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Simon Cowell must have had enough of being painted as the villain in the ongoing drama about Cheryl Cole's job.The X Factor supremo has reportedly made it known that he was not the axeman - and that he offered to double her pay to a staggering £2.8m if she'd return to the UK version of the show.
The Mirror quoted a source as saying: "It's been a tough week for everyone involved with the series, not just Cheryl. Simon feels he has been made to look like the bad guy in all of this, when all he's done is offer someone a job.
"He moved heaven and earth for that girl - effectively offering to double her salary to take up a role on the UK show. Discussions were ongoing the whole time she was in America but then suddenly she went off-radar and the conversations stopped."
And the source, credited as a producer on the show, also tried to subtly shift the blame for Cheryl losing the US job onto her.
He/she continued: "The truth is Cheryl was never herself on the US show - and it came across on camera. There was nothing anybody could do about it and the reality is the decision to remove Cheryl from the US panel was never Simon's alone.
"He was not the axeman - it was a group decision.
"Obviously he feels responsible for Cheryl and regrets the way some of this has played out. But at the same time, Simon won't be losing sleep over someone who has just rejected a multi-million pound job offer."
So there.
Meanwhile we also heard today that Cheryl has "turned a corner". It was probably to avoid seeing Simon!
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Source: http://celebrity.aol.co.uk/2011/06/02/simon-cowell-cheryl-cole/
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