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took a soap opera-like turn when Peter stepped forward and dramatically announced that he had decided to quit the show because he had lied about his age and was actually too old to be taking part in the competition. Although the melodramatic move was later viewed by cynics as premeditated and stage-managed, the gasp from the audience at the time sounded genuine and even Davina looked surprised by the news.
    Peter explained that seeing Andrew get kicked off the show a fortnight before had made him realize that he couldn’t carry on depriving the other hopefuls of landing a place in the band. The boys all burst into tears at their friend’s revelationand decision, and the girls in the audience couldn’t contain their emotions, while the judges and the host seemed taken aback.
    So after another night of drama passed, Peter headed home and the competition resumed as normal. But unfortunately for Cheryl, week two proved much more difficult than the first. Going in to the live show, Cheryl was feeling confident, and when the introduction started to Shania Twain’s ‘Still The One’, she wasn’t half as nervous as in her first performance. As she launched in to the mid-tempo number, Cheryl seemed a lot more in control than before. With positive comments from the judges, Cheryl left the stage with reason to expect that she would be safe for another week.
    However, in the results show later in the evening, Cheryl was upset to discover that her performance hadn’t impressed the TV audience as much as she had hoped, and she was devastated to find herself in the bottom four. Luckily for her, Davina revealed that Kimberley and Chloe were the ones who had received the lowest votes and that Chloe was the hopeful whose dreams were now sadly over.
    The experience of coming in the bottom four was devastating to Cheryl and she never wanted to be in that situation again. She knew if she wanted to survive in the competition she had to make sure that her next performance was a show-stealer that would make her stand out from the crowd.
    In spite of her fears, Cheryl managed not to dwell on her unhappiness for too long. In fact, being kicked off the show was the last thing on her mind when she got to meet boyband Blue behind the scenes at CD:UK. Although she wasn’t their biggest fan, she had danced to their songs many times in theclubs back home. And what girl wouldn’t be excited to meet gorgeous pop pin-ups? Here she was, nineteen-year-old Cheryl Tweedy from Heaton, backstage at one of the biggest music shows in the country, breathing in the same air as Blue – who seemed just as excited to meet her as she was them. Duncan James and Simon Webbe both bathed Cheryl with kisses when they were introduced, and admitted that they thought she was very beautiful.
    However, Duncan put Cheryl’s nose out of joint by revealing that he was rooting for Javine – though he hastily added that he liked Cheryl and Aimee, too. Meanwhile, the band’s wild man, Lee Ryan, boisterously bounded up to her and announced at the top of his voice that he thought Cheryl was ‘fit’. In fact, so stunned was he by her natural beauty that, as he was leaving, he could be heard chanting, ‘She’s fit! She’s well fit,’ all the way along the corridor until he’d left the building.
    Cheryl was left dumbstruck – never in a million years did she think she’d have bona fide hunks like Blue not only stopping to talk to her but being impressed by her looks. ‘For the first time in my life I’m speechless,’ she admitted. However, in spite of their praise, she didn’t seem too over-awed by the meeting when she was asked about her experience on Popstars: The Rivals Extra.
    ‘I think it’s every teenage girl’s dream to meet Blue,’ she told presenter Hayley Evetts. ‘But to be honest, I look at them as normal people. I was excited, don’t get me wrong, I’ve listened to their songs on the radio, but they look exactly the same as they do on the telly.’