Cheryl Cole Fight for This Love

X FACTOR winner Alexandra Burke has said her former mentor Cheryl Cole deserves to knock her own single off the top spot this week. The winner of last year's ITV contest is set to see her single Bad Boys replaced by Cheryl's solo debut Fight For This Love for number one on Sunday. Alexandra's single was the fastest-selling single of the year so far but Cheryl seems likely to break that record. Alexandra said: "Her performance on The X Factor was absolutely outstanding and I think she deserves it. I wish her every success. She just proves the point that if you've been in a group and you want to leave a group and you have time off, you can still be successful."

Cheryl Cole is also in for a treat from hubby Ashley if she gets to No 1 this week
with her single Fight for This Love - a ticket to see his film. Cheryl is now favourite to bag this weekend's top spot in the singles chart with her first solo song Fight For This Love and footballer Ashley says he plans to take her out to celebrate the success. He said: "We haven't made any plans yet but maybe I'll take her out to the cinema to watch my film." Ashley was speaking on the red carpet as producer of new Brit gangster flick Dead Man Running.

On a less happy note Cheryl Cole has been slapped with accusations claiming her debut solo single is lifted from an old Top 10 hit and some Pop fans have blasted the singer, claiming her first solo track is an obvious copy of Lil Star by US singer Kelis, which reached No3 in 2007.

The 26-year-old star has denied that the melody is stolen and claims there are no similarities as her single seemed ready to top the charts. Oter Mmusic critics have been more scathing, one said: Cheryl would never have made it into the live final of The X Factor , for which she is a judge - which is pretty rich, considering.'


When asked by Attitude magazine what was the best moment of the last decade Cheryl said: "When we won a Brit Award. We'd been together nearly seven years before we won a Brit and doing Wembley Stadium was amazing. We never thought we could get this far. We could only have dreamt it."