsh were

interviewed at their London residence which they had been sharing for about a year.

Rumours have circulated about the couple's engagment and Paul O'Grady approached the subject in a December 2008 interview on his show. Cheryl Cole then jokingly hinted at Scott to propose, and Walsh herself stated "I would love to have kids one day, I am getting broody...[but] I am not married yet so maybe we'll go one step at a time".

Walsh is a supporter of Bradford City.

Charity Challenge: BT Red Nose Climb 2009 and the Speaking Clock Nine celebrities are attempting to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for Comic Relief at the end of Feb 2009.

Between 03 Feb - 23 March 2009, Kimberley Walsh, Cheryl Cole, Gary Barlow, Chris Moyles, and Fearne Cotton also hope to raise money by lending their dulcet tones to the BT Speaking Clock. Dialling 123 is one of the ways BT hopes to raise more than £300,000, as the company will donate 10p for each call received from a BT landline.

Nadine Coyle

Nadine Elizabeth Louise Coyle (born 15 June 1985 in Derry, Northern Ireland) is an Irish1 singer for the pop group Girls Aloud. She was born to Lillian and Niall Coyle, with two sisters,

Charmaine and Rachael.

Early career Before finding fame, Coyle recorded a demo CD which was distributed to Louis Walsh (now an ex-manager of Girls Aloud) and The Late Late Show. This songs included "Fields Of Gold", "Somewhere Over The Rainbow", "Love Is" and "Summertime". The demo CD is very rare as only a few copies were made (Coyle gave most to her friends and family); one found its way onto eBay and earned a high price.

Coyle first found fame in 2001 when, while attending Thornhill College, Derry, she entered the Irish version of the talent show Popstars. As one of the winners of the show, Coyle was selected to become a member of the group Six. Shortly after the group was formed, the members moved into a house together and all were interviewed on camera.

Coyle was 16 years old and the minimum age for the group was 18. Whilst writing her date of birth, 15 June 1985, was told to change the birth date to 1983. She had already told people her real age before getting into the band, and was angry she still been allowed, so she spoke up about it and was dropped from the group, and returned to her secondary grammar school, Thornhill College.

Six's first single, "Whole Lot Of Loving", went on to become the fastest-selling single in Irish history. It was later beaten by Leona Lewis's single Bleeding Love in 2007.

Girls Aloud In 2002 Coyle returned to enter the UK talent show Popstars: The Rivals at the invitation of manager, Louis Walsh. As she got through the first few rounds, her first fansite opened. She polled the third-highest number of votes in the final and was chosen to join the group Girls Aloud.

During the series, she had been a hot favourite to make the group. When asked to name a highlight from the show, presenter Davina McCall simply answered "Nadine".

The group's first single "Sound of the Underground" was released in December 2002 and went to number one in the UK and Ireland.

With Girls Aloud she has scored 20 top 10 singles (four of which have been #1s) and five platinum albums (including a #1) and a #1 Greatest Hits album. Nadine is often seen as "the voice" of the band and has the most vocal experience in the group, having taken part in and won two series of Popstars, the only person in the world to do so. Nadine has showed off her vocal talent several times whilst on UK tours with her band mates.

Louis Walsh has promised to make Nadine a solo star if and when Girls Aloud go their separate ways. However, she has constantly denied reports she will leave the girl group to become a solo artist.

Nadine has also co-written a few songs whilst in the group, including:

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"100 Different Ways" (What Will the Neighbours Say?)

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"Why Do It" (B-side to I Think We're Alone Now)

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"Sexy! No, No, No..."

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"Love Is Pain" (Out Of Control)

Nadine has also co-written other songs with Girls Aloud, however she is the only one who has written some of their material on her own.

Other work Coyle filmed a cameo appearance in Natasha Bedingfield's video for "I Wanna Have Your Babies" in Los Angeles.2 In 2007, Coyle and the other members of Girls Aloud made a cameo appearance as schoolgirls in the film St. Trinian's. The theme song of the official movie soundtrack that she recorded with her bandmates reached number 51 in the UK charts. Coyle also appeared on Keith Barry's show The Great Escape which aired on ITV on 29 December 2007.3 She was reportedly approached by Gillette to advertise their female range of razors.4 She confirmed in an interview on Paul O'Grady's chat show that she has purchased a bar on Sunset Beach, California.

Coyle has made FHM's "100 Sexiest Females" list for the past six years, reaching her highest ranking in 2007. FHM Rankings:

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2003 - Ranked 87

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2004 - Ranked 46

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2005 - Ranked 35

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2006 - Ranked 45

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2007 - Ranked 26

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2008 - Ranked 43

Sarah Harding

Sarah Nicole Harding (born 17 November 1981 in Ascot) is an English model, actress and singer for the pop group Girls Aloud.

Early career Harding attended Hazel Grove High School from 1993 to 1998, and later attended Stockport College. She then worked as part of the promotions team for 2 nightclubs in The Grand Central Leisure Park in Stockport. Harding was also a regular singer at karaoke nights in the Whistling Jig, Puss and Boots pub as well as many others and did some vocals for Project G on some unreleased tracks. Project G was a band for which Harding provided lead vocals, long before Girls Aloud came along. She did some photoshoots for promotion but no album, nor known singles exist. Some tracks that have leaked onto the internet include "Searching" and "Don't Wanna Be Alone". She entered the UK talent-search show Popstars: The Rivals.

