{"id":430374,"date":"2011-05-25T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/25\/cheryl-coles-accent-too-thick-for-x-factor\/"},"modified":"2011-05-25T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T23:20:00","slug":"cheryl-coles-accent-too-thick-for-x-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/25\/cheryl-coles-accent-too-thick-for-x-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheryl Cole&#8217;s Accent &#8212; Too Thick for &#8216;X-Factor&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Cheryl Cole's Accent -- Too Thick for 'X-Factor'\" description=\" Cheryl Cole was dropped from the judging panel on \" X-Factor \" largely because producers were\u00a0 concerned her English accent would be too difficult\u2026\" tweet=\"Check out Cheryl Cole's Accent -- Too Thick for 'X-Factor' from: @HarveyLevinTMZ\" url=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2011\/05\/25\/x-factor-cheryl-chole-english-accent-fired-dropped-replaced-nicole-scherzinger-paula-abdul-steve-jones-simon-cowell\/\" thumbnail=\"http:\/\/ll-media.tmz.com\/2011\/05\/25\/0525-cheryl-cole-getty-ex-100x100.jpg\" readability=\"45.7077625571\">\n<p>5\/25\/2011 4:20 PM PDT\u00a0by TMZ Staff\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"first\" \/>\n<p><strong>Cheryl Cole<\/strong> was dropped from the judging panel on &#8220;<strong>X-Factor<\/strong>&#8221; largely because producers were\u00a0 concerned her English accent would be too difficult for an American audience to understand &#8230; sources close to the production tell TMZ. .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0525_cheryl_cole_GETTY_EX\" src=\"http:\/\/ll-media.tmz.com\/2011\/05\/25\/0525-cheryl-cole-getty-ex.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were other issues too &#8212; we&#8217;re told Cheryl and fellow judge <strong>Paula Abdul<\/strong> had a &#8220;lack of chemistry&#8221; &#8230; and Cheryl was more expendable.<\/p>\n<p>Producers now want Cheryl to return to the UK version of the show &#8212; but according to sources, Cheryl&#8217;s royally pissed over how this situation was handled &#8230; and may sever ties with &#8220;X-Factor&#8221; entirely.<\/p>\n<p>With Cheryl out, Steve Jones will be the only host on the show &#8212; which debuts in September &#8212; while <strong>Nicole Scherzinger<\/strong> fills the open seat on the judging panel.<\/p>\n<p>Calls to <strong>Simon Cowell<\/strong> still haven&#8217;t been returned.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"continued\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/cheryl-cole\/\">Cheryl Cole<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/paula-abdul\/\">Paula Abdul<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/simon-cowell\/\">Simon Cowell<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/category\/x-factor\/\">X Factor<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2011\/05\/25\/x-factor-cheryl-chole-english-accent-fired-dropped-replaced-nicole-scherzinger-paula-abdul-steve-jones-simon-cowell\/\" title=\"Cheryl Cole's Accent -- Too Thick for 'X-Factor'\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cheryl Cole&#8217;s Accent &#8212; Too Thick for &#8216;X-Factor&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 5\/25\/2011 4:20 PM PDT\u00a0by TMZ Staff\u00a0\u00a0 Cheryl Cole was dropped from the judging panel on &#8221; X-Factor &#8221; largely because producers were\u00a0 concerned her English accent would be too difficult for an American audience to understand &#8230; sources close to the production tell TMZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-430374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cheryl Cole&#039;s Accent - Too Thick for &#039;X-Factor&#039; - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/25\/cheryl-coles-accent-too-thick-for-x-factor\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Cheryl Cole&#039;s Accent - Too Thick for &#039;X-Factor&#039; 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