We generally don’t cover British “celebrity” Cheryl Cole, but I found this story interesting. Granted, I’m an American and I only really know Cheryl from the handful of comments our few Cheryl stories have gotten. So… she was in a girl group, and then she became a popular judge on one of the British singing shows, and then she married a footballer, and she also has a past strewn with violence and bigotry, right? Does that about sum it up? Oh, and lots of British dudes are totally hot for her and lots of British ladies want to look like her.
Anyway, Cheryl is in America now – she moved to LA after her marriage to serial cheater and thunder-stealer Ashley Cole fell apart. Cheryl dumped Ashley after several women came out publicly to say that they boned him. Cheryl has got a certain good-girl image in the UK is seems, and she’s hoping that the image carries over to America, I guess. She was maybe “dating” Derek Hough, although Perez claims they aren’t now because Cheryl is with some Black Eyed Peas back-up dancer. Basically, Cheryl has been keeping a pretty low profile, but that may soon change. According to a random report in a British tabloid – that everyone is picking up now – Cheryl has been offered six figure to pose for Playboy. The initial report has the offer at 500,000 pounds, or roughly $770,000, but some sources have upped the price to a cool million. The problem? Little Miss Wholesome doesn’t want to ruin her good-girl image! Um…she realizes that barely no one in America knows who she is, right?
The famous men’s magazine wants the stunning X Factor babe for a centrefold shoot. Bosses at 84-year-old media mogul Hugh Hefner’s publication think Cheryl, 27, has the perfect looks to be a hit in the States.
They reckon her quirky accent and toned bod make her perfect to follow other famous centrefolds such as US reality star Kim Kardashian, 29. Bosses are said to have promised the Geordie babe half a million pounds to pose wearing nothing but her famous northern smile. They are on a mission to find gorgeous Brits after Kelly Brook, 30, proved hugely popular.
The Daily Star discovery was snapped in a lacy thong, bow-tie and black bowler hat for the magazine’s September edition. But down-to-earth Girls Aloud star Cheryl looks set to turn down the offer of appearing in the buff, insisting it is not for her.
A pal said: “Cheryl is incredibly flattered by the offer but she’s always been fundamentally opposed to going nude in magazines. She reckons it’s great if other girls can do it, but it really isn’t her. People won’t believe it but she is actually incredibly shy when it comes to all that stuff.”
Cheryl has also been warned not to pile her workload high as she recovers from malaria.
The insider added: “Cheryl has a fortune of £10million. It’s not like she needs the money.”
[From The Daily Star]
Kelly Brook had a magnificent rack going for her – but I could see Cheryl being a popular choice with American men. She is very pretty. But American men won’t get the chance to see her bits and pieces, it seems like. Personally, I think it’s a dumb move to walk away from the offer. It would be a solid introduction for her in America, and she would probably get a lot of work out of it. What the hell, you know? Especially in this economy – that’s a lot of money for someone most Americans don’t give a crap about.
One last thing – is that a gigantic tattoo on her thigh?
Cheryl in Hollywood on August 5, 2010 and in Ireland in June. Credit: WENN.
I’m British and you’ve described her pretty accurately. She was discovered on a Simon Cowell talent show a few years ago and is now basically famous for being gorgeous and being a nice girl.
I think it’s good that she turned down this offer. She doesn’t really ever do nudey stuff and it seems a bit ridiculous for her to start just so she can crack America. At the end of the day she’s in with Will.i.am and Cowell so it’s likely to happen anyway in my opinion.
I’m English… and I hate this girl.
Her band, Girls Aloud, were put together on a reality TV show, and she’s had quite a bit of work done in recent years to make her look this hot. Pre-whatever she’s done, she was pretty average looking.
And she’s a nasty piece of work – she was arrested and convicted for assaulting a bathroom attendant, and arrested again for glassing someone. Since she’s been on X Factor though people seem to have forgotten that, because she cries all the time and Simon Cowell likes her.
She’s as dumb as a plank for turning Playboy down.
Yup, that’s a pretty large, pretty disgusting tattoo. Each to their own, though.
After being convicted of assault in the early days, she’s certainly managed to swing the public around to ADORE her over here. There’s no denying she’s a beaut’ but I just don’t get the big deal with her though.
Yes true Sophie! I was going to say that as well about her assault charge…I’m indifferent to her but i think everything she does is very calculated. She has excellent managers.
Who reads Playboy these days? Doesn’t anyone under 50 get their porn on the Internet?
@Sophie-what’s “glassing”? Is that like throwing a glass at someone?
Very pretty woman.
“Personally, I think it’s a dumb move to walk away from the offer. It would be a solid introduction for her in America, and she would probably get a lot of work out of it.”