Harding also entered FHM's High Street Honeys 2002 number 61, the magazine's national beauty contest, and her pictures appeared in the first Top 100, but she later withdrew, upon achieving success on Popstars. A year later, she was voted one of the Top 30 sexiest women in the world, by readers of the same magazine. In 2005, she entered the same Top 10 at Number 8, slipping to Number 15 in 2006, and to Number 17 in 2007. She however, is also the twice running Miss England.

Girls Aloud In the finale of the "Popstars" show, she was picked as the final member of the five-piece group, Girls Aloud, that formed the female half of the eponymous 'rivals'. She defeated Javine Hylton for the final place, in a result that provoked a measure of surprise.

As a member of Girls Aloud, Harding has taken part in many events and TV shows, such as the 25 August 2006 episode of The Friday Night Project. Harding co-hosted the show with Cheryl Cole, and Kimberley Walsh and then a Christmas special with Nicola Roberts and Nadine Coyle joining them.

She co-wrote two songs since in the group:

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Hear Me Out [What Will The Neighbours Say?]

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Why Do It? [b-side to I Think We're Alone Now]

Solo songs

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Don't Wanna Be Alone (as Project G)

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Higher Than The Sun (as Project G)

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Searching (as Project G)

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Real Wild Child (Wild Child soundtrack)

Other work Outside of Girls Aloud, Harding signed a £100,000 deal to model Ultimo lingerie, following the likes of Penny Lancaster, Rachel Hunter and Helena Christensen. Reports claim that Harding was chosen to model the underwear range after she was seen wearing a bikini on holiday in the papers.

Harding has filmed a cameo appearance in a British independent film Bad Day, which was released in 2008. She plays a brunette girl called Jade Jennings who sits in the back of a cab and swears down the phone. The film also stars Donna Air and Claire Goose. Harding has recently been seen as the face of Coca-Cola Zero, upon its launch in Ireland. She will also advertise and

promote Sunsilk with the rest of Girls Aloud.

It was reported that Harding would appear in a new Carry On film.

Harding collaborated with London synthpop band Filthy Dukes on the track "Real Wild Child" for the Wild Child soundtrack. It was released in August 2008. Harding sparked rumours with the move that she would be leaving Girls Aloud to pursue a solo career, a rumour she later denied.

Sarah was also complimented on her driving skills during a test drive for Fifth Gear, and also crashed a Ferrari into a parked minivan while exiting the car park.

Nicola Roberts

Nicola Roberts (born Nicola Maria Roberts, 5 October 1985, Stamford, Lincolnshire) is an English singer and make up designer, most famous for being the youngest member of pop group Girls Aloud. She is also known for creating the beauty range Dainty Doll.

Girls Aloud Girls Aloud were formed after auditioning for a UK TV show, Popstars: The Rivals. Roberts was originally eliminated before the final stage, but was brought back into the final ten after another contestant, Nicola Ward, pulled out of the show after objecting to the show's contract. Roberts started her career singing with a girl group at her local discotheque with a local DJ. During the Popstars: The Rivals, she sang "River Deep - Mountain High", "Shout", "Wind Beneath My Wings" and "I'm So Excited". She became the second girl to join Girls Aloud. In 2008, Roberts made a cameo appearance in the re-make of the St. Trinians film, playing the part of a schoolgirl

with the other members of Girls Aloud, filmed in Spring 2007 and also in Britannia High with band mate Kimberley Walsh. As a member of Girls Aloud, Roberts has taken part in many events and TV shows, such as the 21 December 2007 episode of The Friday Night Project. Roberts cohosted the show with the rest of the band.

Since Girls Aloud were formed Roberts has co-written two of the group's album tracks and two bsides;

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"It's Magic" (Chemistry album)

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"I Say A Prayer For You" (What Will the Neighbours Say? album)

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"I Don't Really Hate You" ("See the Day" single)

Other projects Nicola is now going to be the new face of Vivienne Westwood. They stated that they were very impressed with her unique look. She has also launched her own makeup range, Dainty Doll.

Personal life Roberts grew up in Runcorn in the North West of England. She split with her boyfriend of 5 years, Carl Egerton, in December 2006, citing her hectic work life as the reason for the split.

Roberts later dated Carl Davies, and the pair announced that they planned to marry. However, they have since broken up.

Roberts stated: "For years I felt like the ugly one in Girls Aloud. I was tall, skinny, with red hair and the whitest skin you've ever seen - standing next to four of the most gorgeous girls in Britain."

She considered turning to alcohol and drugs to cope with her insecurities.

In an interview for the December 2008 issue of Sugar magazine, Roberts said to have self tanned every night and every day her make up artist would paint her entire body the same colour as fellow band members Kimberley Walsh and Cheryl Cole. Roberts told the magazine: "I stopped faking it, and started to love being me."

On the ITV2 show The Passions Of Girls Aloud, Roberts' passion was to create a make-up range for girls with pale skin. The make-up range is called Dainty Doll.