Who was Girl’s Aloud singer Sarah Harding and when did she lose her battle with breast cancer?

SARAH Harding was a much-loved vocalist who recovered fame successful the aboriginal noughties.

Sadly the star died aft being diagnosed with terminal bosom cancer. Her Girls Aloud bandmates are acceptable to wage tribute to her connected Children In Need 2024.

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The precocious prima changeable to fame successful the set Girls Aloud[/caption]

Born connected November 17, 1981, Sarah Harding was a vocalist and histrion who recovered fame successful iconic popular set Girls Aloud.

She sang alongside Nadine Coyle, Cheryl Cole, Kimberley Walsh, and Nicola Roberts, but the radical divided successful 2013, conscionable a twelvemonth aft they reunited for their 10 twelvemonth anniversary.

Sarah besides had acting roles, and successful 2015, the precocious prima appeared concisely successful Coronation Street successful for a few episodes playing Joni – the woman of returning quality Robert Preston.

She besides made impermanent appearances connected TV shows specified arsenic Tumble, Celebrity MasterChef, Dating successful the Dark, and Celebrity Juice.

Away from the screens, Sarah modelled for Ultimo lingerie.

Becoming a Girls Aloud star

Sarah roseate to fame successful 2002, erstwhile she successfully auditioned for the ITV reality series Popstars: The Rivals.

The amusement was looking for 2 groups – a miss set and a lad set – who would past vie for the Christmas No. 1 single.

She was voted into the set by viewers, and joined Cheryl, Nadine, Nicola and Kimberley.

The fivesome went onto to telephone their set Girls Aloud.

The radical had monolithic success, which included respective No. 1 singles.

The set divided successful 2013, but successful November 2023, the group announced they were reuniting to observe their anniversary, and besides wage tribute to Sarah.

Girls Aloud went retired connected tour successful 2024, and paid tribute to Sarah astatine ever performance they played.

TV and movie fame

Alongside her Girls Aloud bandmates, Sarah made a cameo quality in St. Trinian’s in 2007.

After this she took connected her archetypal large acting relation successful 2008, appearing successful the low-budget thriller Bad Day.

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During a Girls Aloud’s hiatus, Sarah decided to absorption connected her acting career.

“Singing was ever my main ambition, but acting was thing other I wanted to achieve,” she told property astatine the time.

Sarah appeared successful Freefall, which aired on BBC Two successful July 2009.

She portrayed Sam, the beautician woman of Dominic Cooper’s character.

Later that aforesaid year, Sarah returned to the St. Trinian’s franchise with a starring relation in the movie’s sequel.

Despite her property astatine the time, she portrayed teenage rebel Roxy, a caller pupil astatine the naughty boarding school.

In December 2009, Sarah appeared connected MTV‘s Sarah Harding successful 24 Hours.

In 2013, she starred alongside Danny Dyer and Denise Van Outen successful Run For Your Wife.

In 2017, Sarah won Celebrity Big Brother.

Breast crab battle

On August 26, 2020, Sarah made the heartbreaking revelation connected Twitter that she had bosom cancer and it had precocious to different parts of her body.

She explained that she dismissed a lump connected her bosom arsenic a cyst during the pandemic, and lone went to doctors erstwhile her tegument began to bruise realising that thing was earnestly wrong.

Sarah was rushed to hospital with sepsis, arsenic good arsenic a failing kidney and liver – she was lone saved by a medically induced coma.

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She posted a photograph of herself from her infirmary furniture and said she is “fighting arsenic hard arsenic I perchance can” and tweeted: “Earlier this twelvemonth I was diagnosed with breast cancer and a mates of weeks agone I received the devastating news that the crab has precocious to different parts of my body.

“I’m presently undergoing play chemotherapy sessions and I americium warring arsenic hard arsenic I perchance can.”

Sad death

On September 5, 2023, Sarah’s mum, Marie, posted connected Instagram to uncover that her girl had passed away.

Paying tribute to the singer, her devastated parent wrote: “It’s with heavy heartbreak that contiguous I’m sharing the quality that my beauteous girl Sarah has sadly passed away.

“Many of you volition cognize of Sarah’s conflict with crab and that she fought truthful powerfully from her diagnosis until her past day.

“She slipped distant peacefully this morning. I’d similar to convey everyone for their benignant enactment implicit the past year. It meant the satellite to Sarah and it gave her large spot and comfortableness to cognize she was loved.”