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Nickname: Chezza
Date of Birth: 30th June 1983
Starsign: Cancer
Magical Birthstone: Pearl
Birth Place: Newcastle
Siblings: 3 brothers, 1 sister
Previous Job: Waitress
Singing since: Age 12
Marrital Status: Married to footballer Ashely Cole on July 15th 2006
Favourite Film : Ghost
Favourite Actor: George Clooney and Denzel Washington
Favourite Actress: Jennifer Lopez and Catherine Zeta Jones
Favourite Place: In fornt of the fire
Favourite Destination: Caribbean
Favourite Book: The Twits
Favourite Food: Chinese
Worst Food: Peanut butter and Oilves
Likes: Clothes and make-up
Dislikes: Nasty people and crudeness
Hobbies: Dancing
Bad Habit: Leaving the bath water in
Most embarrassing moment: When a train door shut on her head
Most impressive person she's ever met: Tom Jones, 50 Cent and Pharell Williams
First record brought: Rick Ashely (Never Gonna Give You Up)
Herself in three words: Funny, Caring, Emotional
Rule of life:Never have regrets, just learn from your mistakes
Lucky Number: 7 and 3
Lucky Day: Monday
Special Colours: Silver and Sea Green
NIGHTCLUB INCIDENT AND CONVICTION
On 11th January 2003, Cole (then Tweedy) was involved in an altercation with a nightclub toilet attendant, Sophie Amogbokpa, in a nightclub in Guildford. Tweedy was subsequently charged with racially aggravated assualt and assualt causing actual bodily harm. During her trial, Tweedy claimed she acted in self defence (claiming she had been punched first). 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.
Early Career
She was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. 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, Cole has another two brothers and a sister, as well as two stepsisters, Frankie and Amy.
Ashley Cole
Even before marrying Ashley Cole, she won the title of "Sexiest Footballer's wife" in FHM's 2006 Bloke Awards, and as Cole's fiancée she was a prominent "WAG" in Germany.
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. Cole had a dress designed by Roberto Cavalli, reportedly worth £110,000 flown to England.The wedding was paid for by OK! Magazine, with whom the couple signed a £1 million deal to publish pictures of the wedding
During the Germany 2006 World Cup where Cole was supporting fiancé Ashley Cole, she was continuously photographed with the wives and girlfriends of other England football stars, and a media frenzy occurred over their partying and shopping sprees.The British media deemed them the "WAGS" (wives and girlfriends), and criticized their antics. She 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.
Media attention
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. Cole finished seventh in 2007's FHM poll. In July 2006 Cole signed a deal worth a reported £200,000 to become the face of Coca-Cola Zero for its UK launch.
Cole 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 Cole was supporting fiancé Ashley Cole, she was continuously photographed with the wives and girlfriends of other England football stars, and a media frenzy occurred over their partying and shopping sprees.The British media deemed them the "WAGS" (wives and girlfriends), and criticized their antics. She 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.
Cole appeared on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice in 2007 to raise money for Comic Relief.
Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole has confessed her WAG marriage was in turmoil after she banned her soccer idol husband from moving to the club of his dreams.
Cheryl refused to let Ashley Cole go to Real Madrid because she was determined to pursue her pop career in Britain.
Instead, he left Arsenal for Chelsea.
"Why should all my dreams and aspirations be shattered for the sake of his career?" said Cheryl, whose hits include I'll Stand By You.
"It would have meant that I'd have had to give up my career, which I wasn't prepared to do."
In a searing interview that strips the gloss from a publicly flawless relationship, Cheryl also lays bare:
THE HURT Ashley and his familt felt as he was forced to stay in the UK.
THE ‘OBSCENITY' of soccer stars' wages.
THE PAIN of watching her little brother's descent into drugs.
THE DISGUST she feels for junkie stars like Pete Doherty who glamorise "devil dust" heroin.
Detailing their private battles over England defender Ashley's move to Spain, 23-year-old Cheryl explained: "Ashley was offered a hell of a lot of money to go...the deal was there on the table.
"I stopped him living his dream playing out there. It made things difficult. I've been through a s**t, horrible relationship before, so I refuse to argue with Ashley. I disagree with him, that's human nature, but I won't get into an abusive relationship again.
"So there was a lot of disagreement, and there were a lot of tears being shed.
"He has always told me never to talk about this, but I think people should know."
The couple—the darlings of celebrity magazines—married in July 2006. The Madrid offer would have seen him move a month later.
Girls Aloud were on their way to their current record total of 17 chart entries.
"I've worked just as hard as he has to get where I am and we spoke about it at length," Cheryl told GQ Magazine.
"Either I'd have had to move out there with him and commute, or give up my career at a time when we'd finally been accepted as a band and it was almost cool to like Girls Aloud."
But now she almost wishes that Ashley, 26, had followed his dream and transferred abroad.
"For the hurt it has caused him and his family, yes," she said simply. "For me and my career—selfish reasons, I know—then no.
"But it would have been equally selfish for him to go there, so there had to be some sort of compromise."
But it was compromise at a high price. He was branded a traitor by his Arsenal fans when, unsettled, he moved instead to London rivals Chelsea in a £20 million deal last year.
"I almost begged Ashley to sign for Chelsea not really knowing what that would mean," she confessed.
"I know a bit about football, growing up in Newcastle, and I know it would be difficult for a player to go from Newcastle to Sunderland, for instance.
