Cheryl Cole has branded the Spice Girls "b****es" whose success has been overblown.

The Girls Aloud singer - who is currently starring as a judge on UK TV talent show 'The X Factor' - claims the 90s group don't deserve to be lauded as pop icons because their reunion was so short-lived and they are not as talented as her band.

Cheryl revealed she finds it infuriating when people on 'The X Factor' say they want to be "the new Spice Girls", adding her group's success is much more impressive.

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She told Attitude magazine: "I think, 'P**s off!' We've been around for six years - they were around for 18 months! We recognise what the Spice Girls did, but it really annoys me when you meet girls who go, 'We wannabe the next Spice Girls.'

"Yes, they had worldwide domination, but they fell out, b****ed about each other and went their separate ways. We've been around for all this time, fighting to climb each step of the ladder, putting our hearts into everything."

The 25-year-old singer added that, unlike the Spice Girls, her group - consisting of Nadine Coyle, 23, Sarah Harding, 26, Nicole Roberts, 23, and Kimberly Walsh, 26 - are all "friends".

Girls Aloud formed on TV talent show 'Popstars: The Rivals' in 2002 and have gone on to score a record-breaking 18 top 10 UK singles, three of them number ones.

Megan Fox (born May 16, 1986) is an American actress and model. Fox's career in modeling and acting began with her winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. She began her acting with the film Holiday in the Sun (2001), later appearing in the films Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Crimes of Fashion, and the TV series The Help (all 2004). She is well known for her roles on the television series Hope & Faith (2004) and in the 2007 live-action film Transformers.

Early Life
Fox was born in Rockwood, Tennessee, and has Irish, French, and Native American ancestry. Her mother is Darlene Tonachio, former Roane, Tennessee Tourism Director. She grew up in a "very poor" household and has one older sister. She was offered her first job at elite pictures london where she was given her first opportunity to star in a movie. Fox began her training in drama and dance at the age of 5 in Kingston, Tennessee. She attended a dance class at the community center there, and was involved in Kingston Elementary School's chorus and the Kingston Clippers swim team. At age 10, after moving to Florida, she continued her training and finished her high school education.

Miranda Kerr (born 20 April 1983) is an Australian model, best known as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. She was the first Australian addition to the Victoria's Secret campaign, and was the face of Australian fashion chain Portmans and now David Jones Limited. Kerr rose to prominence within the fashion industry in her mid-teens after winning a 1997 Australian nation-wide model search hosted by Dolly Magazine and Impulse fragrances. Kerr's career has continued to expand, and as of 2008, she has achieved international fame.

Early life
Kerr was born in Sydney but raised in Gunnedah, New South Wales, a small rural town. Her parents are Therese and John Kerr, and she has a younger brother named Matthew. During her childhood, Kerr stated she "raced motorbikes and rode horses on [her] grandmother’s farm" and describes her early life in the Australian countryside as "very grounding ... there wasn’t any pretentiousness and no one really cared what you were wearing. You could just be you."

Her family moved to Brisbane to allow Kerr and her brother to experience city life. She graduated from All Hallows' School and planned to study nutrition before pursuing modeling.

Paris Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American celebutante, singer, actress, model, and businesswoman.

She is best-known through the television series The Simple Life. She has appeared in several minor film roles, most notably in the horror film House of Wax in 2005. In 2004 she published a tongue-in-cheek autobiography. In 2006, she released her debut album Paris. Hilton's career pursuits include singing, modeling, acting, writing, and television. As a result of several legal incidents, Hilton served a widely publicized sentence in an L.A. County jail facility in 2007.

Early Life
Born in New York City, Hilton is the oldest of four children of Richard and Kathy Hilton (née Avanzino). She has a sister, Nicky, and brothers, Barron and Conrad.

On the maternal side of her family, she is a niece of two child stars of the 1970s, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards. Hilton was related by marriage to Nicole Richie's godmother, Nancy Davis, when Nancy's brother, Greg, was married to Kim Richards.

Hilton's paternal grandparents are hotel chairman Barron Hilton, and his wife, the former Marilyn Hawley; Barron Hilton's parents were Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton and his first wife, Mary Barron.

Hilton moved between several exclusive homes in her youth, including a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons. She attended Marywood-Palm Valley School in Rancho Mirage, California her freshman year of high school; Dwight School in New York for her sophomore and junior years; then a few months at Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut before dropping out. Hilton eventually earned a GED.[citation needed]

In December 2007, Hilton's grandfather Barron Hilton pledged 97 percent of his estate to a charitable organisation founded by his father, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. An immediate pledge of $1.2 billion was made, with a further $1.1 billion due after his death. He cited his father's actions as the motivation for his pledge. According to reports, the potential inheritance of his grandchildren is sharply diminished.

Rachel Stevens (born April 9, 1978) is an English singer, actress, and an occasional model. A former member of the successful pop group S Club (7), she launched a solo recording career and has released seven singles and two albums to date in the UK.

Early Life
Born in Southgate, London, Stevens attended Ashmole School in London. At the age of fifteen, she beat out 5000 competitors in a modeling competition sponsored by Just 17 magazine. Following her first modeling jobs, she studied at the London School of Fashion and worked in public relations.

Personal life
On Valentine's Day in 2002, Stevens became engaged to her longtime boyfriend, actor Jeremy Edwards. The couple broke up in early 2004 after they had been dating for over three years.

After the breakup, she dated Gavin Dein, son of former Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein. The relationship did not last long, with the couple splitting up in August 2005.

Stevens has also been linked to actor Stephen Dorff[23]and American-based British singer Oli Trevena (Oli T).

Singing Career
At the age of nineteen, Stevens accompanied her brother to an audition in London for a new pop group, which was being put together by Simon Fuller, the one-time manager of the Spice Girls.

After a successful audition, Stevens became a member of the British pop group S Club 7, which were a BRIT Award-winning English pop group created by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller. The group rose to fame via their own BBC television programme and by selling 16 million records worldwide and launching four number one hit singles in the United Kingdom. S Club disbanded in 2003.