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Cheryl Cole sparkles at first day of US X Factor auditions
Cheryl didn’t disappoint yesterday as she made her debut in America as a US X Factor judge.
She arrived at the LA auditions in a seventies-inspired outfit of purple Diane von Furstenberg flares, tangerine Oscar de la Renta blouse and bright turquoise belt. She teamed her look with a back-combed bouffant hairstyle.
Cheryl did a round of press interviews before posing for photos outside the Galen Center in Los Angeles.
Paula Abdul also joins the panel, and very excitedly tweeted a picture of her and Cheryl backstage:
@PaulaAbdul: Pic of me & Cheryl Cole http://ow.ly/i/bknr Gotta tell you about Cheryl- ‘The Fierce’ is STRONG w/ this one!
The live auditions of The US X Factor are happening in Los Angeles (last day today) Chicago, Newark, Miami, Dallas and Seattle.
If your lucky enough to live in one of those cities and want to go along, check [HERE] for details.
For the US version of The X Factor, there will be no ‘Xtra Factor’ episodes. However they have made a website for all extra gossip www.xfactorxtra.com
See below for the forum links to view over 200 pictures of Cheryl arriving and also some press videos.
Its Official! Cheryl Cole is a judge on The US X Factor
Its finally been confirmed after months and months of speculation and hype, Cheryl Cole has landed a top job as a judge on the US X Factor. She will join Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid on the judging panel of the show and she cannot wait to get started.
Cheryl says “I’m so excited to be taking part in the American version of The X Factor.
I absolutely love it here in the UK, and with the talent they have out in America, I’m sure we’re going to find someone very special. I can’t wait to get started.
I just can’t decide whether I am more excited to find and nurture the talent or for the unbelievable amount of amusement and entertainment I will have watching Simon doing everything and anything he can to beat me.
He’s tried to beat me for three years in the UK, and hasn’t even come close. His ego must be so bruised. America is gonna love this.”
Simon, who has worked alongside Cheryl for 3 years on the UK version of The X Factor said “I’m thrilled for Cheryl. She is massively excited about this show, and has been fantastic to work with. She is also a complete brat! Most importantly, this girl can spot talent.”
Auditions start this Sunday 8th May through till 26th May. The show will be shown on FOX channel in America AND also on ITV2 in the UK!
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Simon Cowell ‘confirms’ Cheryl as a US X Factor judge
After months of speculation, the biggest hint yet of a confirmed US X Factor panel has come in an interview Simon Cowell gave recently to Deadline.com.
In it, he says Paula Abdul, Antonio ‘LA’ Reid and Cheryl Cole will join him as judges on the talent show, which is set to begin later this year.
Defending his choice of the Girls Aloud singer, who is relatively unknown stateside and whose accent Deadline.com describes as “incomprehensible”, Cowell claims she is “special”.
“She’s a great judge. She’s smart. It’s just a hunch. If people take to her like the British public did, I think she’s going to do really well in America,” he adds.
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Simon Cowell’s representative came out firing in response not long after the news broke, claiming nothing is set in stone and those two ladies were just a few possibilities among many.
Cheryl plans duets with Rihanna, Nicki Minaj & Katy Perry for debut US album
Cheryl Cole‘s team are trying to land the singer a number of A-List collaborations for her debut US album ahead of her appearance on the American X Factor.
The Girls Aloud star who looks certain to judge on the US talent show has already released two albums in the UK but her management want to put together a new album which would help launch her music career in the country.
The album will feature new songs and the best tracks from her two UK albums “3 Words” and “Messy Little Raindrops” with some being revamped to appeal to the US market according to sources.
An insider said: “Cheryl’s management want her to become the next big popstar in America and are working on securing some A-List names for the album.
“A Rihanna duet is a certainty and will.i.am is trying to convince Minaj to work on the LP too. Katy Perry has also been in talks with Cheryl about a duet as she is a big fan.”
The insider added that Cheryl is “desperate” to work with Beyonce and Britney Spears too but knows that a collaboration with both superstars would “take a long time to achieve”.
The album will also feature a few of her tracks with Black Eyed Peas will.i.am who she is good friends with as well as her collaboration with Travie McCoy, it is believed.