Kaiser, please tell me you’re joking. You can’t seriously be saying that she has to get naked and sexually objectify herself in order for her to get noticed in America. I think the similar rise to fame by so many talentless famewhores (Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Heidi Montag) has normalized this concept in our minds. Cheryl Cole, while not the best singer out there, actually has some degree of talent and natural good looks. I think she should use that in order to earn LEGITIMATE fame.
I know I’m conservative, narrow minded, and totally-awesomely unhip but I want to scream at women with tatoos aka tramp stamps, especially unbelievably beautiful women. Why oh why does a woman that gorgious permanently emblazen something that ugly on such a lovely body???? WTF big time!!!
Blergh, that tattoo! She is like the definition of a footballers wife/WAG. Well ex-wife I guess….
I think Kaiser hasn’t had coffee and is groggy as heck, cos that’s the only way to parse the “dumb move to walk away from Playboy” bit.
First of all, PB didn’t offer her enough. Had they offered, say, $10 mil, maybe, but measley 700k to 1 mil?! Please.
This girl is the ROYALTY, THE queen when it comes to glamour/trashy/useless girl celebs of Britain. She makes tons of money from appearances and the like.
She would NEVER ruin her rather profitable brand as the girl next door for some chump change like 1 mil. Too much future earning to lose.
I didn’t realize she was supposed to be a nice girl. I thought sexy photoshoots was how she stayed relevant.
I think she is beautiful. My husband thinks she is pretty too but that tattoo grosses him out. I think it wraps all the way around her thigh.
She is supposed to be Britain’s sweetheart, tramp stamps notwithstanding.
I don’t think she’s all that, even for Britain. Keira or Kate Beckinsale is prettier, but for some reason that near midget is very highly thought of. It’s hard to get away from people gushing over her.
Never heard of her.
I think it is wonderful that she is sticking to her personal principles instead of selling out for money. Very honorable.
I live in Britain too and i don’t get why anybody even likes her.
She is in a girlband, married a footballer that cheated twice and allowed her to milk it twice, got a job on the X Factor as Simons lapdog and is completely boring.
She had stuff dont to her face too, got convicted of assault etc and just used to start arguments with other singers like Lily Allen and Charlotte Church and said she would knock Charlotte out and then when they were in the same building she locked herself in her dressing room lmao
She’s pretty. But she’s kinda bland, and too sweet looking, like Kelly Preston or fellow Brit, Frankie Sandford. That tattoo is not making her “tough”, only dirty.
She’s pretty, and I’ll giver her props for not subjecting herself to the doormat treatment like Toni Terry, but a singer she really ain’t.
She is pretty, and her tattoo is fine with me. Personal choice just like posing for nude photos. The right to do whatever they feel was hard won by women in this country, and if they wanna get half a mil to pose nude, than wouldn’t it be them laughing all the way to the bank?
Why do you assume that she wants to look “tough”? I have 7 of ’em & I didn’t get a single one so that people would think I am a bad-ass. I got them b/c I like them & I guarantee that she did too.
I love how people hate tattoos so wholeheartedly. I imagine those lives must be so just black and white. Book slams closed!
Another English person who doesn’t care for Cheryl. She’s more hair extension than substance.
I think it’s great that she turned the offer down. I am tired of girls with little to no talent trading their bodies for fame. Let them trade something else for a change!
In this girl’s case, the fact that she married a serial cheater has probably helped her image as a sweetheart greatly. No one wants to hate a victim. Just look at Jennifer Aniston! I’m not sure she’d still have a movie career if not for the Brangelina scandal. TV, yes. But, I’m pretty sure it’s her tabloid coverage that makes her a big enough star to headline all those romcoms she’s in. *runs and hides from all the JA fans*
But, anyway, Cheryl is very popular in the UK and doesn’t need to get naked for Playboy just to expand her career. People forget that America is not the only major market in the world. Maybe she doesn’t even want a career over here. She could just be here to recover from Ashley “Tiger 2.0” Cole. She seemed pretty genuine about the marriage. It’s possible she’s not thinking of her career at all right now.
Um…is this article actually calling a woman dumb for not posing for Playboy?
I’m sensing a double standard here…just because this woman has “trashy” tattoos and is an ex-wife of a footballer [insert whatever “unclassy” thing about her past/present you might like] then she shouldn’t consider herself above posing for Playboy?
So what if the girl’s not one of the more talented and well-known celebrities and not everyone finds her likable? If she doesn’t want to pose for Playboy, for whatever reason, then it’s her choice. Why some women feel the need to relegate other women to just being the chicks in male magazines is beyond me…
YEAH! Finally a famous girl with morals!!!! You go Cheryl. Only desperate, untalented girls pose in Playboy.
