Girls Aloud are really, really irritating. The collective members mooch about the place either getting drunk or catching tropical diseases which no-one catches unless they’re thickly moustachioed Victorian explorers smuggling rare creatures into the hold of a creaking ship.

Then, just while they’re really boring you half stupid, they go and release a really great pop single and all is forgiven… until the next eye-dryingly boring piece of tittle-tattle hits the gossip columns.

And of course, we’re here to continue the sorry sequence of events… although, this isn’t some muttered tale about one of the girl group falling out of a taxi after downing three bottles of Malibu, but rather, a strong whiff of a band split. Yessum. Nadine Coyle looks like she may have quit Girls Aloud.