An amazing Grace wows the judges

Scherzy in dating dig at Cheryl

NICOLE Scherzinger appeared to launch a thinly veiled jibe at Cheryl Tweedy — by saying she would “never” date an X Factor contestant.

Nicole and 34-year-old Cheryl — who is dating One Direction star Liam Payne, 24 — fell out when Nicole replaced the Girls Aloud star on the US X Factor in 2011.

Asked if she could ever go out with a contestant, Nicole, 39, said: “No, there is nothing romantic. When I am in work mode I am in work mode.” RELATIONSHIP Liam and Cheryl INSPIRING Grace Davies WAREHOUSE worker Grace Davies steals the show on tonight’s opening X Factor episode – with her own song about her struggle singing in working men’s clubs.

Blackburn singer Grace, who had released her own self-funded EP and had minor success in the past, has struggled to make a major breakthrough.

The 20-year-old said: “I’ve been gigging since I was 16, singing at birthdays and doing weddings, it is all I have ever really wanted to do.”

Her emotional audition, singing the song in public for the first time, leaves Nicole and Sharon in tears, with Simon saying it is “a beautiful, beautiful song”.

Sharon told the Daily