As Girls Aloud reunite, a take a look at what they’ve achieved throughout hiatus

On Wednesday, Girls Aloud confirmed they’d embark on a reunion tour – 10 years after breaking followers’ hearts once they disbanded in 2013.

Cheryl Tweedy, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh revealed they’d be again in pressure with their tour kicking off subsequent yr, within the wake of their bandmate Sarah Harding‘s loss of life from breast most cancers in September 2021. 

During their hiatus, the foursome have all loved a slew of tasks, various from solo careers to songwriting to actuality TV stints – nevertheless they’ve loved various successes of their fields, with fickle relationships with the highlight. 

Cheryl has arguably loved the biggest slice of solo fame, along with her slew of hit singles, her stint on each UK and US X Factor and a stab at West End stardom, nevertheless the success was reduce up with a vanishing act from the general public eye.

Nadine in the meantime tried and failed in America, Kimberley grew to become a West End sweetheart along with her flip in Shrek and Nicola launched a make-up model designed particularly for pale pores and skin – incomes her a spot within the coronary heart of the style world. 

So what have the ladies been as much as?

CHERYL 

In 2009, Girls Aloud introduced they had been taking a hiatus to concentrate on solo tasks, earlier than a short return in 2012 and their break up announcement in 2013. 

Cheryl seized the second with the solo window, as she began engaged on solo music in April 2009 and launched her first music Fight For This Love in September than yr earlier than unveiling her album the next month. 

Her solo profession went from energy to energy and he or she has now launched a whopping 4 albums between 2009 to 2014. 

While her music profession was hovering, Cheryl was additionally appearing as a decide on The X Factor for 5 seasons and scooping an ill-fated position on the American model of the present which culminated in a feud with Simon Cowell. 

She made her debut solo efficiency of Fight For This Love on The X Factor in 2009, and later stated of the present: ‘Oh My God, performing Fight For This Love on X Factor. I’ve by no means been so nervous in me whole life.

‘It was my first solo efficiency, on a present I used to be engaged on as a decide, after which, half an hour earlier than I went on stage Simon [Cowell] stated some dodgy issues. Like, ‘Remember Cheryl, you’ve got achieved this to your self’…

‘I do not know if he was giving me one thing to battle towards, like ‘I’ll show you b**ches unsuitable,’ or if he was merely saying, ‘I do not know why you set your self via this.’ I’ll should ask him…

‘He’s modified rather a lot since he is had a child, so he may really feel a bit unhealthy lately.’

In December 2012, Cheryl sued the American producers of The X Factor for $2.3 million (£1.4m). She obtained $1.8 million (£1.1m) for the 2011 US sequence, after which sued for $2 million (£1.25m) for the second season, plus further damages.

In November 2013, Cheryl gained for her settlement, for an undisclosed quantity between her and producers Blue Orbit.

In March 2009, Cheryl climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for Comic Relief. Gary Barlow organised the climb, which was additionally undertaken by Kimberley. 

They had been joined by Alesha Dixon, Fearne Cotton, Denise Van Outen, Chris Moyles, Ben Shephard, Ronan Keating and Gary himself. 

In 2010, Cheryl contracted Malaria, following a visit to Tanzania. Malaria is transmitted by an contaminated mosquito and it takes one chunk to contract the illness.

During the band’s hiatus, following her marriage to Ashley Cole, which ran from 2006 to 2010, she married restaurateur Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini after simply three months of courting in 2014. 

They divorced in 2016, after struggling a painful break up, throughout which Cheryl misplaced a dramatic quantity of weight and sparked concern amongst followers. 

She went on to have a son Bear, with One Direction star Liam Payne in March 2017 earlier than they break up in July 2018. 

Following Bear’s delivery and her break up from Liam, Cheryl dropped off the radar to concentrate on life as a mom. She stated of motherhood: ‘Being a teen is disgusting. I’d by no means need to be in my 20s once more. My life for the reason that child, and my life previous to the newborn … they’re two totally different individuals, in the very best method.’

Earlier this yr, Cheryl made her West End debut in 2:22 A Ghost Story, taking up the position from Lily Allen on the Noel Coward Theatre. 

NADINE 

Like Cheryl, Nadine used Girls Aloud’s hiatus to discover her solo choices and in 2019 collaborated with Boyz II Men on a canopy of Take That’s Back For Good.

She enlisted Barbara Charone, who has labored with Madonna and Christina Aguilera, as a publicist and Bruce Garfield as her supervisor.

