Girls Aloud reunite for a Greatest Hits tour.
Cheryl Tweedy, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh plan to hit the road in May and June 2024 to mark 21 years this month since they and the late Sarah Harding won Popstars: The Rivals.
However, the group has not recorded any new music, but simply wants to celebrate their back catalogue.
Cheryl revealed they had been discussing the plans for some time, but shelved the idea when Sarah – who died in September 2021 – was diagnosed with breast cancer.
She said in a statement: “We all started talking a few years ago about the possibility of doing something to celebrate Girls Aloud’s 20th anniversary. The anniversary seemed like an obvious thing to celebrate.
Girls Aloud is back! Cheryl Tweedy, Kimberley Walsh, Nicola Roberts and Nadine Coyle (LR) plan to hit the road in May and June 2024 to mark the 21st anniversary of her and the late Sarah Harding’s Popstars: The Rivals this month won.
‘But when Sarah got sick, all priorities changed. She passed away a year before the anniversary and it just didn’t feel right, it felt too soon.”
The group plans to use the tour to “celebrate” their late friend.
Cheryl added, “But now I think there’s an energy there that makes it feel good. It’s the right time to celebrate Sarah, it’s the right time to celebrate the bond and the right time to celebrate that we can still do this 21 years later. That is a great honor in many ways.’
Kimberley said: “Over the past year we have felt this outpouring of love – obviously towards Sarah, but really towards all of us as a group.
“And I think it rekindled something in all of us.” It feels like something has changed and it feels like the right time to celebrate Sarah and the 20th anniversary that we didn’t celebrate at the time.”
The group hopes fans will enjoy the tour as much as they do.
Nadine said: ‘Girls Aloud is a band that has had such a huge impact on people’s lives. We grew up with the band, but so did so many other people.
‘So it feels like a shame and a shame for us not to do something again. We want to have that moment with the fans that we can all enjoy together.”
Reunited! The group has not recorded any new music, but simply wants to celebrate their back catalogue
Fast! The group hopes fans will enjoy the tour as much as they do
Icons: Girls Aloud originally formed in 2002 on ITV’s Pop Stars: The Rivals and rose to fame with twenty top ten singles and five BRIT Award nominations
Back! Girls Aloud took an initial hiatus in 2009 to pursue other projects before splitting for good in 2013 (pictured in 20025)
Wasn’t the right time: Cheryl said in a statement: ‘We all started talking a few years ago about the possibility of doing something to celebrate Girls Aloud’s 20th anniversary. The anniversary seemed like an obvious thing to celebrate.”
Back and better than ever: Kimberley said: ‘Over the past year we’ve felt this outpouring of love – obviously towards Sarah, but really towards all of us as a group’
Exciting: Nadine said: ‘Girls Aloud is a band that has had such a huge impact on people’s lives. We grew up with the band, but so did so many other people.”
I can’t wait: Nicola added: ‘It’s going to be a huge celebration of everything we’ve done so far. We want people to leave thinking: ‘Wow, I just had one of the best nights of my life’
Nicola added: ‘What’s really encouraging is that when people ask us about reunification, it’s not: “Would you ever do that?” but “When are you going to do it?” To know that we still have that love from our fans and people who watched us grow up gives us the confidence to do the tour.
“It’s going to be a huge celebration of everything we’ve done so far. We want people to leave thinking, ‘Wow, I just had one of the best nights of my life.’
Girls Aloud originally formed in 2002 on ITV’s Pop Stars: The Rivals and rose to fame with twenty top ten singles and five BRIT Award nominations.
Girls Aloud took an initial hiatus in 2009 to pursue other projects before finally splitting up in 2013.
Cheryl in particular has remained in the spotlight over the years, due to her position as a judge on the X Factor, her tempestuous love life and most recently her appearance in 2:22 A Ghost Story.
Sarah tragically passed away two years ago, aged just 39, after a battle with breast cancer.
After her time in Girls Aloud, Sarah starred in Coronation Street and in 2017 in Celebrity Big Brother.
In 2020, she announced that she had breast cancer and that it had spread, before releasing a memoir in 2021 titled Hear Me Out.
Following Sarah’s death, band member Nicola said: ‘Time is the most precious thing we have as humans, it can run out at any time.
“I think it would be very easy to become extremely anxious over time when someone so young and so close to you is out of it, and I think it’s important not to obsess over it because things are still happening on their own. in your own time.
“I think it’s important to still pace your life as you were, and not panic about the fact that your time may be coming to an end, or that the time of someone else you love may be coming to an end.” is coming to an end. I think that’s a dangerous place to be.”
In 2022, the group reunited at a charity ball in Sarah’s honor – but did not perform together.
Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, November 29 at 9am, while the general ticket goes on sale on Friday, December 1 at 9am, all via girlsaloud.com.