Andrew Lloyd Webber has claimed that Nicole Scherzinger has pulled out of starring as Grizabella in the Broadway revival of Cats.
Lloyd Webber says Scherzinger has quit the musical so she can instead return to The X Factor UK as a judge alongside Simon Cowell. Scherzinger starred as Grizabella in the recent West End revival of Cats, and was long-rumoured to be reprising her role on Broadway.
Speaking to The Economist, Lloyd Webber said: "A week before we go into rehearsal on Broadway, which luckily I'm not producing, I get the news that she's decided to do X Factor, having agreed to do everything.
"I mean she's crazy but American producers just say, 'Ah well, we'll just get someone else', because she's not actually that well known in America. I'm furious because I really believe she's a really fantastically talented girl and I really went out on a limb to get her into the London Palladium here and it makes me look like an absolute t**t. But never mind, there will be another girl on Broadway and Nicole won't get her Tony Award."
Perhaps she didn't like the silly rapping Tugger
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