Girls Aloud will come collectively subsequent month to host a fundraising gala in honour of their bandmate Sarah Harding, who died a yr in the past from breast most cancers.
The Primrose Ball might be held in London on 8 October, with company together with It’s A Sin star Olly Alexander performing to boost cash for the Christie NHS Foundation Trust and Cancer Research UK, as a part of the Sarah Harding Breast Cancer Appeal.
Harding was 39 when she died final September. Nicola Roberts, Kimberley Walsh, Nadine Coyle and Cheryl will entrance the occasion alongside the broadcasters Fearne Cotton and Johnny Gould.
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Chrissie Hynde, of the Pretenders and the Kaiser Chiefs singer Ricky Wilson are additionally on the invoice.
The ball was arrange on the request of Harding, and named after the Girls Aloud observe The Promise, through which she sings: “Here I am, walking primrose”.
The band mentioned in a press release: “We are so grateful to The Londoner for internet hosting the Primrose Ball at their fantastic lodge.
“Charles Oak, hotel director of The Londoner, and Sarah had a very special bond, and holding her gala evening there will make the night even more special.
“Our hope is to boost an enormous amount of cash that can hopefully forestall different folks discovering themselves in the identical terrifying state of affairs Sarah discovered herself in.”
The group’s members took half in a Race For Life in Harding’s honour in July.
The Sarah Harding Breast Cancer Appeal needs to fund analysis to determine new methods to foretell which younger ladies, with no household historical past of breast most cancers, are more likely to develop the illness, making certain folks will be recognized earlier when therapy is extra doubtless to achieve success.
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