Cheryl signs deal for tell-all autobiography. Ashley Cole: you have our permission to panic

Cheryl signs deal for tell-all autobiography. Ashley Cole: you have our permission to panic

Is it too early to start queueing? Cheryl Cole has signed a megabucks deal with publisher HarperCollins to write her life-story.

The book is due to come out on October 11 with the money men hoping it'll hit the bestseller lists in time for Christmas.

(She'll have to get cracking. Two months to write, edit, publish and market a book? Sheesh.)

The book is expected to go into detail about her marriage and split from love rat ex-husband Ashely Cole - which is really what everyone wants to read about, isn't it? Just us? Don't lie.

We bet Ashley won't enjoy this news. Anyone got his phone number?

 

The book will cover her childhood and her rise to fame through ITV talent show Popstars: The Rivals. It should also cover her brief tenure as a judge on The X Factor US - and her subsequent firing by mate and mentor Simon Cowell.

We're guessing Simon might feature heavily in the book - especially as he talked about her in his biography by Tom Bower.

This is exactly the expression Simon is going to pull when he hears about the book

 

HarperCollins said, "For the first time Cheryl will tell her story in full in her own words."

We're so excited we almost forgot it's nearly dinner time. Now we're excited about this and dinner. The scandal! The gossip! The cheating!           

Hurray! It's revenge time!

 

We just hope she doesn't skim over the whole break-up bit. Not because we're gossip vultures (okay, not only because we're gossip vultures) but because it always gets right up our noses when people write 'autobiographies' and skip out massive chunks of their lives. You can't suddenly think "well, this isn't their business" if you're writing a bloody autobiography. By the very nature of the process you're saying your life is our business.

Anyway - back to the book.

Carole Tonkinson, publisher for Harper non-fiction, said, "Cheryl Cole is the nation's sweetheart. We are absolutely thrilled to be publishing her story.

"Cheryl's an amazing woman with a capacity to inspire everyone. She emerges from every challenge stronger and with more grace and good humour and beauty - inner and outer.

"We're still pinching ourselves that Cheryl chose us as her publisher and we're going to do everything in our power to make this the Christmas number one."

Can you even begin to imagine how much they must have paid her? Is that crass? Sorry. (Not really.)

The Girls Aloud girls will no doubt play a starring role

 

Cheryl has previously said she would consider writing a book about her life - mainly because there are so many unauthorised ones doing the rounds: "I see these girls that say, 'This is literally like a bible for me - I read it and I hang off every word it says', and I've had nothing to do with it. I don't have the heart to say 'this book is almost completely made up'."

Want to know where Cheryl's come in our 100 Top Girl Crushes list? You can ogle our gallery here.

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