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THE PARTNER

Cheryl

Singer and television personality

Cheryl is an English singer who rose to fame with Girls Aloud after Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. Her solo hits include Fight for This Love and Call My Name, and she has also worked as a judge on The X Factor.

Ashley Cole
Former partnerAshley ColeView profile ↗

Football relationships

Reported past relationshipKieron Dyer
Born
30 Jun 1983
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THE BACKGROUND

Career and background

With I Don’t Care in 2014, Cheryl became the first British female solo artist to achieve five UK number-one singles. It followed Fight for This Love, Promise This, Call My Name and Crazy Stupid Love, giving her a chart milestone separate from the success of Girls Aloud.Source: Official Charts Company ↗

Her work outside music includes helping fund a youth centre in Newcastle. She raised £1 million through Cheryl’s Trust towards the centre, which opened in 2018 and hosted Prince’s Trust programmes supporting young people with confidence, training and employment skills.Source: Newcastle United Foundation ↗

WHO’S WITH WHOM

Relationship history

Cheryl married Ashley Cole in 2006 after they began dating in 2004. Their marriage ended in divorce in 2010. She later married French restaurateur Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini in 2014; they divorced in 2016.

Between those marriages, she dated dancers Derek Hough and Tre Holloway. Hough later confirmed their brief romance, while her relationship with Holloway lasted from 2012 to 2013. Earlier reporting also linked her to Jason Mack before Girls Aloud.

Cheryl and Liam Payne became a couple in 2016 and welcomed Bear in March 2017. They announced their separation in July 2018 and continued to co-parent their son. Payne died in October 2024.

Kieron Dyer later recalled briefly dating Cheryl before her relationship with Ashley Cole. In his autobiography, he said their connection did not develop into a serious partnership.

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FAMILY

Children

  • NameBear Payne
    Date of birth
    Other parentLiam Payne

Bear is Cheryl’s son with Liam Payne.

Family life

In her October 2017 Vogue interview, Cheryl described returning to recording with renewed enjoyment after becoming a mother. She said the quieter period away from releases had changed her outlook and that music was already part of life with Bear. The account connects her return to work with her experience of early parenthood.Source: British Vogue ↗

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