Nicola Roberts has recalled how Ginger Spice “supported and championed” her when she auditioned to be in Women Aloud.
The 37-year-old singer and songwriter shot to fame alongside Cheryl, 40, Nadine Coyle, 38, Kimberley Walsh, 41, and the late Sarah Harding – who tragically died of breast most cancers in 2021 aged 39 – after they had been created on and received the UK TV expertise competitors ‘Pop Stars: The Rivals’ in 2002.
And Nicola has revealed fellow redhead, Geri Horner, 51, was an enormous assist to her when the ‘Love Machine’ hitmakers grew to become a giant deal just like the Spice Women.
She informed The BRIT Awards with Mastercard’s ‘The Pink Carpet Therapy’ podcast: “Geri was so supportive. She actually championed me which was loopy as a result of I used to be an enormous Spice Women fan and he or she was my favorite. At 16, to be supported and championed by your childhood idol was, like, really insane.”
Nicola – who has gone on to pen songs for the likes of Rita Ora, Tinashe, Iggy Azalea, and her former bandmate Cheryl – admitted she does not know the way she obtained by way of the insanity that got here with being in one of many largest lady bands.
She mentioned: “It’s fairly wild, actually, once you look again and you concentrate on the actual fact you probably did that and also you went by way of that have. You attempt to normalise all the pieces to have the ability to cope with it.”
Even now, Nicola finds it arduous to imagine it occurred to “5 regular ladies” with “no musical background”.
She mentioned: “It simply is bizarre. It’s fairly far-fetched when you concentrate on it. 5 very regular ladies, with no musical background, simply one way or the other managed to go to the moon collectively.”
The ladies took residence the BRIT Award for Finest Single for ‘The Promise’ in 2009, one thing they did not assume was potential, as they’d already been nominated a number of occasions earlier than however went residence empty-handed.
Nicola shared: “It was superb. We carried out and received. So it felt prefer it was a giant night time for us, and only for our workforce actually, as properly. That was seven years in, so though we would been nominated earlier than for finest group or Pop Act it simply felt prefer it was at all times not tangible. Then that night time, it very a lot was. So it was like, Okay, lastly, now we have been recognised, considerably, by this improbable institution.”
Take a look at the complete interview, out there throughout platforms through pod.hyperlink/1652102418, or watch the video model on The BRITs YouTube channel.