The deal later fell via nevertheless in August the identical yr, she formally signed a take care of grocery retailer chain Tesco’s new file label, releasing the album via her personal Black Pen Records imprint. 

In September 2010, she launched her debut single Insatiable, which peaked at 25 within the charts, adopted by Sweetest High the next yr. 

She continued pursuing solo success as much as the current day together with protecting The Cranberries basic Zombie in October final yr, because it was voted the number one Irish music of all time by RTE2FM listeners. 

In July, she launched a canopy of Snow Patrol’s 2006 hit file Chasing Cars known as If I Lay Here (Chasing Cars). 

 In 2019, Coyle participated within the nineteenth sequence of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and completed in fifth place.

In 2006, Coyle moved from Northern Ireland to LA and whereas residing there she opened an Irish pub restaurant, Nadine’s Irish Mist as a household enterprise. 

During her stateside stint, she met  American former skilled participant Jason Bell with whom she has Anaíya, who they welcomed in February 2014.  

KIMBERLEY 

Nicola was plagued with rumours of solo materials, nevertheless little got here to fruition bar a music for the Horrid Henry movie known as Everybody Dance early doorways. 

In 2012 she made her West End theatre debut, taking part in Princess Fiona within the London manufacturing of Shrek. 

After Shrek, the star collaborated with Alfie Boe to file a model of Queen’s One Visio’ because the Official Olympic Team Great Britain single. 

She has additionally carried out with plenty of artists together with Neyo with Hate That I Love You, Ronan Keating’s No Matter What and James Cullum’s Rainy Days and Mondays.

In August 2012 it was introduced that she was in discussions with Gary Barlow to launch a solo album for a 2013 launch.

In September 2012, she was unveiled as one of many stars of the tenth sequence of Strictly and was paired with Pasha Kovalev on the present. 

She completed as a runner-up to Denise Van Outen behind winner Louis Smith. 

Kimberley, 42, is mum to a few sons Bobby, eight, Cole, six and Nate, 18 months with husband Justin Scott. 

NICOLA 

More so than the opposite stars of the band, Nicola expressed curiosity in writing her personal music – one thing she went on to do to very large success. 

She has written songs for Little Mix and in 2013, she obtained a disc award for her assist with writing the album DNA, which bought greater than 700k copies.  

She additionally wrote 4 songs for Cheryl’s fourth album Only Human and two additional songs for Little Mix on their Salute album.  

Of working collectively, Cheryl stated about Nicola: ‘Aw, endlessly associates. An enormous a part of my life. We work effectively collectively as a result of we’re reverse – she’s melodic and I’m lyrical. She’d written for me earlier than and I’d simply tweak lyrics right here and there…

‘But this time we had been within the studio collectively, working side-by-side.’

During Girls Aloud’s hiatus, she began work within the studio with producers corresponding to; Dragonette, Diplo and Joseph Mount and revealed after a yr of recording she can be releasing her debut album, Cinderella’s Eyes.

In 2011, the primary single Beat of My Drum had an on-sale launch which means it had little promotion beforehand and commercially peaked at quantity 27.

Critically the only garnered acclaim which she described as ‘wonderful’.

Lucky Day, the second single, was launched shortly after and while gaining optimistic opinions it did not make an impression – peaking at quantity 40 within the UK.

In 2008, Nicola launched a tiny collection of the cosmetics along with producers Jelly Pong Pong, as a part of the ITV2 present The Passions Of Girls Aloud.

But Nicola has spent the next 18 months laborious at work creating a complete vary on her personal, and upon launching, the make-up went on to be stocked within the prestigious hallowed make-up corridor at Harrods.

On deciding to do the road, Nicola defined: ‘The purpose behind me doing it is because I had some extent of distinction and that was due to the pale pores and skin and it was one thing I clearly felt actually obsessed with…

‘I used to be conscious that there weren’t many make up manufacturers that catered for ladies for further pale pores and skin so I really feel proud that I’ve been the particular person to do it.’

In January 2012, Rihanna chosen Nicola to co-host Styled To Rock for Sky Living, the place she acted as an executive-producer on the present which might search ‘for the following era of undiscovered designer expertise’.

On 4 June 2022, she carried out Climb Ev’ry Mountain with Mica Paris and Ruby Turner on the Platinum Party on the Palace live performance to have a good time the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

In February 2020, she gained the primary sequence of ITV’s The Masked Singer UK, masked as Queen Bee and in 2021, returned within the ultimate of the second sequence as a visitor decide.

She later returned once more within the third sequence ultimate in 2022 to carry out a duet masked as Queen Bee with Mark Feehily masked as Robobunny.