TS: Lily Allen vs. Cheryl Tweedy

Lily on The Daily Ten making fun of Fergie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHZg2KVJtR4

ROFL. She's awesome.

Lily arrested for attacking papparazzi.

RAWWWWWWK.

http://thesuperficial.com/2007/06/29/lily-allen-attacks.jpg

kind of think we shd have a cheryl deathwatch thread

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1293283/Cheryl-Cole-fluid-lungs-reveals-Derek-Hough.html

Yeah but... it's the Mail. Buried in the middle of that article:

Dr Wiselka added that while Mrs Cole has probably discovered the illness in time and so avoided damage to her kidney and liver. However, he said it is unlikely she will be able to return to work for a number of weeks

Doesn't sound like someone at death's door.

sometime in the past 1-2 years there was a subtle shift whereby lily allen became the correct answer to this thread's question

Lily Allen is still obnoxious and appalling. Still Cheryl. Music doesn't really come into it.

Doesn't really help that Lily has honestly the worst speaking voice I have ever heard. Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to let her try her hand as a TV presenter?

I like lily allen...Cheryl is just a monster.

Don't care about personae really, but I like Cheryl's album a lot whereas there's about 2 Lily Allen songs I like.

cheryl is imo 'less completely repellent', persona-wise, than lily allen. can take or leave cheryl really, but lily is actively horrible, and hasn't appeared on a single listenable record. cheryl can't sing so far as i can tell, and im not interested in hearing her solo work, but she was in girls aloud and that still counts for something. also cheryl is more attractive, tho ppl overdo this. don't like expensively educated people who pretend to be/are thick, seems kind of like a waste.

I'm reminded of Cheryl's toilet attendant incident.

http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/story/tweedy.-i-hit-attendant.-but-am-no-racist

I know who cheryl tweedy is now :-/ she must have been on min 3/4 of celeb mag covers over the last year or so.

I wish we'd see this mug that frequently instead

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4094/4779912504_4826e9683c_m.jpg

^^^ So fucking indie.

(who is that btw?)

Fellow (former?) Girls Aloud member Nicola.

Ah right, thought it was but she looks different.

A view on the once and future Tweedy from America:

Cowell tells me that in addition to himself and Antonio “L.A.” Reid, the chairman of Island Def Jam Music Group who resigned to join The X Factor panel on Fox (and about whom Simon said “was my No. 1 choice to sit alongside me on the show"), he has made up his mind to bring back Paula Abdul beside him and to add a Brit singer convicted of assault who's unknown to American audiences, Cheryl Cole. Of course, Cowell was once an unknown here, too. I understand from Cowell that negotiations for Abdul's deal hasn't even started and that Cole's deal isn't quite done yet. And of course, he could change his mind.

But an insider tells me about Cole that "she's pretty much a shoo-in for the show" and will be announced as a judge within less than a week. When I asked Simon about "this Cole woman" who began judging on the 5th season of Cowell's British version of The X Factor which is now in its 8th season, he laughed at my description of her. I opined about how hard it is for UK personalities to click with U.S. audiences. Though she has her own widely imitated catchphrase there telling wannabe contestants they are “really, really luv-erly” in her incomprehensible Newcastle accent and has become a UK tabloid obsession, over here she'll just be another nobody. (As Jennifer Lopez asked recently, “She is a singer, right?”) But Cowell responded: "I never think about it as an American or British audience. I genuinely don’t. I think that’s what's happened on a lot of these shows now is it's almost like you’ve got to hire well known celebrities to be a judge. And with Cheryl, when I hired her initially, I'd only met her literally once when I offered her the job on (British) X Factor. I thought she was bright, cute, knew what she was talking about, ambitious. And you meet someone special a few times in your life.. And this girl is special. She's just got a great ability to communicate. Shes a great judge. She's smart. It's just a hunch. If people take to her like the British public did, I think she's going to do really well in America. And Fox was desperate to hire her."

"Really?" I asked. "I heard there was pushback from Fox."

"No, absolute opposite," Cowell claimed. "Mike Darnell and Peter Rice will tell you they wanted her all the time, I showed a tape to Mike Darnell two years ago of a clip I'd shot in England of Cheryl and he said there and then, 'I'd hire her now for Idol.' They absolutely fell in love with her. In a way, the deal, it was almost conditional on Cheryl having the gig. They were desperate for her."

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As for Cole, a few weeks ago both Reid and Cowell let slip that she would definitely be a U.S. judge, though they later retracted their statements. Surely none of the contestants auditioning for The X Factor producers in LA (over 18,000), Miami (12,000), NY (20,000), Seattle (over 5000) and in audition booths placed in various regional markets for those who can't make it to the audition cities, have a clue about Cole. She first became famous after winning Popstars the Rivals, a TV forerunner to The X Factor. Then called Cheryl Tweedy, her first single with her girl group Girls Aloud went to No. 1. What set Girls Aloud apart from other robotic R&B girl bands was their 1960s sound masterminded by Cowell’s music producer Brian Higgins. Cheryl married soccer star Ashley Cole in 2006 and seemed set to be the next celebrity footballer's wife after Victoria Beckham. Now known as Cheryl Cole, her solo career took off after she teamed up with will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, who exec produced her smash hit Fight For This Love.

But the working class-rooted Cole also has a rough history: she punched a washroom attendant in the face after they got into a fight. Cheryl was convicted of assault and ordered to do community service. In fact, Cole’s criminal record was a worry because the U.S. authorities usually refuse entry visas to those with a criminal past. This would have derailed Cole’s U.S. X Factor chances. At first villified, Cole saw the pendulum of public opinion swing back after her husband's adultery was exposed by the British tabloid press. Cole is a special obsession of the News of the World owned by Rupert Murdoch who also owns Fox where Cole will appear.

First thing in the comments:

I just googled this Cole person. I don’t see any tattoos.

Cheryl Cole has come out fighting Chris Brown’s corner after publicly telling everyone they should move on from his assault on Rihanna.

Speaking to In:Demand with Alex James, the pop vixen commended Rihanna for forgiving Brown over the infamous beating her gave her back in 2009: "I think it's really kind of her actually. She's come out and publicly forgiven him really,” the popstar said.

"I think it's about time we all did if I'm completely honest, if you want my opinion."