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18th July 2015
10:34am BST

The newspaper claims that the former Girls Aloud star responded sharply, saying: “It’s Cheryl or Chezza!”
Rita then said she was “backing away” while Simon Cowell remarked: “Awkward, awkward!”
This year's X Factor panel (image: Twitter).
Last year X Factor warm-up host Ian Royce apologised for making a similar mistake (he called her ‘Cole’ rather than ‘Fernandez-Versini’).
At the time she commented: “It’s not hard to pronounce my name phonetically… It wasn’t hard to say unless you were arrogant and had no common sense.”
Chezza took on ‘Cole’ when she married footballer Ashley Cole. She dropped it last summer when she married Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini.