AIBU to not understand the fuss about Cheryl Cole?

[NeonMuffin]

Apparently Cheryl is returning to X Factor. It's on the front page of today's Sun newspaper, you'd never think that there were more important things going on in the world like a plane with over 200 people on board still being missing or all the trouble between Russia and the Ukraine

I have never got the fuss over this pointless woman. She can't sing for toffee and has an assault conviction which she's never shown an ounce of remorse for as far as I'm aware, in fact the whole thing has conveniently been airbrushed out of her backstory.

A few years ago during the peak of her popularity I updated my FB status to say that I couldn't see the fuss about her, that I thought she fake, that she couldn't sing and I was sick of having her rammed down my throat. From the many responses I received you'd have sworn I'd murdered someone. I was told I was a "hater" that I was "just jealous" and one person even said that they were "shocked and disgusted" by comments. I was unfriended by some people and was the subject of many passive aggressive status updates saying how wonderful Cheryl was and that she should "ignore the haters" obviously referring to me....

The hold she has over some is just bizarre. Maybe she's like the Demon Headmaster or something and has hypnotic powers that many fall for but others not?

I just don't get it, at all? AIBU?

I think a national treasure should be somebody who has always behaved in an impeccable manner and is a good role model to young people, not somebody who got lucky and then married a footballer
spot on impatient, a 'national treasure' is somebody like ...er.....I dunno....Judi Dench or Doris Lessing.
not 'Biffa' Cole! (love that, thanks)

Still thi k of her as the big haired batterer, thanks to unquietdad :)
Cant stand thw woman and if my dd sees her as a role model I will have considered myself to have failed az a parent

'she is a positive "rags-to-riches" role model IMO.'

Really? I think her looks and ambition have taken her from rags to riches, her 'talent' is in far lesser supply, and I've no real problem with that, it's the nature of the showbiz world. But I don't see how she could be a role model. What do you tell little girls? 'Be really, really pretty and you can be as rich as Cheryl Cole one day?'

I see Justin Bieber in the same light just in case I'm accused of being sexist.

Your attitude towards survivors of DV absolutely fucking stinks Impatient.

I seriously cannot believe you used someone getting battered as a dig against them.

Disgusting.

watched the Jubilee concert where she sang. she was grossly out of tune, so bad that the 'performance' was cut from the repeats and highlights.

the evidence, m'lud, is that she can't sing.

maybe her husband is a survivor of DV, who knows.

She's from down the road. She's utterly pointless and her family are sodding awful.

Can't stand her and hope she fades away soon.

YANBU!

She can't sing live.

She punched someone in the face.

I also can't understand the charisma and presence comments?!

She has the charisma of an old sock! She is the most insincere of people. Sharon Osbourne is (luckily) able to show more real emotion with an eyebrow than Cheryl has ever shown.

The arse tattoo is truly one of the worst things I have ever seen and I can never un-see it.

I don't feel strongly about her either way, though the particular facts of the assault conviction have always stuck in my mind, let's say.

I'm no fan, but I wouldn't hold it against her that she has a brother who is/was a junky, that's a bit low.

When I think of Cheryl, I always think of her mum going knickerless on a night out with her and her mum flashing her fanjo at the press.

Class.

She definitely can't sing when she's not got all those men doing those twiddly technical things.

Her mum did WHAT?

I can't even see the prettiness that everyone else seems to see. I would say she is reasonably attractive, but no more so than most women of that age group.

talentless thug.

she's scrubbed up well but she's still the same lowlife who battered a lavatory attendant.

pretty (if you ignore the cankles) but thick as mince and can't hold a note in a paper bag.

what are cankles?
does that mean thick ankles?
born bog-trotter u see

yes, thick ankles.

I've never really understood what's so great about her and as for national treasure...

Ages ago I read an article where they found her half sister ( I think) and made a big deal about Cheryl and all her money/glamorous lifestyle and the sister lived in a council house with so many kids by so many men, hair scraped back in a ponytail, multiple ear piercings, tracksuit etc etc basically making out she was a chav.
It made me think, take away the fame, money, hair extensions, make up, nice clothes etc and that's what you would probably be left with. So thats why I've never understood the fuss about her, strip back all the "glamour" and you'd end up with an ordinary girl living an ordinary life.

She makes me think of the Emperor's new clothes.

Did we all think she was so beautiful and worship her when Girls Aloud first began? Nope - it was merely excellent publicity circa xfActor/Ashley cole breakup.

We are told she is beautiful, therefore she is beautiful.

I personally think she is averagely pretty with a limited amount of talent and a lot of fake tan. Certainly not a great role model for young girls. And don't get me started on Rihanna...

Why oh why can't we be inspired by women who are truly inspirational? That's not a dig at anyone, just a comment on society in general.

I don't get the XFactor, The Voice, Britain's Got Talent or Simon Cowell. I couldn't be ar**d to give any of them air-time TBH.
Big Brother might be watching me....but I'm not watching Big Brother!

see, funnily enough DH and I were just saying the other day that we thought she was really pretty in Girls Aloud and was very beautiful without all the bouffant hair etc, and that we thought she looked so much better that way, so in that respect I don't think it it's just that in recent years I've been told I must find her beautiful, therefore I do. Although it's certainly true that the media manipulate our idea of beauty.

I can hardly believe I'm defending her, seeing as how I've posted a couple of times saying that I don't like her, but if she, at age 16 or whatever, looked around her and saw a life of poverty, possible drug abuse, unreliable partners, multiple children with different men (as people have mentioned might be the norm in her family) then I can't blame her at all for thinking 'do you know what? I think I'll go to that audition and see if I can get on TV, it's sure to be better than this'.

I can't believe I'm getting so invested in this discussion. I've never even watched the X factor! I didn't even know that she had ever left it!

She's very bonny. That's it. No aptitude for anything, not (to my mind anyway) charismatic or witty or bright.

and that is what pisses me off, not on a personal level but essentially if you are bonny with dimples, you have all sorts of other qualities attached to you too, even they are patently non existent.
once again it reinforces that a woman's value is how she looks and v little more.

Yes, exactly. Can't blame Cheryl for capitalising on that, but shame on all of us for perpetuating it.