Today marks 20 years since British girlband Girls Aloud officially formed and the lives of Cheryl Tweedy, Nadine Coyle, Kimberley Walsh, Sarah Harding and Nicola Roberts were changed forever.
The group landed a string of top 10 singles between 2002 and 2009, from No Good Advice to Something Kinda Ooh, The Promise and more. In fact, before launching their solo endeavours, they achieved 20 consecutive Top 10 singles, four number ones, two No 1 albums and a Brit Award.
But it's also been two decades since the singers competed on hit talent show Popstars: The Rivals. The series before produced Hear’say and Liberty X, but the objective this time around was to create a boy band and a girl band, managed by hit-makers Louis Walsh and Pete Waterman, with their first challenge to compete for the Christmas number one spot in 2002.
