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"The girl group has been chosen in ITV&amp;#039;s Popstars: The Rivals. The result of the viewers&amp;#039; vote was announced shortly after 9pm, with each girl called out in order of the number of votes received. The first shock came when 19-year-old Cheryl Tweedy was named as the first member of the group, having tallied the most viewer votes. Tweedy had been in the bottom two for the previous two rounds of the show, and had earlier admitted that she thought she would be eliminated tonight. 17-year-old Nicola Roberts, a last-minute replacement for finalist Nicola Ward, the contestant who walked out on the show in a row with programme makers, was named as the second member of the band, and was immediately joined by 17-year-old Nadine Coyle, an Irish girl who made it through to the final band in Irish Popstars but was dropped after she revealed she had lied about her age. Another surprise came when Kimberley Walsh, also a replacement finalist, clinched the fourth spot in the group, leaving Sarah Harding and Javine Hilton. After an obligatory commercial break, programme host Davina McCall announced that Sarah Harding was to become the final member of the group, making Javine Hilton the final eliminee. Hilton had been considered an almost certainty to make the band from the start, having received constant praise from the panel of judges throughout. Her mother and sister consoled her on stage before she made one final performance. The girl group, called &amp;#039;Girls Aloud&amp;#039;, will release their debut single &amp;#039;Sound Of The Underground&amp;#039; on December 16 in a race to the Christmas number one spot with One True Voice, the boy band formed by the show. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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