It may have taken until the final night of the tour, but Cheryl Tweedy has finally given us all a good laugh about those resurfaced comments she once made about Girls Aloud reforming in the future.
Back in the early years of the group’s success, Girls Aloud appeared in a now-iconic documentary series titled Off The Record, which followed them around while they promoted their third album Chemistry.
Filmed in 2006, one memorable scene sees a young Cheryl looking ahead to her future, and playing down the possibility of Girls Aloud ever reuniting like their pop predecessors.
“There’ll be no reunions, though,” she insisted. “Could you imagine? 30-odd-year-old? ‘I’m just a love machine’? Nah. No thanks.”
Of course, when Girls Aloud announced their reunion tour last year, fans wasted no time in digging up the old clip, and on the last night of the tour, Cheryl finally had her say on the matter.
After spotting a sign in the audience that read “Love Machine at 41? Yes please!”, Cheryl responded on stage in Liverpool: “You might have seem a video floating around that is of me saying, ‘I’ll never perform Love Machine in my 30s’.
“If we’re going to go there, the last tour I was 29, today I’m 41! I never performed Love Machine in my 30s!”
Last year, Girls Aloud announced plans to tour for the first time as a four-piece, vowing that the show would honour Sarah’s legacy.
The group made good on their promise, celebrating Sarah’s life and achievements at various points in the emotionally-charged show.
During the tour’s last outing in Liverpool, they also included one last special tribute to their late friend and bandmate.