Last Updated: 24 Oct 2011

US critics prefer Cheryl!

Well, if ever there was a way to get sweet revenge this is it! Last night a preview screening of the new US X Factor (due to air on our screens tonight) was shown to a select group of US critics. And, although the reviews of the actual programme have been mixed, there is one thing they all agree on - they prefer Cheryl Cole to Nicole Scherzinger!

A reviewer for the esteemed New York Times wrote, "The opening episode gives a surprising amount of screen time to Cheryl Cole, a British pop star whom Mr Cowell jettisoned from the panel last spring, in the middle of auditions. In the premiere she just kind of disappears midshow, without much explanation, and suddenly Nicole Scherzinger of Pussycat Dolls is in her chair. It’s a downgrade. Ms Cole showed glimmers of being interesting."

Wow, surely that will be music to Cheryl's ears after she was so humiliatingly, publicly sacked from the show.

A reviewer for The Los Angeles Times had a similar opinion, "Cowell has said he replaced Cole because she seemed 'bewildered,' but on a first impression, she is much more interesting than Scherzinger, if only for her fabulous Geordie accent."

Although we do like Nicole, we're actually quite glad that Cheryl can at least finally hold her head high after that whole fiasco!