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Photograph: Karwai Tang/WireImageīut in August 2020, she announced that she was ill. Sarah Harding winning Celebrity Big Brother in 2017. All five members had agreed to participate and she saw the reunion as a profile-raising lifeline. Her next major work project would have been a tour with Girls Aloud in 2022 to mark the 20th anniversary of their formation. She had already had a go at reviving her musical career in 2015 with a dance song called Threads it failed to reach the main singles chart. Reviews had been scathing – “Sarah Harding explores the afterlife of a pop music career,” said the Irish Times, and that was one of the polite ones – and the episode marked the end of her attempt to establish herself as an actor. Persistent pain from the ligament injury forced her to pull out early from the starring role in the 2016 British tour of Ghost: The Musical.

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She gamely learned gymnastics on Tumble, tore a ligament in The Jump, made pig on toast in Celebrity MasterChef, cried while revisiting her childhood bedroom in Wraysbury, Berkshire, on Celebrity Home Secrets and won the 2017 series of Celebrity Big Brother.

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On the other hand, celebrity reality TV vied for her reliably witty services. Other than a four-part role as the cheated-on Joni Preston in Coronation Street, however, few decent parts came her way. The other ex-Girls released solo records, but Harding, who had had the leading role in St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold while still in the band, considered acting a more interesting goal. Girls Aloud had had a straight run of 22 Top 20 singles (including four No 1s) and five Top 20 albums, but the window for solo opportunities was open only for a brief spell. Running alongside the personal-life stories were her attempts to find an identity after being one-fifth of a girl group for seven years. Once Harding’s vulnerability had been revealed, the tabloids and social media rarely stopped gunning for her. Two years later she received a driving ban after nearly colliding with a police officer while using her phone.

After leaving the clinic she began a brief relationship with another former patient, which ended in a drunken fight during a Christmas trip to Austria.

She also became addicted to sleeping pills and in 2011 was treated for depression and substance misuse. It was like all or nothing and suddenly there was nothing.”Īround the same time, her fiance, the DJ Tom Crane, with whom she owned a bar in London, called off their engagement via Twitter – it was news to her, apparently, and she began to drink excessively. It was very quiet – the calm after the storm. But being handed the reins to her career was not an unalloyed blessing.

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In 2009, Girls Aloud had taken a break that, apart from a brief reunion four years later, turned out to be permanent, leaving Harding a free agent. From left: Kimberley Walsh, Nadine Coyle, Cheryl Tweedy, Sarah Harding and Nicola Roberts.