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She’s late. Forty-five minutes to be exact and the word ‘diva’ flashes unkindly through my mind.
I am standing in the lobby of one of London’s smartest hotels, gazing hopefully out of the window when, at last, a huge black Rolls Royce pulls up outside.
A diva, of sorts, gets out but bizarrely it’s not Nicole Scherzinger but her X Factor boss Simon Cowell who breezes past me towards the lifts.
Five minutes later a people carrier arrives and Scherzinger steps out looking every inch the star in a figure-hugging black and white dress with Eighties-style, big curly hair.
Having stopped to sign autographs and pose for pictures with fans, she apologises profusely for the delay and we head up in the lift to her room.
‘No way!’ she gasps, when I tell her who has just preceded her.
‘What’s he doing here in my hotel?’ She immediately whips out her iPhone from a dangerously expensive-looking handbag and starts texting Cowell.
‘Simon is both pompous and aloof and a sweet cuddly teddy bear at the same time,’ she grins having read his response. We are now settled on a sofa in her spacious room.
‘I’m the angel on one shoulder,’ she continues, ‘and on the other side is the devil, which is a reflection of himself in the mirror.
‘Seriously though, there’s something about Simon. He is absolutely someone who I would turn to for advice about the music business because in a way he has mentored me.
‘He always jokes that I’m ruthless but if I am I think I’ve learnt that from him. We have a lot in common because I’ve worked really hard to get where I am today and I know that he has too.’
Nicole reveals that she was initially offered a demo to record what we all now know as Rihanna’s “We Found Love.” She decided to pass on it due to the overexposure of dance music at the time. Read below to see what other mega pop hits Nicole also passed on.
Nicole Scherzinger has revealed that she was offered ‘We Found Love’ before Rihanna.
The singer admitted that she was reluctant to record the hit as she had released a lot of dance music, and lost out on the track after deliberating for too long.
“I passed on ‘We Found Love’,” Scherzinger told Notion magazine.”I’ve got the demo of that song and I was busy at the time. They’d sent me a few dance tracks and I wasn’t able to get to them and I was like, ‘Oh there’s so much dance and I want to take a break from it’.”She added: “That was my fault. I slept on it.”
Scherzinger also confessed that she passed on recording Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy’, and that the Pussycat Dolls were once offered Lady GaGa’s debut hit ‘Just Dance’.
While Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Justin Timberlake wowed us during Sunday’s Grammys, one of the buzziest moments of the night wasn’t during the telecast. It was during a commercial break when Herbal Essences relaunched their famous “Yes, yes, yes!” ad campaign with Nicole Scherzinger giving the classic ’90s advertisement a modern spin.
During the awards show, a one-time only exclusive remake of the original commercial, which memorably featured a woman on an airplane going all “When Harry Met Sally” over her shampoo, aired with Scherzinger making a cameo. That served as the kickoff to a new campaign – for the return of the brand’s Smooth & Shine collections – in which the singer does her own modern version of the promo.
Likening the shoot to a ”crazy, off the wall music video” in which “I go in the bathroom and a whole other world is created,” Scherzinger tells omg!, “We took the original to a whole other level. It’s definitely the 2013 version.”
And the 34-year-old beauty is not at all shy about having her “Sally” moment on TV.
“I call it my Herbal Essences hairgasm commercial,” she laughs. “It’s so funny talking to my mom and dad about it: ‘Remember the hairgasm commercial? Yes, yes, yes? I’m so excited for you to see it.’”
And how do her parents feel about her shrieking with pleasure over her “organic” experience?
“They are excited because everybody loved the original commercial,” Scherzinger smiles. “It’s a classic. Everybody knows it. It was fun. It was spicy. It was different. It was memorable. And I got to remake it!”
As for the final product, “I love how it turned out. It’s so reflective of my personality. I love Herbal Essences. I grew up with it. I was born in Hawaii, so I’m nature girl. Then to be able to add the humor and sassiness and sensuality in the commercial is just awesome. It’s the perfect marriage,” says Scherzinger, who is the brand’s global ambassador.