"But I didn't realise the extent to which moving from Arsenal to Chelsea would cause so much hurt between the two of us, and to Arsenal fans,"
Cheryl continued. "And for that I do apologise. He wouldn't have got half as much s**t if he had gone there (to Madrid) rather than Chelsea. And I blame myself for a lot of that.
"Looking back, with all the different advice he was getting and me saying, ‘Don't go abroad', it must have been hard for him. He went through hell.
"His eyes were dead until recently."
Earlier this summer, Sunderland manager Roy Keane branded henpecked Premiership stars "weak" for being "dictated to by wives and girlfriends".
The former Manchester United hero was livid after one high-profile player rejected a move to the North East because his partner didn't like the local shops.
But for Cheryl, the issues go far deeper — and she is keen to stress the difference between herself and Queen WAG Victoria Beckam, who followed husband David to Real Madrid.
"It's not as easy for Girls Aloud because the band is still performing and recording, whereas the Spice Girls weren't," she said.
"I'd have gone there if I'd been in Victoria's situation. But I wasn't prepared to give up everything I had worked so hard for just so Ashley could realise his dream."
As well as that dream, Ashley turned down a hefty pay rise. Cheryl claims his Madrid offer was "a lot more" than the £90,000 a week he now earns at Chelsea.
"I find what all footballers get paid obscene anyway, I can never get my head around it," she said. "But that's the market, it's not Ashley's fault. It's unfair to brand Ashley greedy because he has never been like that.
"Both me and him are from lower-class backgrounds. We were brought up on a council estate and in a high-rise flat without two pennies to rub together."
So, far from a WAG lifestyle?
"I've never been the kind of girl who has to have the latest Chloé handbag," she insisted. "If I see a nice bag for £30, I'll get it."
As she talks, she twiddles the giant diamond ring on her finger. How much is that worth?
"That's worth Ashley's heart," she smiled. "It's white gold and yellow diamond, and it's worth a lot of money, yes.
"But it's a once-in-a-lifetime wedding ring. And anyway, I'm sick to death of feeling guilty about stuff like this.
"I work long hours, why shouldn't I spend my money how the hell I like? Ashley trains for three hours a day, I work a lot harder. And if I can afford the nice things in life then why can't I have them? I liked the ring, we could afford it, so we bought it—big deal."
Apart from the anguish over their careers, Cheryl insisted their marriage was strong —and she laughed off gay rumours surrounding Ashley.
"No I can say that categorically," she said. "There was this rumour mill going...and I shouldn't be laughing because he'll go mad at me."
Referring to a story involving bizarre use of a small mobile phone, she added: "Anyway, there were these three mixed-race footballers...
"Ashley likes gossip so he was calling all his mates saying, ‘I hear it's so and so', and then one paper said it was an England star, and I turned to him and said, ‘They'll be saying it's you next'. And someone did. But he sued, they apologised and the compensation paid for my ring."
Cheryl was working as a waitress when she entered TV show Popstars: The Rivals, which formed Girls Aloud in 2002.
Since then she and bandmates Sarah Harding, 25, Nadine Coyle, 22, Kimberley Walsh, 25 and Nicola Roberts, 21, have risen to earn a place in the 2008 Guinness Book of Records for most consecutive UK hits.
Cheryl has also hit the headlines for the wrong reasons. In 2003 she was convicted of actual bodily harm after hitting nightclub toilet attendant Sophie Amogbokpa. Cheryl still refuses to say sorry. "I wish it hadn't happened," she said. "It lives with me all the time. But I won't apologise."
Cheryl is equally infamous for her feuds with everyone from Charlotte Church to Lily Allen, who ‘dedicated' a song to her.
"At first I was flattered another female artist had done that," said Cheryl, but soon she realised that Allen wasn't serious.
"I know that now and I don't take kindly to having the p**s taken out of me," she added. "I feel like a mug for thinking she was being nice. It was just for publicity."
But she reserves her greatest anger for junkie Pete Doherty.
"I can't stand it when papers print photos of people like him," said Cheryl, whose own brother got into drugs.
"It glorifies everything I hate: being a smackhead. Heroin is devil's dust, it ruins lives and families, and everything it touches.
"I've seen what drugs do to people. I went out with a heroin addict, my little brother got into drugs, I've lost friends to drugs.
"It put me off for life. I saw people change overnight. A very good friend of mine died at 21 two years ago from heroin and to see his picture in the paper with a needle in his arm..."
Wreck
"His mother used the picture to show what drugs can do, to try and stop others taking it. He was a talented boy who might have played for Newcastle.
"His mother crumbled to a five-and-a-half stone wreck by the end, because he'd even steal Christmas presents from his family to feed his habit.
"And then to see pictures of Doherty glamorising it, and with Kate Moss on his arm, too. It makes me sick."
So why did Cheryl think that Kate fell for Pete?
"Smackheads tell so many lies," she said sombrely. "You convince yourself they're going to change, you're blinded by love. Yet the man you love is spaced out in bed all day.
"It's so destructive for everyone around them. I don't feel sorry for addicts, they know what they're doing. Kids may have been offered a spliff 20 years ago, now it's smack that can kill them.
"Kate is supposed to be away from him at the moment, so I'd say to her, ‘Stay away. Leopards don't change their spots'.
"I've seen beautiful women deteriorate through drugs so fast and become ugly overnight.
"None of my family, thank God, got addicted to drugs. They tried them, but learnt from their mistakes and I'm so grateful.
"Where I come from everyone is exposed to drugs. I'm glad I was strong enough to resist it."
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