Girls Aloud have made a long-anticipated comeback – but have soon slipped back into old habits while filming their new Wonder Woman-themed music video.
The iconic group – consisting of Cheryl Tweedy, Nadine Coyle, Kimberly Walsh and Nicola Roberts – is working on a music video in tribute to their beloved bandmate Sarah Harding, who passed away from breast cancer in 2021 aged 39.
They are recording and filming their first single in 11 years in a studio in North London after years of speculation about a possible return.
But the infamously quarrelsome girlband – who disbanded for good in 2013 amid rumours of feuding – have already proven a ‘handful’ on set, it has been claimed.
The girls are said to be complaining about being too cold while filming their music video in a typical diva fashion, ordering their assistants to go out and buy hot water bottles and blankets to warm up.
Uh oh: Girls Aloud have reunited… but have soon slipped back into their old quarrelsome ways
Hit band: The girlband are recording their first single in 11 years in tribute to late bandmate Sarah Harding (left)
A source told The Sun: ‘Girls Aloud were a bit of a handful the first time around and it looks like they are this time too.
‘It was a long day of filming and the ladies didn’t make it easy, sending runners scrambling to source things to warm them up.’
The insider continued: ‘Instead they made it known to absolutely everybody that they were freezing and simply must have extra layers and anything which staff could get their hands on to warm them up. Clearly some things never change.’
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The girls are dressing up as superheroes for the new video and producers are honouring Sarah by adding in footage of the late star.
Girls Aloud originally formed in 2002 on ITV’s Pop Stars: The Rivals and shot to fame, achieving 20 top-ten singles and five BRIT award nominations.
After much anticipation, they are finally set to make a comeback, including a full album of music and a ‘massive’ UK tour in 2024, it was revealed on Tuesday night.
After her time in Girls Aloud, Sarah starred in Coronation Street and went on Celebrity Big Brother in 2017.
Tragic: The song will be a tribute to late bandmate Sarah Harding, who passed away from breast cancer in 2021
Exciting: The reunion has been long-awaited and is said to include a full album of music and UK tour
In 2020 she announced she had breast cancer and that it had spread, before releasing a memoir in 2021 titled Hear Me Out. She sadly passed away on September 5 that year.
After Sarah’s death, bandmate Nicola Roberts said: ‘Time is the most precious thing we have as human beings, it can run out at any point.
‘I think it would be very easy to become extremely fearful, over time, when someone so young and so close to you has ran out of it and I think it’s important not to become obsessed with it because things are still happening on their own, in your own time.
‘I think it’s important to still sort of go through the pace of your life as you were, and not become frantic about your time possibly coming to an end, or someone else that you love’s time possibly coming to an end. I think that is a dangerous place to be.’
In 2022 the group reunited at a charity ball in honour of Sarah – but did not perform together.
Girls Aloud took an initial break in 2009 to pursue other projects before they split for good in 2013.
They originally formed in 2002 on ITV’s Pop Stars: The Rivals, having been chosen by judges Pete Waterman, Louis Walsh and Spice Girl Geri Horner.
Their first single Sound Of The Underground landed them with a Christmas number one.
They went on to achieve 20 top-ten singles and were nominated for five BRIT awards.
Cheryl especially has stayed in the spotlight over the years, due to her position as a judge on the X Factor, her tempestuous love life, and most recently her appearance in 2:22 A Ghost Story.
