Girls Aloud have opened up about their 2024 UK and Ireland tour, revealing that late bandmate Sarah Harding suggested they reform during her cancer battle.The iconic ‘00s girl group announced details of their reformation last night (November 22), confirming that members Nicola Roberts, Kimberley Walsh, Cheryl and Nadine Coyle would be coming together for a run of live shows next year.The 2024 gigs will mark their first performance as a group since 2013, it will also be their first tour since the death of bandmate Sarah Harding, who passed away in 2021 due to breast cancer.Now, the members have opened up on why it was the right time for them to join forces again, and explained how the idea was first put forward to them by Harding amid her battle with cancer.“It’s hard to talk about it,” Roberts told British Vogue in a new interview. “It’s hard for us to be here without her.