Nadine Coyle - Before finding fame, Coyle recorded a demo CD which was distributed to Louis Walsh (now an ex-manager of Girls Aloud) and The Late Late Show. This songs included "Fields of Gold", "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", "Love Is", and "Summertime". The demo CD is very rare as only a few copies were made (Coyle gave most to her friends and family); one found its way onto eBay and was purchased for a high price.
Coyle first found fame in 2001 when, while attending Thornhill College, Derry, she entered the Irish version of the talent show Popstars. As one of the winners of the show, Coyle was selected to become a member of the group Six. Shortly after the group was formed, the members moved into a house together and all were interviewed on camera. Coyle was 16 years old at the time, and the minimum age for the group was 18. Whilst writing her date of birth, 15 June 1985, she was told to change the birth year to 1983. During an interview on Irish Popstars, where the contestants where asked for their dates of birth, Coyle slipped up and gave her real date of birth. She was then asked by Linda Martin, one of the show's judges, that if she was really 16 would she own up and tell the truth, to which Coyle answered, "Aye (yes) I would, I think it's only right." But when Coyle didn't tell the truth and protested on that she was 18, she was asked to produce her passport to prove her age, but she claimed that she'd left it at her home in Derry. Soon after she had been found out, and even though she had already won a place in the band Six, she was told that she had to leave because she was underage. She then returned to her secondary grammar school, Thornhill College.
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