Sometimes it's hard for pop artists, isn't it? When Britney feared she was becoming irrelevant, she reached for the bottle labelled ?substep? and shaved her head, while J-Lo?s relative obscurity in recent years was remedied by a genuinely insulting and lazy attempts at songs about dancing and drinking too much.

But nothing keeps a musician relevant like an assault charge and an addiction now, does it?

Sarah Harding of Girls Aloud announced today, just after a story about her and boyfriend Theo de Vries kicking lumps out of each other came out this week, that the couple met in rehab for their respective drinking problems. Now, it's not that we're taking a pop at recovering addicts and victims of domestic abuse. Far from it. In fact, you go, girl!