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Harding's natural warmth, energy and glamour were key parts of the chemistry that helped Girls Aloud soar and blow a breath of fresh air through the charts. Wearing her emotions on her sleeve endeared Harding to viewers. In the final, five spots in the band were up for grabs. Cheryl Tweedy, Nicola Roberts, Kimberley Walsh and Nadine Coyle had all been told they were in - meaning it was between Harding and Javine Hylton for the last seat. When Harding's name was read out, she staggered, sobbing uncontrollably, to sit alongside her new bandmates. Three weeks later, Girls Aloud were number one. They were the first band to have a Christmas chart-topper with their debut single and the first girl group to debut at number one. Girls Aloud's other slices of pop brilliance, crafted by writers and producers Xenomania, included Love Machine , Something Kinda Ooh , Call the Shots and The Promise . The last of these earned the band a Brit Award for best single. The success fulfilled a dream Harding had held since her father, a session musician, started taking her into recording studios when she was three years old. Harding was born Sarah Hardman on 17 November 1981 in Ascot, Berkshire, and moved with her family to Stockport, Greater Manchester, at the age of 14. "This is my angry song but there's some real heartbreak stuff that I've written," she said of her debut solo single Threads, which came out in 2015. Threads missed the UK Top 100, however, and her solo career was over.Against that backdrop the tune "almost tore a hole in the space-time continuum", declared The Guardian's Michael Cragg.Girls Aloud's other slices of pop brilliance, crafted by writers and producers Xenomania, included Love Machine (2004), Something Kinda Ooh (2006), Call the Shots (2007) and The Promise (2008). The last of these earned the band a Brit Award for best single Harding also got into acting, appearing opposite Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike and Riz Ahmed in the 2009 BBC Two drama Freefall. She said "I've been in constant pain with my knee injury,"