Cheryl - Couverture rigide

Smith, Sean

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1847372783 ISBN 13 : 9781847372789

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2009

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The whole country, it seems, has fallen in love with Cheryl Cole. From the first time she stood up to Simon Cowell or shed a genuine tear on hearing a heartbreaking story from one of the X Factor contestants she has found a place in the hearts of a nation. Now, a genuine superstar, she has never forgotten her humble beginnings in Newcastle and for the first time the real story of her difficult path to fame and fortune can be told. The UK's leading celebrity biographer Sean Smith has retraced the steps of her remarkable journey using new research and interviews to reveal the real woman behind the beautiful public face. He discovers a cheeky, feisty, and gifted Geordie girl who has had to battle for everything she has achieved.
Cheryl's story begins in a grim, working class area of Newcastle where the lives of her friends and family were blighted by drugs and unemployment. Smith explores the ambitions of a little girl who became a championship dancer and a successful child model but would bunk off school and, at the age of sixteen, entered into a relationship with a drug addict more than ten years older than herself. But thanks largely to her remarkable mother, Joan, Cheryl took her chance to win Popstars: the Rivals and become part of Girls Aloud, the most successful girl group in UK pop history. Disaster followed in 2003 when she was convicted of an assault on a nightclub toilet attendant and her dreams of stardom almost vanished. The public forgave her then, offered sympathy following allegations of her husband, footballer Ashley Cole's infidelity, before her emergence on the X Factor as an iconic figure for modern women everywhere. As her every move is scrutinised by a celebrity hungry public, Smith discusses what the future holds for Cheryl.
Fully illustrated, Cheryl is the definitive biography of this most human of superstars.

Revue de presse :

‘The truth behind 5 celebrity myths’
‘For the past year I’ve been writing about Girls Aloud singer and X-Fcator judge Cheryl Cole. Hers will be my eighth celebrity biography in as many years, a sequence that began with JK Rowling in 2001... When I work on a biography I travel with a blank notebook and an open mind, not looking for scandal, just the private person behind the public face. I start each biography by disregarding what I have read about the subject previously’
Interview in The List, Financial Times 1/8
‘Beauty’s junkie former lover tells how he put star through hell’
Extract, News of the World 30/8
‘A new, unofficial biography of the singer has revealed more about the childhood events that helped make her who she is today’
Woman 7/9
‘Sean Smith has produced a first-rate biography of a working-class girl who turned herself into a star but at heart remains a woman who isn’t prepared to forget her roots’
Sunday Express 18/10
‘In his revealing book Sean Smith gives a remarkable account of her struggle to the top’
Four stars, International Express 27/10
[Sean Smith’s] biographical note tells us that “he specialises in meticulous research, leaving his west London home to go ‘on the road’ to find the real person behind the star image”. What he tells us about Cole – the brothers in prison and the drive to succeed – shows how charm can survive and he is suitably star-struck. Smith does keep her achievements in perspective’
Recommended showbiz books for 2009, Telegraph 28/11

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1847372783
• ISBN 13: 9781847372789
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240