Cheryl Cole claims Louis Walsh had 'zero involvement' with Girls Aloud

Solo star Cheryl Cole has criticised her Girls Alound manager Louis Walsh for having 'zero involvement' in the girlband's rise to success.

Cheryl joined the group in 2002 when it was formed on reality TV show Pop Stars: The Rivals alongside Nadine Coyle, Kimberley Walsh, Sarah Harding and Nicola Roberts. Walsh was said to be the girls manager but Cole now denies he had any role in the group.

"We never had management. Louis claimed to be our manager but he never did it," Cole tells Marie Claire magazine in a new interview. "We didn't talk to him or anything like that.

"He just took a cheque. Oh yeah, he took the cheques."

Cheryl is due to make a comeback with new single this month with new single 'Call My Name'. Rumours of a Girls Aloud reunion have been circulating furiously over the past year but, if we're totally honest, we're more interested in hearing what the original Sugababes will come up with, having recently been signed to Polydor Records in a million pound deal.