Cheryl Cole tipped to front new talk show

Cheryl Cole tipped to front new talk show
Cheryl Cole tipped to front new talk show (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Cheryl Cole is being tipped to relaunch her TV career by fronting a chat show later this year, according to the Mirror. The paper reports that the singer's manager will.i.am - who is one of the judges on the forthcoming BBC1 show The Voice - is currently in negotiations with Beeb bosses about the idea. And if the show goes ahead it could see Cheryl chatting to a host of A-list stars - with Rihanna and Justin Bieber among those tipped to appear. "It's all been tremendously exciting after will.i.am pitched this idea and things have been moving at a rate of knots," a source told the paper. "They are looking at a TV show in the summer which would be the ideal vehicle to relaunch Cheryl's TV career." If the show goes ahead it would be Cheryl's first major TV appearance since her time as a judge on The X Factor. She quit the show after landing a job on the panel of the US version of the show, but was replaced by Nicole Scherzinger just four days into the auditions. Cheryl recently ended speculation that she might return to the UK panel by saying on Twitter that the show "was now part of my past".

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.