With her single Call My Name out on June 10th, read the inserts below as Cheryl talks to GQ about her thoughts on Simon Cowell, starting a family, her view on Cher Lloyd and her crush on Prince Harry (magazine out May 3rd)
On starting a family:
“I’d love kids…I’m obsessed with babies. Of course I’ve thought about baby names a million times. I like Alfie for a little boy….I know that’s what I was put on the Earth to do – to be a mother.”
On Cher Lloyd:
“I went through hell to get her on that programme. Even with Simon. Everyone says stuff at the beginning of their career that they will learn to regret. It’s disappointing because I fought for her. Maybe I didn’t teach her as well as I thought I had.”
On Simon Cowell:
“What I will say is that business is not a nice area. And you might say that I am a business woman, but I’m not into cut throat business moves. Me leaving the show was nothing to do with my accent. I work with Americans all the time. (As for Simon, when I returned to the UK, I received a message saying) “Hello Cheryl. So now you’ve blown me up in Afghanistan, can we talk” – and we did….I’m not one of those people who holds a grudge about anything and I know exactly what went down.”
On Prince Harry:
“I love Prince Harry – good looking and a bit of a rebel,’ she says…Me and his dad [Prince Charles] are as thick as thieves and I knew Harry before I knew his dad, so we’ve met a few times…I think he’s amazing and I think you can relate to him because he’s made mistakes. He’s cool.”