Brits - please explain the career of Cheryl Cole

Member of a popular girl group + dated high-profile men + relentless ambition + permanent tabloid fodder

Gorgeous, ambitious, and seemingly beloved in the UK,she is listenable when she stays in her lane and jaw-droppingly bad when she doesn't.

All I know about her is that she got knocked up by a One Direction-er and has a massive back to ass tat.

I saw her in concert in 2013 when Girls Aloud had their "final" tour. Say what you want about her, but she has charisma to spare, although those hideous tattoos on her back were distracting. She seems to want to disfigure herself with tattoos and plastic surgery like those awful cheek implants she had a few years ago.

Her solo stuff is mostly mediocre but her songs with Girls Aloud are some terrific pop music (Biology, Call the Shots, Untouchable).

R3 Was that atrocity designed by Ed Hardy?

What R1 said. Plus famous for assaulting a black woman in a toilet. Yes, really.

Not sure where anyone gets the idea that she’s “beloved in the UK”. It’s only the Queen & David Attenborough you can reliably say that about.

Such thing does not exist.

The attack:

Girls Aloud were one of the most successful and critically acclaimed girl groups of all time (in the UK at least).

Winning a TV talent contest and being a cheeky Geordie probably helped in her popularity, as did her being a WAG. I do find it surprising she managed to get over the charge of racially aggravated assault and subsequent court case relatively unscathed.

The Brits don't "love" any celebrities, they tolerate them. They collectively relate to the underdog, the unassuming, the so-called loser, and they can't stand the frivolity of fame and fortune. It must be that old "stiff upper lip" thing.

Cheryl was a favorite of young girls mostly who outgrew her as time went on and the stories of her diva behavior became more widespread after Simon Cowell fired her. That fight with the toilet attendant also labelled her racist because the attendant was black, but Cheryl was probably just really drunk. She's what the Brits call a chav who grew up in council, which is comparable to American white trash in a trailer park. After last album and single was a total flop a few years ago, not to mention her embarassing 1 year marriage to that child from One Direction, she's now faded into obscurity.

R10 No-one has used the word 'chav' in the UK in about 20 years.

Gary Barlow could forever hit this ! Hes so fine !

[quote]Ce la vie

oh mon Dieu!

R11 - that’s not true at all. “Chav” is still used a lot.

Her having a kid out of a fling with a much younger, fomer boybander made me realize she failed in live.

Cheryl Cole and Kimberley Walsh.

Not suggestin’ anything.

Just sayin’.

She's a very attractive white female. In Britain, that means she's a diamond in the rough.

r14 = Katie Price

The word chav wasn't even widespread 20 years ago, R11.

and did we mention that she's managed by will.I.am? what up there? does she rap? was that supposed to be her ticket to the top? Let us not forget she's ridden some quality peen, and that she likes them young inclines me over thel finish line and say a respectful, head bowed, she fucked Derrick Hough 'you go girl! In respect.

A triumph of marketing, PR and packaging. Along with a whole load of other crap Simon Cowell foisted on the country and then overseas. A perfect example of how celebrity worship has hollowed out the culture. Maybe after the virus people, adults at least, will realise how regularly they were being duped and start to ignore every shiny new PR creation concocted just to make the management money. Or we’ll just sink further into a miasma of stupid.

Her music career is finally over it seems. She released a single in 2018 that flopped, and she released another single last year that flopped even harder, which caused plans to record a new album to be shelved.

[quote]Was that r3 atrocity designed by Ed Hardy?

I think it was Ed Gein.

She has a very symmetrical face and she's thin.

Does she know where all the cowboys have gone?

LChat thinks she's gay

She had excellent plastic surgery if you look at her early photos compared to now.

I think the fact that a thousand more people disliked that trainwreck than liked it, OP, answers your question.

[quote]A triumph of marketing, PR and packaging. Along with a whole load of other crap Simon Cowell foisted on the country and then overseas. A perfect example of how celebrity worship has hollowed out the culture.

Simon Cowell didn't have anything to do with Girls Aloud. They were initially managed by Louis Walsh, and the only decent thing he did for them was put them in touch with Xenomania who produced most of the first album and the subsequent 4 albums.

Walsh originally saw Girls Aloud as a launch group for Nadine Coyle, but Cheryl became the breakout star, despite her lack of singing ability but through her personality and performance ability.

Like Geri Halliwell she's not a great singer but with the right song and video director she comes alive as a pop star. Sure no one wants to hear her sing live when she's doing a routine like this, but it's the same with Paula Abdul and the Vibeology debacle.

And yes, she's common as fuck. Grew up in poverty in a rough council estate, brother repeatedly in prison for drugs offences. One of the reasons posh rich girl Lily Allen hates Cheryl is because she's authentically common. Allen talks in her mockney accent and hangs around council estates like she's working class, but she'll always be a posh rich girl who went to very expensive schools and hung out on movie sets her mother was producer on.

I will never not associate Cheryl Cole to one of my favourite things ever.

Oh wait, sorry, it's Cher Lloyd.

I don't care. I'm posting it anyway.

She and Victoria Beckham are the UK equivalent of J. Lo and Kim Kardashian.

Was she the one that Sharon Osborne made cry?

She was one of the winners of pop stars the rivals - The brits are heavily invested in their reality stars - Girls Aloud was created out of that show - The original popstars was more documentary style with no voting - then Pop Idol became a big hit - so they second iteration of Pop Stars - they created a girls group and a boys group- to see who could have the best chart position my Christmas.

She sang a horrible song after a personal break up on X Factor a few years ago.

Way too pitchy. That's a no for me dawg.

The camera loves her. And she it.

But that girl is on a search and destroy mission for pitch.

Prince Charles' expression said it all.

She sounds fucking awful in OP's linked video. The Queen must have been thinking about putting her in Wakefield Prison all the way through the performance.

Saved by Gary Barlow.

Oh dear. Nadine was the better singer by far too, if we're talking Girls Aloud.

We have JLo and made her way more wealthy and famous than her talent deserves. Every country has pretty women with high school choir level singing chops. As long as they give good face, body, and beats we are good.

I love that freaking dress she wore. It's over the top but very sexy and nice.

r31 Only skinny.

[quote]Like Geri Halliwell she's not a great singer but with the right song and video director she comes alive as a pop star.

Geri Halliwell lololol. She's morphed herself into a posh yummy mummy in a country house, new accent and all.

I think Girls Aloud had way better songs than Spice Girls. Girls Aloud were also prettier. Neither are talented though.

Cheryl is a cunt.

It's not true to say that people living in council housing are akin the "trailer trash". Most are respectable and work, thru just can't afford to buy a house or rent privately

R46

So Section 8 housing?

When you're British the bar is set very low.

Best Cheryl piss take ever imo

It does seem the British support their local artists more regardless of if they're talented or not. In The US, the artist are very disposable and will be easily forgotten unless they're constantly in the tabloids or doing shitty reality shows (see: J. Lo, Jessica Simpson, Miley, Selena).

What number divorce is she on now? Will she go back to being Cheryl Tweedy?

I love the controversy of Cheryl's ethnicity. She looks Mediterrean to some,part Indian to others. It turns out she's part black Irish. She's very attractive but seems to have a bad girl streak.

The Brits will explain Cheryl when we explain Janet, Paula Abdul, and Britney Spears.

British women peaked in talent in the 80’s until Adele but she’s over and they have no one else. I am not counting that drag queen dua peep.