Sarah Nicole Harding (born 17 November 1981 in Ascot) is an English model, actress and singer for the pop group Girls Aloud.
Harding attended Hazel Grove High School from 1993 to 1998, and later attended Stockport College. She then worked as part of the promotions team for 2 nightclubs in The Grand Central Leisure Park in Stockport. Harding was also a regular singer at karaoke nights in the Whistling Jig, Puss and Boots pub as well as many others and did some vocals for Project G on some unreleased tracks. Project G was a band for which Harding provided lead vocals, long before Girls Aloud came along. She did some photoshoots for promotion but no album, nor known singles exist. Some tracks that have leaked onto the internet include "Searching" and "Don’t Wanna Be Alone ". She entered the UK talent-search show Popstars: The Rivals.
Harding also entered FHM’ s High Street Honeys, the magazine’s NATIONAL beauty contest, AND her pictures appeared IN the first TOP 100, but she later withdrew, upon achieving success ON Popstars.A year later, she was voted one OF the TOP 30 sexiest women IN the world, BY readers OF the same magazine. IN 2005, she entered the same TOP 10 at Number 8, slipping TO Number 15 IN 2006, AND TO Number 17 IN 2007. She however, IS also the twice running Miss England.