Cheryl Cole has given her strongest hint yet that her US X Factor dream may be over.
She admitted her career diary was empty as boss Simon Cowell and co procrastinate on whether to give her the job. ‘I really plan to not plan,’ the 27-year singer and X Factor judge told Glamour magazine.
‘I’ve had my life mapped out for the best part of ten years, so for now I just want to enjoy myself and live in the moment.’
With hopes of a starring US role in the balance, Cole also delivered a defiant retort to American TV bosses who said people would struggle to understand her Geordie accent.
‘It’s going nowhere. Absolutely nowhere’, she insisted after it was suggested she should get elocution lessons.
And it might not be such a bad thing after all if the Fight For This Love singer returns to Britain as she misses the food and drink here.
‘Ringtons tea from Newcastle is the best. I always ask my family to bring me some when they visit,’ she claimed.
‘I also miss British chocolate, American chocolate is awful! It’s like wax. I have to get some Dairy Milk or Galaxy brought out. As for their KitKats… I don’t know how they can even call them KitKats.’
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Another aspect of American life she might not miss is the obsession with health regimes. ‘I honestly don’t have one,’ the Girls Aloud beauty boasted.
‘People give themselves too much of a hard time with stuff like that – just do it if you want to. I don’t have a regime that I regularly stick to. But the TV out here is non-stop with adverts for the latest health craze.’
Instead, Cole claims you’re far more likely to find her relaxing on the couch with her favourite tea and chocolate watching the royal wedding – after she became a confirmed fan of Kate Middleton.
‘I can’t wait to see Kate’s dress,’ she added. ‘She’s going to look beautiful. I asked my hairdresser what she thinks Kate does to her hair to get it that shiny. She looks as though she just wakes up with it looking like that.’
A tabloid has claimed that judges Simon Cowell and Cheryl Cole have decided not to take part in the next series of ‘The X Factor’ in the UK.
The News of the World says Cowell and Cole, tipped to work together on his US version of the show, have told ITV bosses that they would not have the time to appear on both programmes.
Cowell is quoted by “a friend” as saying: “I’m committed to the American show and I’m not going to do both.”
A source told the paper: “Simon would have to produce two big shows at the same time and he and Cheryl would have to mentor and judge acts in both countries. It would just be too much for them.”
Cowell appeared to say last week in a US interview that he would still appear on both shows.
Cheryl Cole has reportedly signed a deal worth around £10m to become a judge on the US version of The X Factor.
The Girls Aloud singer has been subject to much speculation over her place on the show, but Simon Cowell is said to have finally persuaded US TV executives to give her a slot on the panel.
“Simon is the boss of this show,” a source told the News of the World. “He gets what he wants and he wants Cheryl. The money you make on American TV is huge, but there’s also a huge risk.
“The way American contracts are gives Fox the chance to opt out if viewers don’t take to her. But Simon won’t let that happen.”
Cole is expected to use the show as a springboard for a music career in America: “As soon as it’s announced she’s going to be a judge the plan will be to launch her music career in the States,” the source added.
“It’s important Americans realise she’s a credible music star if she’s going to be judging other singers.”
Meanwhile, Cowell is now trying to arrange for both Cole and himself to star on the US and UK versions of the singing competition simultaneously.
Cheryl Cole and Simon Cowell leaving X Factor, says Louis Walsh
Cheryl Cole and Simon Cowell will not take part in the next series of The X Factor, fellow judge Louis Walsh has revealed.
Simon is working on a new US version of the show and has long been rumoured to be worried about his workload, despite deciding to sit out the auditions stage of Britain’s Got Talent.
Girls Aloud singer Cheryl is set to join him on The X Factor across the Atlantic and Louis told the News of the World that would mean big changes for ITV1′s version.
‘It will be me and Dannii (Minogue) on the UK show with two more people,’ he explained.
A spokesman for Simon said his future involvement with The X Factor here is ‘still being discussed’.
Should Louis prove to be correct, it would be a major blow to ITV to lose the two biggest and most controversial stars from its most popular show.
Nicole Scherzinger is rumoured to have been lined up to replace Cheryl after impressing during a stint as a guest judge last year, but there is no clear frontrunner to step into Simon’s shoes.
