Biografie

[2003; on most people's expectation that boy band One True Voice would win Popstars: The Rivals] The thing about that was we thought all the girls would buy their single and we [Girls Aloud] weren't going to get to number one, so we were just having a laugh. The boys expected it too much.

[2003] I did the university thing [media and English at Leeds University], so I wouldn't feel like a complete dosser, but I stopped when this [Popstars: The Rivals] came up.

[2003; an interviewer asks Girls Aloud if they would describe themselves as feminists; all members' faces look totally blank] We're girls' girls. But we're not feminists, we're not man-haters or anything.

[2003; on her experience on Popstars: The Rivals and contestants being voted off] What you've got to understand is that to watch other people go through it was to go through it yourself.

[2003; on feeling terrible after she was chosen as a member of Girls Aloud] It took me a long time to think, "Well, they picked you, you might as well enjoy it."