“Am I an actual meme?”: Nadine Coyle on Girls Aloud, the gays and her legendary lost passport
Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle on her love for the LGBTQIA+ community, the Derry Girls cameo that never happened and being “an actual walking meme”.
WORDS BY CONOR CLARK SPECIAL THANKS TO OLLIE TUNMORE We’ve all lost our passport at some point or another, haven’t we?
Nadine Coyle certainly has and it’s not a moment she’s likely to live down anytime soon. “When people see my passport, I think it’s triggering for them!” she tells GAY TIMES, reflecting on the iconic Irish Popstars scene in which she got her own birthday wrong back in 2001. “I’ve literally had people gasp in airports because they’ve seen my passport.
They’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s the passport!’” Just one year later, she would go on to join Girls Aloud, which would eventually become one of the most successful bands the UK has ever seen, with a whopping 21 top 10 hits and four number one singles under their belt.
