Cheryl Cole has announced that she has separated from her husband of three years, Ashley Cole.
Cheryl, who performed at the Brits last week without her wedding ring flew out to LA but returned this morning and her spokesperson announced the news a few hours ago.
The split comes after Ashley is rumoured to have cheated with Cheryl five times during their three year marriage. Cheryl had in the past taken him back and given their marriage another go but now she has seen sense and has shown him the door.
Many find the split a shock because it was thought that she and Ashley were deeply in love.
Friday’s live episode of EastEnders was a huge success for the BBC drawing a huge audience. Just under 17 million viewers saw Stacey Slater admit to killing Archie Mitchell in the special installment celebrating 25 years of the show.
With 60 per cent of the available television audience watching, EastEnders trounced Coronation Street and Emmerdale, picking up seven million more viewers that its Weatherfield rival. Emmerdale fell to an audience low on Thursday night up against an hour long ‘Enders which saw Ricky and Bianca and Bradley and Stacey tie the knot. The rural soap dropped to four million viewers against EastEnders’ 11 million.
It has been a successful week for the BBC soap, celebrating 25 years with the climax to such a massive storyline which has been kept quiet for 12 months. Lacey Turner who plays Stacey only found out 20 minutes before the episode went live and the cast found out by watching a monitor in one of the show’s studios.
The episode was very well produced with 32 cameras instead of the normal four in operation. With only two camera wobbles and Scott Maslen fluffing his lines at the beginning but managing to recover, the show can be proud of the production and in particular the reveal and a stunt that saw Bradley Branning die after falling off the roof of The Queen Vic.
Lacey Turner’s performance was outstanding and I really did not think that she would be unmasked as the killer than pushed The Queen Vic bust onto Archie’s head on Christmas Day.
If you have not seen the episode it is available on the BBC iPlayer.
BBC Three made a ratings record as well with a whopping 4.2 million tuning in for the live aftermath show where George Lamb and Kirsten O’Brien went behind the scenes. This is the biggest rated multichannel show for the channel.
Below is a clip of the reveal as well as Bradley’s dramatic exit.
Cheryl Cole has announced that she has separated from her husband of three years, Ashley Cole.
