Simon Cowell’s (unauthorised) biographer Tom Bower has branded Cheryl Cole ‘too thick for America’.
Despite the book being unofficial, former BBC journalist Tom Bower was given close access to Simon, and was even given an Access All Areas pass on last year’s X Factor.
In the book, out now, the ex-hack offers his own opinion was to why Cheryl was cut from The X Factor USA last May.
“I was sitting next to Simon the whole time during The X Factor US last year and I immediately knew that Cheryl Cole wasn’t working,” he explained.
He went on: “I flew with him [Simon] from LA to New York and even before that he’d asked me what I thought about her and I’d said: ‘She’s not working and Steve Jones is even worse.’ He was determined to make it work, but I had my doubts.”
And if that wasn’t enough, he added: “I’d sit with Cheryl at mealtimes and, in my opinion, her real problem is she’s not very intelligent.
“The way she turned up on the first day in LA dressed in those ludicrous clothes [the purple trousers and orange top] like she was going to a Newcastle disco – I knew instantly that she was out of her depth.”
Ouch!
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