CHERYL spent years unconvincingly pretending she actually liked bandmate Nadine Coyle – let’s hope her acting has improved since then.
In a move unlikely to trouble the Olivier Awards, the former Girls Aloud singer-turned-X Factor-judge-turned-hair-extensions-model-turned-basically-unemployed was yesterday unveiled as the latest “actress” to play Jenny, the leading lady in West End show 2:22 A Ghost Story.
In joining the cast she follows in the footsteps of such theatre luminaries as sulky Lily Allen, even sulkier Laura Whitmore and James Buckley, aka Jay from The Inbetweeners.
I’m not sure this one is for the theatre purists. Still, it will be nice to see Cheryl back on a stage again after becoming a relative recluse in recent years — at least in the sense that the last telly show she was in, The Greatest Dancer, bombed and got canned in 2020, and her most recent single peaked at No57 in the charts in 2019, so don’t feel too embarrassed if you missed it.
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