Skip to footer

Nicole Scherzinger: Is she leaving the UK 'X Factor'?

Nicole Scherzinger: Will she leave her job as a judge for the UK version of 'The X Factor'? Nicole Scherzinger has served as a judge on the show since 2012.

|
Joel Ryan/Invision/AP
Nicole Scherzinger attends London auditions for 'The X Factor' in 2013.

Is Nicole Scherzinger leaving the UK version of “The X Factor”?

The UK iteration of “Factor” first aired in 2004 and Scherzinger, the lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls, came aboard as a judge in 2012. But now Scherzinger wants to concentrate more on her music, according to the Press Association.

“Factor” creator Simon Cowell, who served as a judge on the recently canceled US version of the show, recently announced that he’ll be returning to the UK panel for this year’s new season. He had served as a judge on the show from its first season in 2004 to 2010 but then departed to become a judge on the US version, which debuted in 2011.

Singer Cheryl Cole served as a judge on “Factor” from 2008 to 2010 and Cowell recently told BANG Showbiz that she could come back for the upcoming season.

“To be fair to Cheryl, it hasn't been about the money with her,” he said. “It's about whether she wants to do it and whether she can handle the pressure, so I'm not quite sure yet… She had her poker face on.”

“Factor” judge Gary Barlow, who came on the show in 2011 following Cowell’s departure, will not be returning, according to the Press Association. The rest of the judging panel for the 2013 season consisted of manager Louis Walsh and reality star Sharon Osbourne. It is unknown whether Walsh will return.

Fox recently announced that the American version of “Factor” was being canceled after three seasons and many judge shake-ups.

Scherzinger was also a member of the group Eden’s Crush; her group the Pussycat Dolls broke up in 2009. Scherzinger released a solo album, “Killer Love,” in 2011.

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.
editor@csmonitor.com
Subscribe
Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

Subscribe to insightful journalism

QR Code to Nicole Scherzinger: Is she leaving the UK 'X Factor'?
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Culture-Cafe/2014/0213/Nicole-Scherzinger-Is-she-leaving-the-UK-X-Factor
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe