Cheryl Cole: Her Story - the Unauthorized Biography by Gerard Sanderson

Author:Gerard Sanderson [Sanderson, Gerard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781843175148
Google: WSHdAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00408920M
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Published: 2010-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

_____ Chapter 15

GIRLS HIT THE ROAD

The new year kicked off with just as much excitement as had seen out the previous one: more dates were added to their upcoming Summer 2005 tour to feed the fans’ demand for tickets, and the girls also discovered that they had been nominated for a BRIT Award. They couldn’t believe their luck, though they knew they had stiff competition as they were sharing the Best Pop Act category with pop heavyweights Westlife and McFly.

Things were going so well career-wise that it would have taken a lot to remove the smile from Cheryl’s face. Or perhaps that had something to do with the fact that she was blissfully happy with her new man …

Since Cheryl and Ashley had gone public with their relationship, the press had become more of an issue in their lives. While this was nothing new to Cheryl, having been exposed to the celebrity media via Popstars: The Rivals, young Ashley found it a hard transition to deal with. He knew that a footballer-pop singer combo was tabloid gold. David and Victoria Beckham had proved that the tantalizing combination of a girl songstress hooking up with an athletic sportsman and enjoying the high life was the kind of stuff everyone wanted to read about. But he had never thought he would be part of that circus himself. Before Cheryl he had been dating his ex-girlfriend Emma Barratt for five years and had maintained a low profile. But the minute he started seeing Cheryl, it all changed; the world seemed to go mad and he found himself no longer on the back pages of the papers, but on the covers instead.

When Ashley started out as a footballer, he never imagined himself becoming a celebrity: that wasn’t the point of what he did. He wanted to play the sport he loved so much in the best way he could, and one day to represent his country internationally. And he had managed to do it, so far, without the press snooping around. But now it was a different story. Now he wasn’t just Ashley Cole, Arsenal midfielder, he was Ashley Cole of ‘Cheryl and Ashley’ fame.

‘I didn’t get followed before Cheryl,’ he said in his book My Defence. ‘The press weren’t bothered about me. It was all about my football and my performances and that was it. But there’s no helping who you fall in love with and I wouldn’t have it any other way because Cheryl is key to it all. She’s the one person who makes sense of all this madness and she’s helped me understand it more.’

Nevertheless, he still found the intrusion very hard to deal with and was visibly uncomfortable with the constant attention from the paparazzi. He became aware that everywhere he and Cheryl went, there was a camera being pushed into their faces, while their every move was being scrutinized for cracks in their relationship. What got to him most were the lies that were printed. Even silly stuff such as the time he supposedly went shopping with Mariah Carey in Selfridges.

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