Nicole Scherzinger’s £500k offer for X Factor

Blue singer ... Nicole Scherzinger impressed in stint on X Factor

NICOLE Scherzinger has been offered £500,000 to take over Kelly Rowland’s job on the X Factor, The Sun can reveal.

 

Bosses will hand the Pussycat Doll a contract this week after she impressed as a stand-in judge at London auditions on Wednesday.
They are hopeful Nicole, 33 — girlfriend of British F1 ace Lewis Hamilton — will sign straight away and join Gary Barlow, Tulisa and Louis Walsh on the panel.
The decision to offer her the job came after head judge Gary backed her.
A show source said: “We are talking to Nicole about taking on the job full time. She is the only person in the frame.
“It’s now down to money and whether she can commit to the show, which takes up most of the rest of the year.
“She has given us positive signs. But no one is counting their chickens after what happened with Dannii Minogue.”
Dannii — still livid over revelations in a biography of Simon Cowell that they had an affair — shocked execs by suddenly pulling out of talks to return.

Reddy for change ... Kelly Rowland

Pals of the Aussie singer say she would have taken the job if show supremo Cowell had rung and asked her himself.
Nicole — who has been a stand-in judge before — was on the US version of the show but was dumped after one season.
However, Cowell is known to still be a big fan.