Fury after club ejects singer

Feb 5 2003 By The Evening Chronicle

The mother of Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy today hit back at claims that her daughter was thrown out of a Tyneside nightclub at the weekend after a water-pistol fight.

Joan Callaghan joined 19-year-old Cheryl for a "girls' night out" at Gateshead's Baja Beach Club and watched in amazement as the chart-topper was asked to leave after chatting to a group of Newcastle United players.

Reports today suggested Cheryl had got into a water-pistol fight with defender Titus Bramble, but Joan, 43, of Heaton, Newcastle, said her daughter never touched a pistol.

"Cheryl loves to dance and we went to Baja to do just that," Joan added. "There was a bunch of Newcastle players there and they came over to talk to her.

"She was just standing with them. Some of them were playing with water pistols, but not Cheryl. I saw it all happen and I was horrified. I went out with Cheryl to make sure nothing happened to her.

"It looked to me that the bloke who asked her to leave just wanted an argument. He looked in a real strop. We were all there just to have a good time, minding our own business. I don't know what the problem was."

No one at the club could be contacted for comment today.

Last month singer hit the headlines when she spent a night in a police cell after an alleged fight in a Surrey nightclub with toilet attendant Sophie Amogbokpa.