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| Birth Name(s) : Kimberley Jane Walsh |
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Full Kimberley Walsh Biography
Kimberley Jane Walsh (born November 20, 1981) is an English singer and member of pop group Girls Aloud.
Walsh was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, to Diane and John Walsh. She grew up with elder sister Sally, younger brother Adam and younger sister Amy in its Allerton suburb. Walsh's eldest sister, Sally, appeared in Emmerdale between 1997-2000, playing the role of Lyn Hutchinson. She attended Sandy Lane First School, Stoney Lee Middle School and Beckfoot Secondary School and had her first taste of fame starring in an advert as a child.
In 2000 she tried out for the role of Maria Sutherland in the soap opera Coronation Street, losing out to Samia Smith. Later she appeared in the television series This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper as Gillian Oldfield, and in the same year she starred in a BBC Educational Schools programme called Focus. In 2001 Kimberley played Tracy in Dream Back.
While studying for a BA degree in English and Media at Trinity and All Saints, University of Leeds, in 2002 during her second year Walsh auditioned for a reality television show dedicated to assembling a new girl group: Popstars: The Rivals. She and future bandmate Nicola Roberts did not originally make the final ten, but Walsh was brought back to the competition when original finalist Hazel was found to be over the age limit - she resultantly dropped out of university. On the show she performed:
- "Baby Can I Hold You"
- "Emotion"
- "Unbreak My Heart"
- "Chain Reaction"
Walsh was the fourth girl to be voted into Girls Aloud, much to the delight of her friend and new groupmate, Nadine Coyle, with whom she had become good friends during the course of the show.
While in Girls Aloud, Walsh has been popular among the group's male fan base. In April 2004, Heat magazine named her toned stomach as the fifth best in the world, ahead of superstar Beyoncé and singer Rachel Stevens. In 2005, Walsh was ranked forty-fourth in the "100 Sexiest Females In The World" list published by FHM magazine; in 2006, she was ranked at sixty-six.
Walsh co-hosted the 25 August 2006 episode of The Friday Night Project with Cheryl Cole and Sarah Harding, on which she did an impression of Pop Idol and X Factor judge Simon Cowell.
Her most controversial career moment so far has been in the 2006 video for I Think We're Alone Now. She stripped at the end of the video, causing a group of three men to faint at the sight of her naked.
As of May 2006, Walsh was dating and living with Triple 8 singer Justin Scott. Episode 5 of Girls Aloud: Off the Record featured a segment where Scott and Walsh were interviewed at their London residence which they had been sharing for about a year.
On 8 June 2006, Walsh publicly apologised for smoking cannabis after being caught on camera smoking a spliff. She immediately owned up to it when questioned about the photo, which was taken on 31 December 2005, whilst she was attending a friend's party. She told The Sun newspaper that she had got caught up in the moment and was deeply sorry, and that she realised what she did was wrong, especially since she is in a position where young fans look up to her.
However, it was reported on 9 June 2006 that Walsh's father, John, denied that she had ever smoked cannabis, and that she was just holding a rolled up cigarette that wasn't even lit. He also claimed that Victoria Newton at The Sun pressured Kimberley into apologising for something that she hadn't done, threatening that if she didn't then Newton would make the story worse.
Despite this, Walsh admitted in an interview with The Times, on 20 October 2006, that she had taken a couple of puffs on the spliff, but didn't see the incident as a big deal. |
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