Cheryl Cole: "Ashley and I have never spent Christmas together"

Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole has told radio station 96.4 FM The Wave, that she has never spent Christmas with her husband and longs to put on a pinny and baste his turkey.

Speaking to Badger and Emma Davies on the Breakfast Show about what it like being married to the England and Chelsea left back Ashley Cole at Christmas, Cheryl said: “I’ve never spent a Christmas with Ashley, never. He goes in a hotel on Christmas Day because he plays on Boxing Day. They [the Chelsea squad] train on Christmas Day and then he’s away. He’s also away over the New Year period; I never get to see him.

“I can’t wait to make Ashley a Christmas dinner, that’s a part of my life I’m really excited about. We said last year that we would spend our first married Christmas together. But then my family were like ‘well if he’s got to go at 1pm I’d rather you were here’ so I ended up going to Newcastle for Christmas.”

Asked by Miles how Ashley would be spending his Christmas Day, Cheryl said: “He will have Christmas dinner with his mother and then he has to leave at 1pm or 2pm to go to the hotel and then I think they have a Christmassy type dinner in the evening. But because Ashley has played so long it’s got to the stage where he doesn’t love Christmas anymore.”