The 'Fight for This Love’ singer has revealed she was completely in awe of the pop sensation and even gave herself a 'horrendous' hairstyle in a bid to look more like her idol.

She said: 'I was obsessed with Beyonce. I remember seeing the video for 'Bills, Bills, Bills’ and just going, 'Oh my God, who is this girl? I want my hair like hers.’ I literally went out and got my hair bleached peroxide blonde. It took eight hours and it looked horrendous.

'She’s just a star. She’s just got it. She’s everything a woman should be and everything you should want to be as a woman. But I didn’t know that at the time.'

The 26-year-old singer even went so far as to copy the eccentric outfits the US starlet wore with her girl band Destiny’s Child.

Cheryl added to Stylist magazine: 'It was cool. I always wanted that urban, baggy jeans look. I’d cut things up and experiment, it always went dreadfully wrong. And then you hit a point where you think I won’t do that again. I can’t wear that again.'