{"id":5214,"date":"2011-05-29T18:49:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T17:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=5214"},"modified":"2011-05-29T18:49:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T17:49:56","slug":"simon-cowell-pushed-cheryl-cole-to-do-x-factor-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/5214\/simon-cowell-pushed-cheryl-cole-to-do-x-factor-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell Pushed Cheryl Cole to do X Factor USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Cheryl Cole\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/music\/cheryl\/promisethis03.jpg\" alt=\"Cheryl Cole\" width=\"590\" height=\"321\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nCheryl Cole has reportedly revealed that she never wanted to be a judge on <em>The X Factor<\/em> USA.<\/p>\n<p>The singer, who was axed from the show last week, claimed that Simon Cowell pushed her into the role and that she trusted his advice, the <em>News of the World<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Cole is quoted as saying: &#8220;After what happened in my marriage I made it quite clear I found it impossible to trust another man. But I did trust Simon, I let myself believe he had my best interests at heart. Now he&#8217;s done this to me. I never actually wanted to do the American show, I&#8217;m not a TV star.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had so many reservations. But he pushed me into doing it. He told me I&#8217;d be a star over there. And then he didn&#8217;t even give me a chance to prove myself. I was gone after four days. I&#8217;ve been used. It&#8217;s cruel. I have no idea what I&#8217;m going to do now. My life has been turned upside down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>X Factor<\/em> isn&#8217;t my world. It&#8217;s not the be all or end all of my career, and I have no desire to keep trying to break America. I actually like the fact I&#8217;m not that well-known over there and I can live more of a normal life when I&#8217;m there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She apparently insisted that she had &#8220;good banter&#8221; with the other judges and that she had &#8220;chemistry&#8221; with Paula Abdul.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* largexfactor 336x280, created 11\/25\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7071761240\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cheryl Cole has reportedly revealed that she never wanted to be a judge on The X Factor USA. The singer, who was axed \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/5214\/simon-cowell-pushed-cheryl-cole-to-do-x-factor-usa\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xfactorusa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5218,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions\/5218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}