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"Simon Cowell has said that Cheryl Cole&amp;#039;s stint as an X Factor judge and the work he did with her set her on the path to wider fame. Cole joined The X Factor in 2008, mentoring winners Alexandra Burke and Joe McElderry in her first two years as a judge. She signed up for The X Factor USA&amp;#039;s first season last year, but was dropped in favour of Nicole Scherzinger while auditions were being filmed.   &amp;gt; Cheryl Cole: &amp;#039;I have never found Simon Cowell creepy&amp;#039; Cowell said in an interview with GQ that he would work with &amp;#039;Call My Name&amp;#039; singer Cole again &amp;quot;in a heartbeat&amp;quot;, continuing: &amp;quot;I always said to her that the door is permanently open, but it is entirely up to her what she wants to do. &amp;quot;To be honest with you, even though we went through that pretty horrible period, I could look Cheryl in the eye and say [that] what I did do for her in those two years really propelled her into a different league.&amp;quot; Cowell added that Cole was &amp;quot;hurt&amp;quot; when she was axed from The X Factor USA, but claimed that they still have a mutual understanding. &amp;quot;We still have that connection. And that&amp;#039;s why we fell out so badly, because when you&amp;#039;re really, really close and you trust someone and you feel that person you trust has let you down - and she did feel that I had let her down - it hurts. &amp;quot;It hurt me that she was upset, and I didn&amp;#039;t want that to happen. It all ended pretty badly, to be honest with you.&amp;quot; Cole recently told BBC Radio 1&amp;#039;s Chris Moyles that &amp;quot;a lot of rubbish&amp;quot; had been written about her friendship with Cowell, describing the pair as &amp;quot;frenemies&amp;quot; and admitting that she had not really given any thought to whether she would work with him again. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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