Nicole Scherzinger defends Ryan Lawrie after fan asks if she’s happy he’s been eliminated from X Factor
X FACTOR judge Nicole Scherzinger has once again come to the defence of Ryan Lawrie, after a fan asked her a question she deemed "not nice".
The viewer called into Xtra Factor after Ryan was voted off in tonight's results show, leaving Nicole with one act, Matt Terry.
The fan asked Nicole: "Right, now Ryan is gone, being honest, are you pleased you can focus all your attention on Matt?"
A frowning Nicole replied: "Please, that's not nice. We just sent him home and I hope he didn't hear that.
"I would have loved it if all three of my acts were still in the competition... What I love more than anything other than singing is mentoring, so I'm sad that Ryan is gone."
Just last week Nicole and her fellow judges were left fuming after a viewer trolled Ryan live on air, calling up Xtra Factor and saying to Louis Walsh: "Last night we saw Ryan perform in a pub for about ten people. Is that going to be the same amount of records he’ll sell if he ever releases an album?”
Louis's jaw dropped and replied: “I think you are being very unfair.”
Nicole piped up: “Excuse me, what did she just say? Why are you even on this show? What sort of question is that? It's not very nice."
Louis continued: "He has a talent, and he's a great, great worker and he keeps bouncing back."