Nadine Coyle reveals Girls Aloud bandmate Cheryl has reached out to her

Nadine Coyle has admitted the rest of Girls Aloud are not her “best mates” but they are back in touch after Cheryl reached out to her.

The girlband - Coyle, Cheryl, Sarah Harding, Kimberley Walsh and Nicola Roberts - formed on Popstars The Rivals in 2002 and split in 2013 amid rumours of a feud.

Coyle, 34, has told OK! magazine: “It's been seven years since the last reunion tour and it feels like seven years!

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"Cheryl emailed me recently and I bumped into Kimberley [Walsh] a few weeks ago as well, which was lovely. I haven't seen Sarah Harding or Nicola in a long time, but everything remains very cordial.

"We're not best mates, it's just the way it's always been.

"I'm very close to a lot of people from my time in the band, like our hair and make-up people and the dancers, but you gravitate towards the people that you have stuff in common with."

Walsh, 38, recently sparked rumours of a reunion.

She told The Sun: “We do have an anniversary coming up. It will have been 20 years in 2022, it’s a long way off still.

“Everybody is busy at the moment, but I have a lot of love for all the girls, I’m proud of all of them.”

During her time in the jungle on I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! last year, Coyle revealed she had never been close to her bandmates.

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She said: "Everyone gets on with their lives. I mean I was friends with them all, it was fine. It was all nice and lovely and subtle.

"But I was always in the gay bars with all the guys, I would be out partying, me and ten guys would be out partying, making the most of it. I was 18, 19-years-old, I would be going wild. [I’d go to bed] at 8am or 9am in the morning!”