The 10 most searched female celebrities of 2018

Laura Hannam

·Reporter

12 December 2018 at 0:22 pm

10. Cheryl

35-year-old Cheryl returned to the limelight this year with a new song ‘Love Made Me Do It.’ The Geordie singer had taken a four-year break from music and during this time had her first child son Bear with her now ex Liam Payne (of One Direction fame). Unfortunately the comeback song failed to light up the charts, and peaked at number 19 in the UK. She also came under scrutiny for her surprising new look and for a very bold X Factor live performance. And while she was dropped as a L’Oreal spokesperson this year – all is not last – as she has just launched her very own hair extension brand ‘Cheryl Easilocks.’

It’s been another wild year for celebrity gossip but which female celebrities dominated the UK’s Yahoo Search engine? We’ve got many Americans – including several Kardashians – several British celebrity staples and even a legendary Aussie.

Slide through our gallery to find out which celebrity female was most searched for by UK Yahoo users in 2018…

To develop the Yahoo Year in Review, our editors analyse Yahoo Search queries based on a number of factors, including absolute volume and growth from previous periods, to see which themes and trends bubble to the surface. Individuals and their Search queries always remain anonymous. This list is constructed without navigational searches – i.e. searches where the intention is clearly purely to navigate to a site rather than to discover information.

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The 10 most searched female celebrities of 2018

10. Cheryl

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