[Firewire]

POP beauty Nadine Coyle’s solo career has been plunged into crisis by a series of crippling budget cuts.

Nadine Coyle, 24, was desperate to launch her first album this summer in a bid to rival Girls Aloud bandmate Cheryl Cole.

But the US-based starlet – who yesterday denied claims that she is at personal loggerheads with Cheryl – has been left fuming after her £900,000 budget was slashed to £200,000.

Sources say investors are reluctant to back her when she is not a cast-iron chart certainty.

A source close to the star revealed: “There had been plans for a huge production and spectacular £300,000 video. To rival Cheryl she knows she needs something pretty amazing but her big ambitions have been ruined."

“There will still be an album but Nadine could be forced to invest money of her own.”