Girls Aloud recently revealed that they ‘almost died’ during a huge stage blunder on tour as they shared their most memorable moments from previous tours.
The girl band, which consists of Cheryl, 40, Nadine Coyle, 38, Nicola Roberts, 38, and Kimberley Walsh, 42, – are currently on tour for the first time since 2013, and during their shows, they have been paying tribute to their late friend and bandmate, Sarah Harding.
Sarah passed away from breast cancer in 2021, and the remaining four singers decided to reunite and go on tour in a bid to pay tribute to their late friend, admitting they are ‘doing it for Sarah’.
The first leg of the tour kicked off in Dublin and the iconic band are now making their way across the UK.
However, since the group announced they were going on tour, they started to reminisce about their most memorable moments which included a shocking story on how they ‘almost died’ once.
Girls Aloud recently revealed that they ‘almost died’ during a huge stage blunder on tour as they shared their most memorable moments from previous tours
The girl band are currently on tour for the first time since 2013, and during their shows, they have been paying tribute to their late friend and bandmate, Sarah Harding (pictured L-R Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts, Cheryl, and Kimberley Walsh)
Speaking to BBC Radio 2 host Rylan Clark on his upcoming special episode with the band the four singers revealed they could have been killed on a previous show when they were in a prop called The Cage.
Nadine explained: ‘That’s when we almost died! We were just attacked by tiny little seatbelts. Holding onto tiny wee bars. And we were like dangling for our lives, and we were like, “Is this it, is that where it ends?”‘
Cheryl added: ‘It was the first one, the first arena one (tour). We were hanging 20 foot in the air.’
Kimberley then explained: ‘It was like a cage platform thing that lowered. And in the tech, one side lowered and the other didn’t… terrifying.’
The girl band also revealed that once they realised something had gone terribly wrong they tried to alert the crew.
However, the music was so loud and no one in production could hear them as they screamed.
Nicola said: ‘Because the music was so loud, we were screaming over the mics and no one in production could hear,
‘We had a kabuki curtain so it was lowering behind the curtain and no one in the arena could see what was happening,
The first leg of the tour kicked off in Dublin and the iconic band are now making their way across the UK, however, since the group announced they were going on tour, they started to reminisce about their most memorable moments
One memorable moment included a shocking story on how they ‘almost died’ once on a previous show as they ‘were hanging 20 feet in the air’
‘So Kimberly’s hand was literally like sweating and slipping out of my hand.’
It comes after Girls Aloud slashed world tour prices by 50 percent to fill stadiums and tickets have now been dropped to as little as £50.
The move upset eager fans who had already spent between £58 and £200 on their tickets for upcoming shows across the UK in areas such as Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Aberdeen and London.
The half-price deal is being offered on Ticketmaster from Thursday until next Tuesday.
But one outraged fan wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: ‘Ok can someone please explain to me how @nottinghamarena is getting away with selling Girls Aloud tickets at 50 percent off? For a better viewing seat to us who paid double. Fuming!!! At least move the people who paid more to the better seats, before doing this??!!!’
Another wrote: ‘I got girls aloud tickets two f****** days ago and now the evil Ticketmaster has put them on bloody half price. @NadineCoyleNow do something!!!!’
Someone else added: ‘The cheek of the Ticketmaster 50% off girls aloud tickets promo when we were all in the ticketing trenches paying a ton a few months ago.’
However, one person stuck up for the decision and wrote: ‘I can see both sides of the argument. Everyone wants to see as full as possible arena for the girls though and it shouldn’t be about money for fans – at the time you felt it was a price worth paying?’
The long-awaited reunion tour was first announced last November and had two shows in Dublin and Belfast earlier this week.
It comes after the long-awaited reunion tour was first announced last November and had two shows in Dublin and Belfast earlier this week
A band insider told the Mail on Sunday the girls, Cheryl, Nadine, Kimberly, and Nicola, were ‘in tears’ after their Dublin show which saw them pay tribute to their former bandmate Sarah.
As they began, Nadine said: ‘We’re going to do a duet with Sarah tonight. It’s going to be us, Sarah, you. Let’s do this together.’ That prompted tears from many among the sell-out audience at Dublin’s 3Arena last Friday evening.
Sarah’s vocals were used and images of her were beamed onto a screen behind them – and together they all sang their cover of I’ll Stand By You, which became their second number-one, in 2004.
The group catapulted to fame in 2002 when they took part in the ITV reality show Popstars: The Rivals.
They competed for a place in a girl band and were then pitted against a boy band from the show named One True Voice in the hope that their song would become Christmas number one.
Girls Aloud won with their single Sound Of The Underground and they went on to have three more number ones and 20 top ten hits.
Sarah also won Celebrity Big Brother in 2017.
The Girls Aloud Takeover with Rylan, 2-4pm is on Monday May 27 on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds.
