Supergroup Girls Aloud have had to put their reunion on hold due to member Sarah Harding’s cancer battle, the group had stated to reunite for the 20th anniversary next year.
The 39-year-old singer made the tragic news that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer last August, shortly after the members reconnected and subsequently decided to reunite. In an act of support, the group decided to put their reunion plans on hold for their fellow member. Harding and her fellow members, Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts and Kimberly Walsh have emphasised the importance of Harding’s health on several platforms.
Nadine Coyle took to her Instagram live to speak of their priorities and the group’s decision to ensure Harding’s health before going ahead with the reunion.
”I would love to be like ”yes, this is what we are doing” – at the minute it is very much thinking about Sarah, very much being there for Sarah. ‘It is a really unfortunate time for her and the whole thing is like ‘come on, come on’ because that could be the priory talking about ‘shall we go do a tour’ or ‘should we do something’? Instead we are worried about Sarah, so we are focusing everything. That is the main priority.‘’
In August of last year, Harding posted on her Instagram page giving fans an update on her diagnosis as well as tragic news that cancer had spread.
The singer has also written a book entitled ‘Hear Me Out’ set to be published on 18th March and looks to be an amazing memoir from the star as well as a brave account of her illness. An abstract from the book has been published on The Times website, in the abstract Harding tells of her tragic news during a diagnosis. It is within this section that Harding tells of how her doctor told the star the shocking news that last Christmas could be her last. Harding goes on to bravely say that throughout the trauma and tragedy she wants to keep her priorities and at the moment her priorities lay in enjoying life.
Harding gained success as part of the girl group Girls Aloud, which were created through one of the first TV talent shows ‘Popstars: Rivals’ in 2002. Previous success stories of the show included the group Hear’Say and the show’s premise was a competition between a boyband and a girl group maintaining a battle of the sexes appeal. The competing boyband was One True Voice, and the winner would gain the UK Christmas number one of 2002, Girls aloud won with their single ‘Sound of the Underground.’. The single would spend three weeks at number one and in 2003 become platinum. After the huge success, the group decided to call it quits in 2013 after the completion of their ‘Ten: The Hits’ tour. Harding also ventured into acting, appearing in the British independent film ‘Bad Day ‘and ‘St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s gold’, as well as a brief stint in ‘Coronation Street‘ amongst other credits. Harding also went on to win ‘Celebrity Big Brother 20’ in 2017.
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