Simon Cowell says Cheryl Cole would have clashed with former X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger
Simon Cowell has revealed the real reason behind Nicole Scherzinger's exit from the X Factor panel - a predicted clash between her and new judge Cheryl Cole.
The music mogul has admitted in a new interview that he felt he had no choice than to say goodbye to Nicole following Cheryl's confirmation of her return to the ITV show.
He said: 'I didn’t think the two of them would work well together.'
The pair would previously have worked together on The X Factor USA in 2011, when Nicole hosted the programme alongside Steve Jones, but Cheryl was fired as a judge from the panel after just a few days - leading to a long-time feud with Simon which was only recently resolved.
I thought Simon Cowell loved "drama for media attention" on X Factor. That's the reason he hired Britney
Spears, because he thought she was going to have a meltdown live. In any case, remember when
Scherzinger and Paula Abdul were consistently the best dressed females in X Factor's history?