Cheryl Cole steps out in see-through dress to celebrate 26th birthday

October 5th, 2009 LONDON - Singer Cheryl Cole says that she restrains from alcohol because she is scared of ending up like her alcoholic granddad. The 'Girls Alound' member revealed that her granddad had died due to alcohol.

October 5th, 2009 LONDON - 'Girls Aloud' member Cheryl Cole has hinted that she does not trust her footballer husband Ashley Cole. "I've come to the conclusion that I don't trust anybody in life except my mother and my dogs," the Mirror quoted her as having told the Sunday Times magazine.

September 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Cheryl Cole has joked that she is planning to gift teeth whitener to Simon Cowell on his 50th birthday. Contactmusic quoted Cole as saying: "I'll buy him some teeth bleach whitener! No, I'm joking, I shall have to think about it." Cowell will turn 50 on October 7.

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - 'X Factor' co-judge Cheryl Cole has not only become a big star on the show, but she has also been chosen to be an international beauty model. Cole, 26, will be joining a bevy of A-list showbiz stars like Eva Longoria, Jennifer Aniston and Penelope Cruz as one of the glamorous faces of global cosmetics brand L'Oreal Paris, reports the Daily Express.

August 27th, 2009 LONDON - X Factor judge Cheryl Cole has become the new face of L'Oreal after bagging a lucrative deal from the French cosmetics and beauty products brand. Cole will lead the L'Oreal campaign in the UK and she will start with promoting a hair product called Elvive Full Restore 5.

August 17th, 2009 LONDON - Cheryl Cole has ditched her nice girl image in a bid to get nasty for the new series of 'X Factor'. The last series saw the Girls Aloud singer blub her away through many emotional moments on the hit ITV reality show.

August 11th, 2009 LONDON - Cheryl Cole's record label Polydor Records are doing everything possible to make sure that her new solo album becomes a hit. The music company even got controversial fashion photographer Nick Knight to snap her.

August 9th, 2009 LONDON - Cheryl Cole has coloured her hair red. The X Factor judge made an appearance with her new red locks at Guy Ritchie's pub, The Punchbowl in Mayfair, London, this weekend.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - Aussie singer Dannii Minogue is said to have made a peace offering to 'The X Factor' co-judge Cheryl Cole by presenting her with a state-of-the-art robot vacuum cleaner. Minogue, 37, gave Cole the 300 pounds Roomba Vacuum Robot at her 26th birthday bash in London's Vanilla private club.

July 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - 'Girls Aloud' member Cheryl Cole is reportedly set to take up the role of a music manager, once her career with the band ends. Cole, 26, a co-judge on British TV talent show 'The X Factor', thinks that women make the best managers.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON - Even though fellow 'The X Factor' judges Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue are said to be rivals, friends were surprised when the two appeared amicable at Cole's birthday bash. But Cole, who turned 26 on June 30, has been revealed to harbour insecurities about how her relationship with 37-year-old Minogue will fare over the coming weeks.

May 20th, 2009 LONDON - Little Britain star Matt Lucas has claimed that Cheryl Cole is the only woman who could 'turn him' from being gay. Lucas, who has admitted to have never slept with a woman, says that he would happily have sex with Cole.

May 12th, 2009 LONDON - Girls Aloud member Cheryl Cole is reportedly the latest celeb to have a fake Twitter page set up in her name, which features a link for kinky sex. The fake page is said to have duped even Radio 1's Chris Moyles, 35, and TV star and Twitter fanatic Stephen Fry, 51, with its message boasting Cole to be a "Singer, Dancer, Judge and Climber - in that order!!" Moyles fell for it after he saw the page announce "Cheryl Cole is now on Twitter!!!".

May 11th, 2009 LONDON - Brit pop singer Lily Allen has dismissed reports that she has once again waged a war of words with Cheryl Cole. Allen, 24, was reported to have called Cole, 25, "stupid" and "superficial", and to have also dubbed David and Victoria Beckham as "sickening", and branding Posh a "monster" in a recent interview with French magazine SoFoot.

May 4th, 2009 LONDON - Girls Aloud member Cheryl Cole was left 'absolutely terrified' after she was bitten on the lips by a female fan. Cole, 25, was posing for photos outside her hotel when a teenager lunged at her, and as per witnesses the X Factor judge looked "petrified" when the incident occurred.