She’s going to do really well in America," Simon Cowell gushed of his protege Cheryl Cole ahead of her much-vaunted move to the US X Factor in 2011. (Image: Empics)"He wasn't right not to tell me to my face," she later told Elle magazine, admitting she'd retaliated with an expletive-laden message. "It said, 'f*** you, f*** Fox, f*** the orange and purple outfit, f*** the UK X Factor, f*** you all. "The only way I can describe it is that it wasn't Cheryl sitting in that seat. “Now I can say that Simon was right to get rid of me," she told Elle.

Source: Daily Mirror November 05, 2019 17:54 UTC