Cheryl Cole denies Girls Aloud split claims

Oct 18 2009 by Coreena Ford, Sunday Sun

SINGING siren Cheryl Cole says her band is Girls Alive and well, silencing rumours they are to split with news of a new contract.

The Geordie singer and X-Factor presenter has revealed the band have signed a three-album deal with Polydor, to add to the five hit studio albums they’ve already recorded with the label.

And Cheryl says she and the girls – Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh – have perfect Chemistry together and have no intention of going their separate ways.

She said: “We have just signed a new three album contract with our record label so hopefully there will be no jumping ship soon.

“I wouldn’t be doing anything like this X-Factor stuff if I was not a member of Girls Aloud.”

Heaton-born Cheryl, announced the latest deal in a telling chat with DJ Wayne Allen, presenter of Teesside’s radio station TFM’s Wake up with Wayne show.

The 26-year-old also talks about her beloved pet Chihuahuas, her hankering for parmos – the well-known deep-fried local delicacy – her views on her fellow judges Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell and her marriage to England footballer Ashley Cole.

The couple, who married in July 2006, endured a very public separation when a hairdresser claimed to have had a night of passion with Chelsea defender Ashley last year, but the two soon reconciled and she told DJ Wayne how they have become stronger together.

She said: “I just say in life in general there’s ups and downs and you just have to keep fighting on because life is hard.”