Girls Aloud not threatened by 'X Factor's Hope

Girls Aloud have insisted that they don't feel threatened by X Factor girl group Hope.

The pop five-piece, who have scored 16 top ten hits since forming on Popstars: The Rivals in 2002, met Hope in their role as this week's X Factor celebrity mentors.

The established hit-makers told the young hopefuls that "there's plenty of room for a new girl band in the charts", before proceeding to advise Hope on how to cope with unwanted tabloid attention.

"Keep yourselves clean, stay out of trouble and try not to read about yourself in the papers," warned Nadine Coyle. "What you don’t know can't hurt you and most of the time it is all made up!"