The career of Cheryl Cole is going from strength to strength as a Girls Aloud source reveals that she is about to record some solo material.

Cheryl became one of Britain’s most popular women when she debuted as a judge on X Factor last year, she has since topped many polls and is thought to be seeking a career in America.

A Girls Aloud source said the group would “take time out” this year to work on solo projects from “music to acting to beauty to fashion”.

“Cheryl is going to work on some solo music – there is no release date set for this yet as she has not recorded any music,” the spokesman said.

“Her A&R people have approached various producers with the view to working with her.

“Until she has recorded music, we can’t say who will be working on the record as we can’t say at this stage what will make it past the idea stage,” he added.

Meanwhile, rising electro-pop star FrankMusik has claimed on micro-blogging site Twitter: “I am producing Cheryl Cole’s solo album.”

So does this spell the end for Girls Aloud? I think it’s about time, don’t you?

Girls Aloud are to perform at next week’s Dancing on Ice semi final show.

The theme is wire week so the girls will be suspended from the ceiling whilst singing their latest single, Untouchable. Torvill and Dean perform their routine below them.

A source told The Sun: “Everyone’s really excited about getting Girls Aloud. It’s wires week so they’ll be suspended from the ceiling.”

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Girls Aloud may be able to perform at this weeks wedding of terminally ill Jade Goody and her boyfriend Jack Tweed.

Sarah Harding, 27, told The Daily Star: “We have had contact from Jade’s people about performing at her wedding and now it’s in the hands of our management.

“We are desperately trying to re-arrange our schedule so we can do it. It’s a very sad thing to have to discuss.”

Jade will marry Jack Tweed on February 22 at a ceremony at Down Hall, a country house hotel in Essex close to her home in Ongar.

Girls Aloud are all set to perform their newest single, The Promise on next week’s X Factor live show.

It will be the first time that a judge on the show will perform as well as mentor and will no doubt help Cheryl’s credibility as she nudges her acts towards the shows final.

The 11 remaining acts will take on songs of Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5….I wonder which unlucky soul will get Thriller?

UPDATE: Girls Aloud have since denied this rumour. They released a statement today saying:

‘They have no desire to change the line up. Over the last six years they have scored a record breaking 17 top ten singles and performed three sold-out arena tours around the UK.

Girls Aloud, Britain’s biggest girl band, are reportedly planning to go all Pussycat Dolls and recruit a sixth member of their band through a reality TV show.

The five current members, including X Factor judge Cheryl Cole, will all sit on the judging panel of the show in which they audition hopefuls and grant one the chance to appear live on stage with the band.

A tv insider told The Mirror:

“The winner will get to perform with the group on stage during a one-off concert, but the girls hope they’ll be able to discover a hidden talent who could join the band as a fully paid-up member.

It kind of makes you wonder if one of the girls is planning to leave the group. Maybe Cheryl wants to become a TV judge full time, or maybe Nadine wants to move to LA and chase some more Hollywood actors.

Girls Aloud won’t be releasing a Christmas single this year, so as not to conflict with the X Factor winner.

New X Factor judge and Girls Aloud member, Cheryl Cole, has revealed that they have avoided bringing a track out this Christmas because if a “conflict of interests”.

She toild The Daily Star: “I wouldn’t do that to myself.

“No, we won’t be releasing a Christmas record. It will be just before.”

The girls have also revealed that they will be performing their new single on one of the X Factor live shows.

Britian’s biggest girl band, Girls Aloud, will be performing their new single on this years series of The X Factor.

At yesterday’s press launch, X Factor judge Cheryl Cole laughed: “Imagine how awkward it’s going to be for me!”

Simon teased her saying: “We’re going to move the desk forward so we’re very, very close to Cheryl when she performs that night.”

It will certainly be a little strange to see a judge from the show perform on stage, but it will lend Cheryl some credibilty that some of the other judges may lack (*cough* Louis *cough*). She certainly cannot be accused of not knowing what she’s talking about….it’s her career for goodness sake!

Cheryl Cole is said to have lined up her fellow Girls Aloud bandmates to mentor her acts on this years X Factor.

“Cheryl really wanted the girls to help her because they are all so close,” a source told The People. “She is over the moon they can play a part in her new project.

“And the girls are delighted for her and looking forward to passing their wisdom on to some new talent.”

In tonight’s episode of The Passions Of Girls Aloud on ITV2, Kimberley fulfills a lifelong dream and steps onto the West End stage with a role in hit musical, Les Miserables.

Watch her get ready for her big moment in the clip below….

The Passions of…Girls Aloud, tonight on ITV2 at 10pm.

In episode two of The Passions of…Girls Aloud, viewers watch as band member Sarah pursues her passion of polo which, after training both in the UK and in Argentina, will culminate in her taking part in a game, where she will play against some polo professionals. How will she fair?

Sarah begins her training in the UK in preparation for the final match. As she arrives at the ground she declares: “It’s posh isn’t it? Oh my God, just imagine galloping from one end of that pitch to the other. This is going to be wicked.”

As Sarah observes the players from the side of the pitch she says: “My biggest nightmare would obviously be if I came off. I’m relying on what skills I’ve already got to stay on the back of that horse.”

Sarah meets her polo instructor, Tarquin, to begin her training. She sits on a stationary wooden horse, practicing hitting the ball, and then moves on to a real horse whilst hitting the ball.

The would-be-polo player heads to bed that night with a copy of Jilly Cooper’s Polo.
Day two of training begins and Sarah has to train without the stick due to a sore wrist before she watches a professional match. She comments: “I wouldn’t want to play with that lot. Are you kidding me? I’d be dead!”

As Sarah starts her training with the polo team she says: “I don’t really do relaxing, I’m always very hyper, I was a very hyper child. I think the reason I probably earned a bit of a reputation as a wild child in London was because maybe I didn’t have all this out here, I was in the city so instead of venting it elsewhere like I can out here on the back of a horse, I was maybe going out in to London and getting steaming drunk.”

After spending the evening at the polo club, Sarah starts crying in the car on the way home. “They just made me feel like I was part of the family, really. It’s just nice to settle down into something that you really love and I miss it.”

Sarah leaves the UK and jets off to El Sosiego, Argentina, to continue her training. By day two in Argentina torrential rain threatens the polo playing.

Becoming emotional, Sarah says: “I wake up in the morning and I hear the horses neighing and there’s no traffic, there’s nothing, it’s really nice. I just think it was a real leveller for me when I was growing up and it was probably much like it is today – somewhere to get away.”

After her preparation in Argentina, Sarah returns to the UK for final training ahead of her challenge to play in a polo match.

She comments: “This is an experience that I’m going to remember for the rest of my life.”

Back at the polo club in England for more training, Sarah says: “I just don’t feel ready for this, I feel like when I was in Argentina that I’d advanced a bit more and now I’m back things have changed.Tomorrow I’ve got friends and family coming down and I don’t feel prepared. I just don’t want to make a fool of myself.”

Match day arrives and before the final challenge commences Sarah has these final few words to say: “I don’t want them [friends and family] to see me play badly. I want them to go, ‘Bloody hell, didn’t know she had it in her.’”

The final match starts…how will Sarah fair?

Friday 21 March 2008 10:00pm – 11:00pm on ITV2.