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I haven’t heard of her, so I can’t say anything personal. If she’s a bottom feeder, I don’t know about it.
I can’t impugn a person who isn’t becoming famous for the sole purpose of setting up a base to pursue her true ambitition: stripping. What a woman does isn’t important because the goal of every one (we keep being told) is to reach a place in her career (aka, the afterthought to whatever gets you to full throttle sexiness) where bands of oversexed sycophants salivate over her in dreary puff pieces.
Doesn’t anyone else ever get tired of being force fed some ubiquitous carnal delight in a publicity assault, then being shamed into lapping it up lest we all be labelled as ‘jelluzz h8rz’?
So help me, I respected when Rachel McAdams didn’t sit for that Vanity Fair poor man’s Dejeuner dans l’herbe redux. And I’ll admit it, I get kind of disappointed when someone I once liked ends up ripping off all her clothes at every opportunity because the only thing of substance is being hot, hot, hot *ahem Christina Hendricks*. These are the days when your cup size makes you a freedom fighter, yeah, okay. But it’s a woman’s right to choose, so who am I with my narrow little mind to contest the choice? At least I can self-aware about my not terribly admirable irritation.
But how interesting it is that we seem to be switching from the virgin-whore opposition to one of the suppressed sheep versus the celebrated sexpot. Now the greatest indicator of ’empowerment’ (a four-letter word as far as I’m concerned) is for her to make a choice about her body that relies on serving it up as wank fodder (then disingenuously denying that she has that kind of appeal). But more and more, it doesn’t seem like a choice in the truest sense, just something you have to accept. ‘Ladies, are you the inheritors of the sexual revolution? Do you want people to know that you don’t support a mass backsliding into shame and prudishness about the body? Prove it, show us your tits! No? Well you’re probably fat anyway, you backwards, shrewish hate merchant.’ I don’t know, I just don’t know.
Let’s hope she never becomes a stay-at-home mother, she’ll get flayed alive.
Just like:
“Hey Hey! We’re the Monkees”
and many many imitators since put together to make money & attract the public.
Guess she doesn’t need money, and yeah, the tattoo looks gross. Not “good girlish” at all.
For those who were wondering, “glassing” someone means introducing their face to a glass. Often times a pint glass after a booze up.
Who? again I say Who? Why would Playboy even consider that kind of money for a woman who has virtually no name recognition stateside?
I live in England and I don’t like this girl. She was convicted of assault and she didn’t even apologize to the poor lady she hit, who was a law student trying to make a living working as a toilet attendant in a club! Now people adore her in the UK, for some strange reason. She is stupid, untalented and nasty. Her “girl next door” image is pure PR. Hopefully America will not fall for that!
Check the assault story here (it is a safe link, on the BBC site)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3207822.stm
I’m normally fine about tattoos, they don’t bother me if they are done well, look good and have some meaning behind them. But that hand tattoo and what I can see of the leg one, look awful.
She is very pretty, but I don’t know or care to know anything about her.
Now I am a fan of tattoos, but Cheryl Cole’s are nasty and ugly. She’s pretty.. but very plastic. And she’s not a great singer. But y’know.
Why she gotta have that COLE-ass surname still attached? Can’t she drop it and go with her TWEEDY
wasn’t their whole marriage a sham cover up anyway? She was arrested for being racially abusive and he’s rumoured to be gay – so how convenient to marry each other and milk it before you have a very public split and milk that too? Those tattoos of hers are totally not on either…can’t they be lasered off?
the reason why the british have made such a big fuss about cheryl cole is because they dont have anyone else its not like america where its filled with celebrities she is not talented she basically fake with all that work done to her
You Maravilha whatever – Cheryl did NOT act without being provoked in that incident in the ladies toilets and furthermore Cheryl did say SORRY to the attendent – Why don’t you all give the lady a damn break ! she came from a tough background where she HAD to Stand up for herslef !! same as any poor areas around the world ! she has a right to have dreams and LIVE her dream and she pushes herself hard to better herself ! what is wrong with that ? you haters make me laugh ! if it was YOU instead of Cheryl then you would shut up ! So what if she chooses to have Tattoos ? it’s her body and she don’t need anyones approval GET OVER IT HATERS – She has bags of personality a REAL person who ordianry people can relate to , and she CARES about other humans and a big heart , sad very sad when people can not be happy for others to impoove there lives !! CHERYL COLE YOU ROCK AND WE LOVE YOU AND YOU CAN ENTERTAIN AND Sing and Dance … Keep Rocking Cheryl xxxxxxxxxxxx