Cheryl is one of Britain's biggest stars. As a pop and R&B recording artist, songwriter, dancer and model, she is also a multi-talented performer. She rose to fame in late 2002 when she auditioned for the reality television show Popstars: The Rivals on ITV. She has since become a role model to a whole generation of young girls. Cheryl was interested in dancing from an early age and started sequence dancing at the age of four, before joining The Royal Ballet's summer school at the age of nine. She won modelling competitions, including the titles of Boots Group's 'bonniest baby' and Mothercare's 'Happy Faces Portrait' competition. Cheryl Fernandez-Versini is a member of the chart-topping girl group Girls Aloud. She has been part of the group's twenty consecutive top-ten singles (including four number one singles) in the UK and five platinum albums and earned five BRIT Award nominations from 2005 to 2010. The group's debut single Sound of the Underground peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the 2002 Christmas number one. Girls Aloud hold the record for the shortest time between formation and reaching number one. Cheryl is also a successful solo artist and has released two solo albums, which both went to number one in the UK: 3 Words (2009) and Messy Little Raindrops (2010). Cheryl's first solo performance was on American rapper will.i.am's Heartbreaker single in 2008. She was picked to appear as a dancer in the video after taking streetdancing classes during the filming of the ITV2 series The Passions of Girls Aloud.