Cheryl: Simon Cowell is my 'frenemy'

Cheryl: Simon Cowell is my 'frenemy'
Cheryl: Simon Cowell is my 'frenemy' (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Cheryl Cole has called Simon Cowell her 'frenemy' and said her love life 'doesn't exist'. Speaking about her former X Factor boss after Simon's biography, which revealed he wanted to sleep with Cheryl, was released, she said their relationship had not changed. Asked whether they were friends, she told Radio 1's Chris Moyles: "Yes, we're frenemies... Nothing's changed there." Cheryl said that the pair shared some 'interesting conversations' following her exit from the US X Factor. When Chris said it was 'really weird' that she had been axed after only two auditions, she replied: "Agreed." But she didn't rule out working with Simon again, saying: "I've not thought about it. I haven't had time, I've been recording an album." Cheryl also told the show she was too busy for men. "I'm not interested right now," she said. Recent reports suggested Cheryl was planning to discuss Simon in a new tell-all autobiography. Simon was quoted as saying about Cheryl in Sweet Revenge: The Intimate Life Of Simon Cowell: "I felt like a mouse being played by a beautiful cat. She would drop her eyes and play the soulful victim to get around me. She played me."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.