Who is Sarah Harding? Celebrity Big Brother 2017 contestant profile

Age: 35

Twitter: @SarahNHarding

Instagram: SarahNicoleHarding

Best known as: one fifth of Girls Aloud, the most successful female pop group in the UK since the Spice Girls

Bio: Harding is no stranger to reality television: she shot onto the scene in ITV's Popstars: The Rivals in 2002 as one of five female contestants – also including Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh – to be chosen to form a group that would eventually become Girls Aloud.

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After 11 years, 20 consecutive top 10 hits and four number 1s, the band called it quits in 2013.

During Girls Aloud's run and the pre-split hiatus between 2009-2012, Harding dabbled in acting, appearing in BBC TV film Freefall and St Trinians 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold – which scored a paltry 10% on Rotten Tomatoes.

What has she been up to post-split?

Despite a solo album reportedly having been in the works since 2012, it has never materialised, although she released a sassy single, Threads, in July 2015 to little fanfare.

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She made a guest appearance on Coronation street the same year (check out a clip of her appearance on the soap below) and appeared in reality series The Jump in 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vvB6a8-1s0

Sarah may want to turn to pal Callum Best, who appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2015, for advice on her latest reality adventure.

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Is she single? She certainly is.