CHEEKY Girls look exactly the same 20 years after their Popstars: The Rivals audition.
The Romanian twins returned to TV on Thursday’s Steph’s Packed Lunch.
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And the glam sisters got everyone in the studio dancing to their hit Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum), before joking: “We don’t age.”
Host Steph McGovern, 39, said: “I cannot believe it’s been 20 years since the first audition on Popstars.”
Gabriela and Monica, who now sell cars for a living, were just 19 when they won the nation’s approval on telly, sporting tiny hot pants and dancing to cheesy pop music.
Their early life in Romania consisted of studying gymnastics and ballet and touring with the Hungarian National Opera
After moving to the UK with their mum in 2002, the girls started auditioning for TV shows, including Channel 4’s Model Behaviour.
But it was when they auditioned for Popstars: The Rivals (won by Girls Aloud) that they shot to fame.
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Their debut single Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) sold more than 1.2million copies worldwide and reached No.2 in the UK charts.
They have claimed four top ten hits including Take Your Shoes Off and (Hooray, Hooray!) It’s A Cheeky Holiday!
The sisters are now releasing a new single written by their mum to celebrate their 20th anniversary in the limelight, called Let’s Have Fun!
The nation was left shocked when Liberal Democrat MP Lemit Opik dumped his weather girl girlfriend Sian Lloyd and got together with Cheeky Girl Gabriela.
The couple were briefly engaged in 2008 but their romance was short-lived and they broke up three months later.
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