Sarah Harding dies: Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts and Geri Horner among stars paying tribute to singer". Sky News. 5 September 2021. I felt a bit letdown with how little music is discussed, we get a fair bit of info about Girls Aloud's debut album and key singles that followed but Sarah's solo song/EP Threads is never mentioned by name and her solo venture was glossed over a bit.

The band got to Christmas number one that year with their debut single, Sound Of The Underground, and went on to become one of the most successful pop groups in British music history. In the message, Sarah wrote: "Hi everyone! I hope you are keeping safe and as well as possible with everything that’s going on.

My amazing mum, family and close friends are helping me through this, and I want to say a thank you to the wonderful NHS doctors and nurses who have been and continue to be heroes. Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (5 September 2021). "Sarah Harding, singer with Girls Aloud, dies aged 39 from breast cancer". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 September 2021.

She made a guest appearance on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as Joni Preston, the wife of Robert Preston ( Tristan Gemmill). The character made a few appearances in July and August 2015 as her marriage to Robert disintegrated when he began an affair with ex-wife Tracy Barlow ( Kate Ford). [40] Roberts shared a series of photos of them together during Girls Aloud's early years and wrote: "I'm absolutely devastated and I can't accept that this day has come. My heart is aching and all day everything we went through together has raced round my mind.But what I got from this was how brave and strong Sarah was. I never realised how insecure she was. I can relate to her problems with alcohol and I like that she made a point of saying people who go through rehab to better themselves should be treated with respect, instead of being made to feel like they're weak for having an addiction. I called the book Hear Me Out because it's the title of the song I wrote on the second Girls Aloud album and I’ve always really loved it. In 2002, Harding auditioned for the reality television show Popstars: The Rivals. [11] The programme, the second British series of the international Popstars franchise, would see the creation of two rival groups – a boy band and a girl group each consisting of five members, which would then compete against each other for the 2002 Christmas Number One spot on the UK Singles Chart. Several thousand applicants attended auditions across the UK in hope of being selected. Ten girls and ten boys were chosen as finalists by judges Pete Waterman, Louis Walsh and Geri Halliwell. These finalists then took to the stage participating in weekly Saturday night live performances (alternating weekly between the girls and boys). Each week the contestant polling the fewest phone votes was eliminated, until the final line-ups of the groups emerged. Harding joined Nadine Coyle, Cheryl Tweedy, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh to comprise the new girl group Girls Aloud, formed through the show by a public vote on 30 November 2002. [1] Earlier this year I was diagnosed with breast cancer and a couple of weeks ago I received the devastating news that the cancer has advanced to other parts of my body. Sarah Harding: Girls Aloud stars lead tributes to singer". BBC News. 6 September 2021 . Retrieved 6 September 2021.

She slipped away peacefully this morning. I'd like to thank everyone for their kind support over the past year. Girls Aloud crowned the biggest selling girl group of the 21st Century". Officialcharts.com. 18 October 2012 . Retrieved 27 December 2012.Sarah went public with her cancer battle last year, revealing she's been undergoing treatment since early 2020.