Published Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Cole gave a slightly chaotic performance of her hit song Fight For This Love when she faced the crowds.
The star, who has maintained a dignified silence amid intense media interest in her marriage, received strong applause and said simply: "Thank you, thank you."
After her performance, host Peter Kay quipped: "Fight For This Love, never a truer word spoken."
The song, in which Cole performed a change halfway through, stripping off a white coat and sunglasses before returning to continue her performance in a black sparkly hooded leotard and baseball cap, has been interpreted as a stark message to her husband.
Over the past few days the England and Chelsea player has faced a plethora of newspaper reports about his private life.
His 26-year-old wife had previously been pictured minus her wedding ring following reports about her husband.
But the defiant star insisted on that occasion that the decision was "a fashion statement" rather than a reflection of the status of her marriage.