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Cheryl is gutted at missing Children in Need Rocks
Gary Barlow said Cheryl Cole is “gutted” at missing a big Children in Need show.
The X-Factor judge and Take That maestro was to sing a duet with the Girls Aloud star as part of a curtain-raiser ahead of Friday’s annual BBC fundraising marathon.
But Cole was forced to pull out of the event in Manchester, where Lady Gaga and Coldplay are set to headline, after suffering from pharyngitis.
Barlow, speaking ahead of the Children in Need Rocks Manchester event at the Manchester Evening News arena, spoke of Cole’s disappointment.
“She was really excited, she was expecting this to be her one performance of the year and she’s gutted,” he said.
Barlow also joked he could not find a replacement despite more than a dozen top acts on the bill.
“I’ve knocked on every dressing-room door and no-one’s interested!” he said, before adding: “I decided pretty much I didn’t want to replace her because it was going to be a nice moment for her tonight.”
Barlow would not reveal the song they were to perform but also hinted the two might yet combine to perform the mystery track in the future. “I’m not going to tell you because there might be something else we do it on,” he said.
Nadine Coyle has told how she was almost gassed to death in a carbon monoxide leak at her LA mansion.
The Derry star revealed that her fiance and family were also nearly killed by the toxic vapour as it seeped from a broken boiler.
Speaking exclusively to Sunday Life, Nadine revealed how noxious fumes slowly filled her huge US home for FOUR MONTHS before her family realised what was making them ill.
The singer said: “We were sick as dogs from the gas for weeks and weeks. My oldest sister got so ill we all thought she was dying.
“It was the worst time of my life. We’re lucky to still be here.”
Nadine, 25, opened her heart about the near-tragedy last week — just 48 hours before Ulster businessman Killian Scallon was killed in a gas leak at his Fermanagh home.
Simon Cowell: ‘I thought Cheryl Cole was hungover when she had malaria’
X Factor boss Simon Cowell thought Cheryl Cole had a hangover when she came down with malaria.
The music mogul admits the Geordie singer was seriously ill when she got the illness but at first he just thought she had just drunk too much the night before.
He told OK! magazine: ‘When she first fell ill we thought it was a hangover, she even said that to us. But, of course, it was far more serious than that.’
The 50 year-old knew Cole, 27, was recovering when he started getting ‘grumpy’ texts from her.
He said: ‘When we got the all-clear and she started to text me, I knew she was on the mend. Then the texts got increasingly grumpy and I knew she was getting back to her old self.’
Cheryl Cole X Factor pics from just before malaria collapse
This is the horrifying moment Cheryl Cole collapses after being struck down by deadly malaria.
The 27-year-old slumps on to The X Factor desk during auditions hours before she was rushed to intensive care with the disease that nearly killed her.
The dramatic footage will be screened for the first time when the show returns tonight.
A source said: “We were very worried for her.” It started with a bit of banter about having a hangover…
But after slumping on to a chair, pale and exhausted, it quickly became apparent to her X Factor colleagues that all was not well with Cheryl Cole.
And within hours of this picture being taken, the 27-year-old talent show judge was being rushed to hospital suffering from a deadly strain of malaria.
Signs the Girls Aloud star was coming down with something began when she collapsed at the judges’ desk during auditions in Cardiff.
Resting her head on her hands, she is heard to mutter: “I don’t feel well at all.”
Cheryl Cole is keeping an emotion-packed diary about her battle to overcome her bout of malaria.
A close pal said expressing her feelings on paper has been a “true tonic” for the singer, 27, during the illness and has helped relieve the frustration of not being able to work.
The diary charting her battle will be worth millions and mum Joan Callaghan, 50, has been keeping notes as Cheryl speaks her thoughts.
“It’s pretty moving and gripping stuff,” revealed the friend.
“Cheryl’s been pouring out her feelings about being so ill, about having her mum nursing her just like she did when she got sick as a child.”
Cheryl’s camp knows that publishers will be clamouring for the print rights to her revealing and emotional yarn. It could be a follow-up to her book Picture My World, due out later this year.
CHERYL Cole has paid an emotional tribute to the doctors who she says saved her life.
Before flying out to Los Angeles with her dancer pal Derek Hough, Cheryl publicly thanked the medical team in the tropical diseases unit at University College London Hospital who treated her for malaria.
She said: “I want to say how grateful I am for everything you guys have done. I wouldn’t be here now, if it wasn’t for you.”
Cheryl was treated at UCL by specialist Professor Peter Chiodini.
The X Factor judge is reported to be planning to make a donation towards the specialist team’s unit.
Last night Cheryl flew to LA with Dancing With The Stars’ Derek Hough, who she had been holidaying with in Tanzania, East Africa, where she picked up the bug – and who has been by her side throughout her illness.
She is hoping to be well enough to return to X Factor in time for the judges’ houses stage.
Mollie King hopes Cheryl Cole will “get better soon.”
The Saturdays singer – who herself was temporarily out-of-action recently due to cellulitis – says she can sympathise with the X Factor star, as she recovers from malaria.
“Cheryl must be feeling really down,” Mollie said. “It’s horrible for anyone to miss out on work but especially with her as she’s going through a real high point of her career right now.
“At least with me, I had the rest of The Saturdays to carry on as we have a new single and new album to promote,” King then added to the Daily Record. “With her, everything has to stop.
“I just want to tell her to get better soon and hang in there. All of The Saturdays wish her better and hope she can recover as soon as possible.”
