Because it's quite possible that her PR team set up the pics. Whenever Cheryl gets papped it's because she wanted to be, the same probably goes for her mother.

It does seem very coincidental that the image of her at the counter with nappies seems to be at a close distance.

Isn't Cheryl's sister pregnant? Is it beyond the realms of possibility that her mam is buying something for another family member and not the famous daughter?

Maybe she is pregnant - but God help her if so, those 1D fans can be scary when riled.

I can't find anything on Google about her sister being pregnant.

In this article it says "But a source close to the star told Mirror Celeb: "It’s for one of her daughters in Newcastle. Joan does have lots of grandchildren."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...-payne-8921864

Someone on the DM comments said her sister in pregnant, don't know if it's true.

Celebs who are gay and want to be closeted stay single in their 20s! Cheryl married twice before the age of 30 and has had three other long term boyfriends, including Liam Payne. A gay woman would at most have been seen on the red carpet with a 'beard' but she certainly wouldn't have literally never been out of a heterosexual relationship.

Nope, this is another Tumblr myth. Those are very low quality pictures taken from behind, not specially commissioned pap pictures.

I can see you heading down the fake baby route. It's the kind of mentality I see with Larries - everything is fake, set up, paps are always called, every celeb/celeb relationship like Zigi and Zayn, Liam and Cheryl is 'PR'.

That kind of absurd thinking led the Larries to decide that Louis' baby was fake too.

First of all, I don't read tumblr, and that's not a myth. These celebs, especially Cheryl, only get papped when they want to. when has Joan ever been papped before? And she doesn't look bothered by the fact that someone is taking photos either. I'm not suggesting a fake baby. I don't think Cheryl is pregnant. I think her PR team are creating these baby stories to keep her in the media while she takes a break, and to make the relationship with Liam seem legit.


Or her PR team are paranoid by all "Why don't you have a man?" questions that come along when she does promo for a new album. When she released one her earlier albums, she was single and the questions like that were endless. So instead of letting her be single, they stick her with some guy. It has the benefits of preventing those questions, and also giving her extra publicity around the relationship. That's why she's had so many relationships that are so short-lived. They are used when needed for promo/attention/cover up some other story, then dropped when they're no longer useful. You get a lot of mileage from a fake relationship. First the "we're dating" stories, then the baby/marriage rumor stories, then the break up stories. Similar to Taylor Swift.

The life you see about Cheryl in the media is manufactured. It's not her real life. It's created by her team. She's just a product, and she's goes along with it because she lives off the attention. I wonder if she'll ever get sick of it.

As for the AC marriage, I feel like it's been discussed many times how that was a mutually beneficial pairing for both of them.

No, it's not wholly manufactured, you have been taken in by those who see conspiracies everywhere. There was no need for Cheryl to get married in her early 20s and again five years later. Her fellow Girls Aloud bandmates didn't even have steady relationships - why would Cheryl, and Cheryl alone, feel forced to lie to everyone and fake these marriages, fake joint-ownership of property, fake infidelity and humiliation, fake heartache? It just doesn't happen to that extreme extent.

Conspiracy theorists like you think they have special insider knowledge of the media that no-one else has, but you take it way too far. Yes, there are PR relationships, but there are not PR marriages, not in this century. Last century, sure - everyone knows about lavender marriages. But neither Ashley Cole nor JB were gay - Ashley is a huge womaniser and now has a child.

Taylor Swift isn't gay either. Constantly saying celebs are gay is a way of feeling you've got one over them, that you're privy to this esoteric knowledge others don't know about. It's a way for you to control them. But she's worth $200m - do you really think she'd waste her precious spare time pretending to date fellow celebs to keep ahead?

Meanwhile there are hugely successful celebs like Harry Styles who never publicly dates anyone. Many people think he's gay, so shouldn't he be fake dating and marrying someone? Why does your theory work for some but not for others?

How the hell was Ashley being labelled a love rat (not just once, but twice) by the media and the public a 'mutually beneficial pairing'? His adultery wrecked his image; the crowds at Chelsea used to chant 'rat, rat, rat' when he got hold of the ball. No-one would deliberately set up that kind of humiliation - it was the worst publicity in the world for him, and Cheryl looked like a fool too.

There is no logic or common sense whatsoever behind your claims that Cheryl is a lesbian entering into marriages as part of some kind of crazy self imposed closet.

You go girl

I think the poster was alluding to the fact that there were rumours of Ashley being gay at the same time as Cheryl was involved in an alleged racist assault on a black woman. When they got together there was a lot of speculation as to why and a lot of people pointed to this.

It's also quite possible that they didn't at all though isn't it?

How you know that Cheryl only gets papped when she wants to is beyond me as well.

Without any evidence as well.

I suppose the fact Ashley Cole has gone on to have a child with another woman is a cover up as well?

What would a pap be doing in Mothercare coincidentally at exactly the same time as Cherys mother? nad in that celeb haunt, Newcastle?? How would a normal non pap shopper with a Smartphone know what Cheryl's mother looks like in enough detail to know it was her and take a photo?

I don't know, i'm not a press photographer.

Christ, will you people let it go.

Cheryl's mother used to follow her everywhere and would be papped alongside Cheryl constantly. If you've ever been a fan of Cheryl or Girls Aloud at some point in your life then there's a good chance you know what Cheryl's mum looks like.

Why is it not beyond the realms of possibility that the person taking the photo was just someone in the queue who recognised Joan and had recently read about the Cheryl pregnancy rumours.

Cheryls mum has been featured alongside her in the media quite frequently since the Popstars The Rivals days and so I would imagine quite a few people recognise her.

I have to say as well that the quality of those pictures look more smartphone, quick snap than a professional shot.

I don't think anyone isn't aware that many lower ranking celebs do have paps on speed dial as the DM SOS shows with the TOWIE types but I'm not sure this is one of those occasions tbh

OK fair enough. I don't follow this closely at all, so couldn't pick Cheryl's mother out of a lineup

Chery's mother has not been in hiding for the last five months - she's been going about living her life - so why NOW does she get snapped in Mothercare? Come on.

As has already been pointed out, lots of people know what she looks like.

Tbf, I could pass her inn the street and not have a clue but I would imagine she's quite a well known face in Newcastle.

I'm not saying this hasn't been leaked into the media to fan the flames as I really have no idea either way whether I believe the stories or not but I'll give the benefit of the doubt until proved wrong

Yes, they do, but they haven't been snapping photos of her until she's standing in a queue in Mothercare? Do me a favour. They know exactly what they're doing.

Why would the papers be interested in a photo of her Mom in the newsagents?

Have you not considered the connection between her daughter allegedly being pregnant and someone seeing her in Mothercare? Do you really not get that?