Iconic noughties pop sensation The Cheeky Women have reportedly swapped the stage for the showroom, having quickly “hung up their hotpants”, and at the moment are working at automobile dealerships. The Romanian twin sisters, Gabriela and Monica Irimia, burst onto the scene within the early 2000s with a string of high ten bangers, together with the unforgettable Cheeky Tune (Contact My Bum).
After first capturing the general public’s creativeness on Popstars: The Rivals again in 2002, the sisters have shifted hundreds of thousands of information worldwide. All through the years, they’ve cemented themselves as family names, one thing Monica says they’re particularly “proud” of. For now, although, they’ve “hung up their hotpants”, partly due to day jobs that could not be additional faraway from their pop star previous.
The duo, now 43, are at present “toiling away” as “salespeople at Audi dealerships”, Nearer journal stories. Chatting with the publication, the twins revealed: “Having two so radically completely different jobs is wonderful. It is like having two identities, and we love that.”
The sisters’ enterprise into motor retail got here to mild in a 2021 report, which disclosed that Gabriela had begun working as a salesman at a Hyundai dealership in York.
Monica, in the meantime, though in the identical line of labor, secured a place at a special Hyundai dealership in Lincolnshire. She instructed The Solar on Sunday they required a “stable enterprise” for his or her future, highlighting how the automobile trade would “all the time be good enterprise”.
Monica defined: “Being an entertainer is improbable, however prefer it was with Covid, if you do not have a stable job or enterprise, how do you survive? Gigs all disappeared for 2 years throughout Covid, however we did not cease making a living.”
She continued: “Typically we solely sleep two-three hours to do the gigs and get to work, nevertheless it’s price it.”
Gabriela revealed she was equally keen about her new enterprise, hinting on the time that the duo may ultimately launch their very own dealership, with punters reportedly giving them “glowing” suggestions.
She mentioned the twins are “busy bees” and, in time, they’d spend money on their very own dealership, explaining how she loves each driving and automobiles and dubbing it a “ardour for me”.
Their mom, Margit, appeared absolutely supportive of the automobile gross sales enterprise, declaring that the twins could not stay Cheeky Women without end and wanted to “have a enterprise”.
She remarked: “Let me ask you this: are you able to be a Cheeky Woman while you’re 60? She must have a enterprise and realises that lady trend is now automobiles. Girls are altering their automobiles yearly.”
Regardless of being seen as a novelty act, The Cheeky Women have achieved notable success within the music world. Their debut single Cheeky Tune (Contact My Bum) climbed to quantity 2 within the UK charts, shifting a powerful 1.2 million copies globally.
Their different releases embody Take Your Footwear Off, (Hooray, Hooray) It is a Cheeky Vacation! and Have a Cheeky Christmas.
