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Pop star Cheryl Cole stunned her mum by keeping her Diamond Jubilee concert performance a secret.

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So her mother only found out when Cheryl appeared on the telly playing for Royalty.

“She didn’t even know I was on there until afterwards. I didn’t tell her, no, I didn’t tell anybody so I think she was a bit like ‘oh wow,’” Cheryl told Daybreak.

“She was watching obviously but I didn’t tell her I was going to be on with Gary, it was that much of a secret.”

The Call My Name singer sang Need You Now with Take That star Gary Barlow at June’s celebratory event outside Buckingham Palace.

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