Nicole Scherzinger: I want thank-you flowers from One Direction

 
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16 August 2012
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The One Direction boys had better get their skates on, as Nicole Scherzinger has said she is looking forward to receiving flowers from them.

The Pussycat Dolls singer played a role in forming the band during the X Factor auditions in 2010, and says she is still waiting for some thank you flowers.

She said: "It's crazy to see how massive they are. They just performed at the Olympics and it just feels like yesterday we were auditioning them.”

Scherzinger joked: "I haven't received flowers yet. I'm waiting."

The boyband have enjoyed chart success on both sides of the Atlantic and their first album went straight to number one on the billboard chart.

She joined fellow X Factor judges Louis Walsh and Tulisa Contostavlos at the launch of the new series. They posed for pictures in London before the four-month talent search returns to screens on Saturday.

Scherzinger, who was born in Hawaii, said she notices a lot of differences between UK and US singers.

"Typically in the US, we have big diva singers like Mariah, Whitney, like Melanie Amaro who just won (The X Factor USA) last year and in the UK they are a little bit more singer-songwriterly and folkier.

"You've got a lot of wit, a lot of character, a lot of storytelling that they bring to the table when they're performing and when they're writing so it's not so much about the big voices, it's more about the character and the tone of their voices here."

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