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Cheryl Tweedy Profile |
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Birth Date: June 30, 1983
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Birth Place: Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
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Birth Name: Cheryl Ann Tweedy
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Height: 5'3"
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Biography |
Cheryl Tweedy is an
English singer and member of the girl group Girls Aloud. She
is married to the Chelsea and England footballer Ashley
Cole.
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.
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.
On 11 January 2003 Tweedy was involved in an altercation
with a nightclub toilet attendant, Sophie Amogbokpa, in the
Drink nightclub in Guildford. Tweedy was subsequently
charged with racially aggravated assault (she had allegedly
called Amogbokpa a "black bitch" among other racial slurs)
and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. During her trial
Tweedy 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 to pay her victim £500 in compensation, as well
as £3000 prosecution costs.
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 Britney Spears and her bandmates Sarah
Harding and Nadine Coyle, and 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. English singer
Lily Allen has a song titled "Cheryl Tweedy", in which Allen
states she wishes she looked like Cheryl Tweedy, which Allen
has later claimed to be ironic and should be seen as more of
an insult as opposed to a compliment.
Consequently, her cachet 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 corrected
everyone by saying that he only dedicated the song to her
because Girls Aloud were at the same taping of TOTP.
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 fiancé Ashley Cole, she was continuously
photographed with the wives and girlfriends of other England
football stars, and a media frenzy occured over their
partying and shopping sprees. The British media deemed them
the "WAGS" (wives and girlfriends), and criticized their
antics. Cheryl later said the other "WAGS" lived off their
partners' money, and did no work themselves, whereas she had
had a career with Girls Aloud before meeting Ashley, and did
not "borrow his plastic" when she went shopping. 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,
and is planning a television documentary and a line of
perfumes as well as a book due to be released in 2008.
Cheryl has also earned more money than the rest of her band
mates due to her high profile relationship. She has earned
over £2M while the rest of her band mates have earned less
than £1M.
Cheryl is due to appear on Celebrity Apprentice in 2007 for
Comic Relief.
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.
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 (€145,000), 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. |
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Other
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Ranked #2 in FHM 100 Sexiest Women 2005
She has three brothers and a sister
Engaged to footballer boyfriend Ashley Cole in June 2005.
She was the first girl to make it into Girls Aloud
Friends with Victoria Beckham. |
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