Can you turn it up a little bit? pop star cheryl is a multi-platinum
selling artist and performer
performin for me has always been a huge part of my life my mother always said to
me that I came out of her knowing what I wanted to do and who I was
Sheryl rose to fame on the TV talent show Popstars the rivals winning a place
in the band Girls Aloud after a series of top-ten
hits Sheryl joined the judging panel on The X
Factor and launched her solo career now was one of the most photographed women
in the world she's graced the covers of magazines
like Vogue I'm quite extrovert in the performance aid and the this
showbusiness seder guess that's where I let loose but in my private everyday
life I'm quite reserved I'm quite shy in a lot of ways born Cheryl Tweedy in 1983
Cheryl grew up on a Newcastle council estate in a large family there was five
kids in the house so it was always crazy and it was always nice being one of many
you know you felt like a little a gun a little teeth I was always a dance class
which was just a tiny little dance studio above the coop actually but I
absolutely loved it I was there like three or four days a week from Taney
from three nothing like glamorous if you like it's just hard work Cheryl now
lives in London but is proud of her roots and wants to know more about her
family's history over the years as you get a bit older you start to wonder
right for where do I come from I feel like I should be deeply rooted to the
Northeast I would think so I feel that way be dad I think is Jody to the core
and has been for centuries my mother's side of the family always feels a bit
more mysterious for some reason I just would really like to have those
questions answered once and for all Cheryl's family still live in Newcastle
so she's decided to start a search there
her youngest brother Gary is giving her a lift back to their old neighborhood
this is just literally where I grew up all these rules that's the church which
is to be the Bingle Bingle has moved in Richard slept in a swap there's heating
Bingo Club in the church yep joke they have swapped around for what reason
out of the churches the bingo and the bingo is the church that's Chris so
random isn't I used to work in that coffee GG's it's
still called GG's
Cheryl's parents separated when she was 11 her dad Gary senior still lives in
the same area Cheryl wants to find out what he knows about the family history
hi sweetheart
city for a while know I've got a few photos ever I assure you I don't know
him well that would be me how old are you on there
I'm 17 17 yeah I've got your face shape on there I'm a proper tweeted I gonna
yep that's your grandad with uncle George
Gary's father Brian Tweedy died in 1980 when Gary was just 17 years old
we lost wad ad in the age of 39 do you remember under very sure yeah as much as
I can remember somebody for 17 years we know it's crazy - its mad know that I'm
like in my thirties - think he's a few year it's just a few year older than me
when he died mmm-hmm that's your great granddad what's these news William
William Tweety Bailey he used to get he was a Korean driver the shipyards so
we've been here for at least three generations at least yeah and that's
Nora that's a great crumb with bill so she
was your Nana yes me another Nora Nora yeah
what a nice name Nora Nora and the last one look good is Nora's mom
Nora's ma'am yeah so your great grand hmm success my gris-gris Grine that
picture yes Kelsey council that's the hot that was a
name nanny Achilles or Mary Kelso hi Mary Elsa it's amazing to have
photographs though yeah not just names they're all got good teeth what's that
well I've got all of a copy of a family tree and it's mainly to do with me dad's
side from me and moving up there the Tweedy side cool - cool - then we'll
move up through the pterosaurs and particularly this I know nothing about
modern us save us no way yep
so there's James Lane Marla John Wood Lane Mariner wife Colleen and then I'm
the father the father of those is also a mariner yeah that's two generations I
didn't say that comment at all not at all cool - yeah melee I really love that
idea but Mariners that's a different thing like a doesn't mm-hmm see it's
interesting because I hate the sea I've always been afraid of it and I used to
have really bad dreams when I was little about training and the say being an old
woman with a headscarf on and I was the old woman mm-hmm mm-hmm
very funny so we got your sea legs
Cheryl's discovered that on her father's side she's descended from a family of
Mariners called the lanes
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