Girls Aloud star on final episode of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (2024)

Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway will air its final ever episode this weekend with Girls Aloud set to make an appearance as Star Guest Announcers.

The beloved ITV game show, hosted by Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, will end with a bang on April 13 as Cheryl Cole, 40, Kimberley Walsh, 42, Nicola Roberts, 38, and Nadine Coyle, 38, return to Saturday evening TV for the first time in over a decade.

Their appearance comes as the noughties girl band are preparing for their reunion tour which will kick off next month in Dublin, making it their first on stage performance together since 2013.

However, the group will sadly be performing for the first time ever as a four-piece after their late bandmate, Sarah Harding, tragically passed away from breast cancer in 2021 aged 39.

Girls Aloud will be bringing their 2024 UK and Ireland tour, which they are doing in honour of Sarah, to Glasgow's OVO Hydro for three nights from the 8th to the 10th of June with tickets available here.

The Love Machine hit makers first rose to fame as teens when they won ITV'S Popstars: The Rivals with their debut hit single Sound of the Underground.

The band went on to become one of the most successful girl groups in British music history having released four albums which featured some of their iconic chart topping records such as 'Something Kinda Ooooh', 'The Promise' and 'Biology'.

Girls Aloud later went on hiatus for three years between 2009 and 2012 before they embarked on a tour to celebrate their ten year anniversary and finally announced their split the following year in 2013.

At the time of their split, there was a lot of speculation about a secret feud in the band after Irish singer Nadine Coyle told the Mirror that the other four girls had made the decision behind her back without 'breathing a word' about it.

After their split was announced, she previously took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to write: "You should know by now I had no part in any of this split business. I couldn’t stop them. I had the best time & want to keep going."

However, Cheryl later called her bandmate out in an interview with Attitude, as she claimed that Nadine's claims were all lies.

She said: "She was the one who wanted to make a solo record. Which is why we took the hiatus. She wants to come out and say we broke the band up? No! She shouldn’t tell porkie pies."

Since Girls Aloud called it quits, all members remained in the spotlight, particularly Cheryl, who welcomed her son Bear with One Direction star, Liam Payne, back in 2017.

Before becoming a mother, the Newcastle born singer went on to become a successful solo artist and a judge on the X-Factor panel from 2008 to 2011, mentoring two of the show's winners.

However, the girl group have since put their differences between them in the wake of Sarah Harding's heart breaking death and have put on a united front since then.

Discussions were said to have been made about a twenty year anniversary tour a few years ago before Sarah fell ill but the idea was pushed back as Cheryl previously said: "It just didn’t feel right, it felt too soon".

The band's appearance on tonight's last ever episode of Saturday Night Takeaway will not be their first as the girls were actually some of the first victims of Ant and Dec's TV pranks segment almost twenty years ago.

Back in 2004, the iconic Geordie duo disguised themselves as uptight nuns to interview Girls Aloud in a cringeworthy sketch which left the girl group in fits of laughter.

During the grand finale of the ITV game show, which has been on air since 2002, Ant and Dec will also be joined in the studio by Simon Cowell, Davina McCall, Rylan, Oti Mabuse, Amanda Holden, Dermot O'Leary, Craig David, and Alison Hammond.

Viewers will also be treated to a super-sized Singalong with S Club, Tony Hadley, and Kaiser Chiefs while show favourite Ring my Bell will return for a final outing.

Hosts Ant and Dec announced the show was going on hiatus last year in a joint video announcement on Instagram.

The pair said: "We've decided that our 20th series next year will be our last one for a little while. The show takes up such a lot of our year we just feel we need a bit of a breather and that the show is going to take a little bit of a rest."

The duo are said to be taking a break for the sake of themselves and to spend time with their families but have insisted that it will be back at some point in the future.

The final episode of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway will air at 7pm on ITV.

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