Girls Aloud set for UK tour - Nov 21 2007
Girls Aloud are set to hit the road on a UK arena tour next year, it has been announced.

The tour - which will coincide with the group's new album Tangled Up - will kick off in Glasgow on May 7 and travel around the country, culminating in Manchester on May 31.

The album, produced by long-standing collaborators Xenomania, sees the girls return with a pack of hits including Sexy! No No No... and Call The Shots.

Sexy! No No No... was the girls' sixteenth top 10 single, a run that has seen them land a place in the Guinness World Records book for the most top 10 hits in a row in the UK by a female group.

Tickets go on sale at 9am on November 23.

The dates of the Tangled Up Arena Tour 2008 are as follows:

May 2008

7 - SECC, Glasgow
11 - Bournemouth International centre, Bournemouth
13 - Brighton Centre, Brighton
17 - O2 Arena, London
18 - Cardiff International Arena, Cardiff
20 - Nottingham Arena, Nottingham
21 - Sheffield Arena, Sheffield
23 - NIA, Birmingham
25 - Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle
27 - ECC, Aberdeen
30 - Liverpool Arena, Liverpool
31 - MEN Arena, Manchester

Girls Aloud on X Factor - Nov 16 2007
Girls Aloud are set to glam up X Factor on Saturday when they give their advice to contestants on the TV talent show.

The theme for the week’s show is Disco and each of the remaining seven hopefuls will be trying to impress the viewers and the judges with their dancefloor classic.

Nicola Roberts gives girl band Hope some tips on their performance of Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight), saying: "I was 16 when I started, you seem really mature, really together, really collected."

And Nadine Coyle had some wise words on dealing with the press.

"Keep yourselves clean, stay out of trouble and try not to read about yourself in the papers, what you don’t know can’t hurt you and most of the time it is all made up!" she said.

The Love Machine singers have had their fair share of fame and success after winning X Factor’s predecessor Popstars: The Rivals in 2002.

An X Factor spokeswoman said: "We’re thrilled to be having Girls Aloud on the show. They’ve come from a reality TV show background, so they’ll have a lot of advice for the contestants."

Meanwhile, it looks like Alisha, who’s singing Young Hearts Run Free, might finally get the boot this week, after being backed to odds of 9/4.

Ladbrokes spokesman Nick Weinberg said: "The weekend wouldn’t be the same without the gamble on Alisha to go. Somehow she’s managed to make it this far. We’ll be amazed if she can repeat the trick."


Girls Aloud deny split rumours - May 10 2007
Girls Aloud have insisted they aren’t splitting up.

The girl group - Cheryl Cole, Nicola Roberts, Kimberley Walsh, Sarah Harding and Nadine Coyle - say they have no plans to go their separate ways despite endless rumours to the contrary.

"One day, it’s about one of us leaving and the next week, it will be someone else. The papers have been saying we are going to split since we released our first single so we don’t give a s*** what they say now," said Nadine.

Sarah added: "Don’t believe the ridiculous story about us splitting up. Some people just can’t stop making stories out of nothing.

"And Cheryl is not going to be a judge on any reality show - those stories are just rubbish."