Cheryl Cole sent "I hate you" text to Cowell over 'X Factor' axe
Published Oct 7 2012, 13:02 BST | By Alison Rowley
Cheryl Cole has talked about her axe from The X Factor USA for the first time.The singer revealed that she was told she had been dropped from the lineup in an impromptu meeting with Simon Cowell during a break in filming.
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In her upcoming autobiography, Cole recalled how the executive producer broke the news and then told her that she could still have a place as chief judge on the UK version of the talent show.
"He didn't even have the guts to phone or send a message warning me what was coming," she said.
"I was furious with Simon for letting it happen like this. I believed we had a good friendship and I couldn't understand why he just hadn't been straight with me."
Cowell drafted in Pussycat Dolls star Nicole Scherzinger - who is a judge on this year's UK series - as Cole's replacement.
The former Girls Aloud star explained that she wrote an expletive-filled text to Cowell after their meeting in which she said: "I hate you. I understand you're a businessman and what I've learned from this is that business means more to you than our friendship."
Cole said that she made up with Cowell around six months later. Cowell has since described the decision to fire Cole as "the worst mistake [he] ever made".
Cole is currently performing across the UK as part of her 'A Million Lights' tour. Her autobiography Cheryl: My Story is released on Thursday (October 11).
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She was outed,because Americans could not understand a word she said...Im in the UK and have a job to understand her Geordie accent
October 8th 2012 at 5:39pm
I don't know why, it's not hard to understand her.
October 9th 2012 at 11:45pm
OMG! How very boring.....
October 8th 2012 at 12:43pm
has she a book to plug
October 8th 2012 at 11:14am
and what does do after all that
she runs back to him cause no1 else wants her
2 faced or what!
October 8th 2012 at 11:00am
Yet Cowell would be prepared to pay her £2m to come back as a judge on the UK show. Not the sign of nobody wanting her. It must just be on here that people dislike her because she always seems to do ok in the charts and when she was on the UK X-Factor she was well liked by the public.
October 8th 2012 at 6:32pm
Again, she hasn't returned to the show, she only helped Gary out as a favor. Also that way the show is going she'd do better to stay away as a judge, the same with Dannii. They're better off without x factor now.
October 9th 2012 at 11:47pm
Why was firing her the worst decision he ever made? The show suffered enough with under-whelming ratings last year without a random unknown British lady on the panel (after Simon predicted 20 million..and it got significantly nowhere near that figure).
October 8th 2012 at 10:04am