She’s a good example of somebody whose personality was frozen in time at the point she became famous, and hasn’t developed since.
She’s 37 now, and Popstars The Rivals was shown in winter 2002, so almost 18 years ago. So she was 19 when she became famous.
Everything she has done since is reminiscent of a not very bright 19 year old. She doesn’t appear to have grown up.
Punching the loo attendant in that nightclub in Guildford. How her career ever recovered from that, I don’t know.
Sulking because she thought that one of the other member of Girls Aloud had a nicer outfit than she did. Whinging about having to walk up a hill - paved, in a town in Spain - to look at a view. (Both from Girls Aloud: off the record, which is on YouTube and is recommended)
The keenness to get married ASAP, preferably to somebody famous. Chimes with that teenage thing of ‘finding the one’. She was only 23 when she and Ashley Cole got married, I think.
The subsequent drama queening when Ashley couldn’t keep it in his pants. The so-called malaria. Look, Cheryl’s wedding ring is so loose! Can Cheryl survive?
The bizarre and doomed marriage to the french bloke. Another quest for ‘the one’.
The weird arse tattoo, which we all had to be told about at great length.
The baby with the member of One Direction whose profile needed boosting. With a daft name for the baby. I did feel a bit sorry for her at this point, as if her management team had pointed her at him and said, “look, there’s your next ‘the one’. Off you go, like a good girl”.
Her supposed reclusiveness is sometimes said to give her an air of mystery. My explanation is that she’s thick and her management team have decided that the best way to hide it is by keeping her out of the spotlight.