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Cheryl Ann
Cole, neé Tweedy, (born 30 June 1983) is an English singer and member of
the girl group Girls Aloud. She is married to the Chelsea and England
footballer Ashley Cole[1] and in an interview with OK! Magazine
published on 18 July 2006 she stated that she will be now be called
Cheryl Cole.
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Early career
She was born in
Newcastle upon Tyne. Throughout her childhood she performed in a large
number of modelling and fashion shows. She entered ballroom
competitions, sang, acted and won a ballet competition.
She won the
following competitions as a child: Boots 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 appeared in
two British Gas adverts, an SCS advert, and an Eldon Square Christmas
advert with younger brother Garry. In addition to Garry, Cheryl has
another two brothers and a sister.
Girls Aloud
She was working
as a waitress when she entered the UK talent-search show Popstars The
Rivals. In the final show she received the most votes in the poll to
choose the girls for the all-female group Girls Aloud, and was thus the
first to be picked for the group.
Nightclub incident and conviction
On 11 January
2003 Miss Cole was involved in an altercation with a nightclub toilet
attendant, Sophie Amogbokpa, in the Drink nightclub in Guildford. Cole
was subsequently charged with racially aggravated assault (she had
allegedly called Ms. Amogbokpa a "black bitch" among other racial slurs)
[2] and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. During her trial Cole
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[3]. The judge sentenced her to 120 hours of
community service and ordered to pay her victim £500 in compensation, as
well as £3000 prosecution costs.
Cole faced
criticism not only for the initial incident, but also for showing no
remorse whatsoever during the trial and for her subsequent public
statements apologising to her fans, record company and bandmates but
controversially refusing to apologise to Mrs Amogbokpa herself. Mrs
Amogbokpa considered launching a civil court action, but decided not to
proceed.
Miss Cole later
claimed to regret the incident, saying she admitted she acted
incorrectly under the influence of alcohol. She was angered by claims
she was racist, citing her friendship with Javine Hylton on Popstars as
apparent evidence she was not.
Media attention
Sometimes
referred to in the press as "Chezza", she has gained celebrity status
through her role in Girls Aloud and her good looks, coming second in the
FHM 100 Sexiest Women poll in 2005, beating the likes of Britney Spears
and her bandmates Sarah Harding and Nadine Coyle, only finishing behind
Kelly Brook. In 2006, she finished sixth, while in January of the same
year she topped a 'wish-list' poll run by Sun Online to identify the
female celebrities that readers would most like to appear topless on the
newspaper's Page 3. In July 2006 Cheryl signed a deal worth a reported
£200,000 to become the face of Coca-Cola Zero for its UK launch[4].
English singer Lily Allen has a song titled "Cheryl Tweedy", in which
Allen states she wishes she looked like Cheryl Tweedy.
Consequently,
her cache in the tabloids has been huge. For example, during a recording
at Top of the Pops, Mike Skinner of The Streets dedicated his song "When
You Wasn't Famous" to Cheryl, leading to much media speculation and many
believing the song was about her. Skinner later correcting everyone by
saying that he only dedicated the song to her because Girls Aloud were
at the same taping of TOTP[5].
Cheryl
co-presented the August 25, 2006 episode of The Friday Night Project
along with Kimberley Walsh and Sarah Harding, where she did impressions
of Sharon Osbourne and Big Brother 7 winner Pete Bennett.
During the
Germany 2006 World Cup where Cheryl was supporting fiance Ashley Cole,
Cheryl was continuously photographed with the wives and girlfriends of
other England football stars, and they made media frenzy with their wild
partying and shopping sprees. The British media deemed them the "WAGS"
(wives and girlfriends), and highly criticized their wild antics. Cheryl
later bashed the other WAGS, criticizing how they live off of their
husband or boyfriend's money, and did no work themselves. She made it
clear that she had a career with her band Girls Aloud before she ever
met Ashley, and does not need to "borrow his plastic" when she goes
shopping. However, she spared Victoria Beckham, stating that she's
"witty" and "ambitious" and that they have a lot in common, particularly
their careers in girl bands.
Cheryl is the
face of Coke Zero, a new drink from Coca-Cola.
Ashley Cole
Even before
marrying Ashley Cole, Cheryl won the title of "Sexiest Footballer's
Wife" in FHM's 2006 Bloke Awards, and as Cole's fiancée she was a
prominent "WAG" (acronym for "wives and girlfriends") during the 2006
FIFA World Cup in Germany. She however railed against the term,
emphasising that she had her own career [1].
She and Cole
were married at Wrotham Park, just north of Barnet, Hertfordshire on 15
July 2006 - although they were to marry at Highclere Castle, Berkshire
(according to a guard at the premises). When the two changed their
plans, Tweedy and Cole had asked the staff there to lie to the press and
not to disclose the fact they weren't actually getting married there.
Cheryl had a
dress designed by Roberto Cavalli, reportedly worth £100,000 (€145,562),
flown to England. The wedding was paid for by OK! Magazine, with whom
the couple signed a £1,000,000 deal to publish pictures of the wedding.
References
1. "Tweedy and
Cole in wedding ruse", BBC News, 2006-07-15. Retrieved on 2006-07-16.
3. "Girls Aloud
star 'not a racist'", BBC News, 2003-01-13. Retrieved on 2006-08-14.
4. "Singer
Tweedy guilty of assault", BBC News, 2003-10-20. Retrieved on
2006-05-31.
5."Tweedy
signed up for Coke Zero", Media Guardian. Retrieved on 2006-07-04.
6. "You're
fitted up and don't you know it", The Sun. Retrieved on 2006-05-31.
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