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"Simon Cowell took on the persona of Nicole Scherzinger to judge the former Pussycat Doll&amp;#039;s performance on The X Factor USA on Thursday night.  Scherzinger took to the stage during the results show to premiere her new track &amp;#039;Pretty&amp;#039;, which was written by Babyface especially for her to debut on The X Factor stage.  Following her performance, fellow judge Cowell joked that he wanted to judge as if he was Scherzinger because he was sitting in her seat between LA Reid and Paula Abdul.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m sitting in Nicole&amp;#039;s chair so I&amp;#039;m going to critique like Nicole,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I believe in you, you believe in me, you transcend the universe, God is smiling on you, life is a waterfall and you are the ultimate rainbow.&amp;quot; Scherzinger responded: &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s beautiful, I couldn&amp;#039;t have said it any better!&amp;quot; Scherzinger also told Steve Jones that it felt &amp;quot;amazing&amp;quot; to be performing on The X Factor stage, adding that she had &amp;quot;waited for so long&amp;quot; to perform on the show.  Watch Nicole Scherzinger perform &amp;#039;Pretty&amp;#039; and be critiqued by Simon Cowell below:       Scherzinger had previously said that she wasn&amp;#039;t nervous about performing in front of the judges, but admitted she was feeling anxious about performing &amp;#039;Pretty&amp;#039; because she had been working on the track up until the last minute.  &amp;quot;The lyrics are unbelievable and hopefully people can relate to it,&amp;quot; she added. &amp;quot;This is really coming from my heart and soul, so hope you feel it.&amp;quot; Scherzinger, who mentored the Over 30s category on The X Factor this season, will release her album Killer Love in the US next year.  Thursday night&amp;#039;s X Factor results show also featured a performance by Florence + the Machine, who sang the track Spectrum from the album Ceremonials.  The X Factor airs Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8/7c on Fox. &amp;gt; X Factor semi-final results live blog &amp;gt; X Factor poll results: Josh Krajcik rules the semi-finals Watch Florence + the Machine perform below:       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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