Cheryl Cole felt like SHE was cheating on Ashley

Cheryl Cole felt like SHE was cheating on Ashley
Cheryl Cole felt like SHE was cheating on Ashley (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Cheryl Cole has confessed she found dating hard after her split from husband Ashley Cole, because she felt she was cheating on him. The 29-year-old singer - who has found new love with dancer Tre Holloway - split from footballer Ashley after more than four years together, following allegations that he had cheated emerged in the newspapers. Cheryl told Glamour magazine: "It takes a long time after you've been with someone as long as I was [with Ashley] not to feel like you're cheating on them. "That may sound crazy, but it's the way I felt after him. I had completely committed myself." But she insisted she doesn't want pity. She said: "I'm not unlucky in love or anything else. And I'm absolutely not a victim. I'm strong, happy and settled - and I really don't give a s**t any more." Girls Aloud star Cheryl hit out at internet trolls who criticised her weight, comparing it to 'bullying in the workplace'. She said: "You can't call someone who's a size six fat. "An average woman is a size ten to 12, so if you're calling me fat because I'm a size six, and I have never ever been bigger than an eight, you're causing women some serious issues. When you're on the receiving end of it, it's nothing short of bullying in the workplace."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.