Cheryl hints at X Factor exit

Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has hinted she may not return to 'The X Factor' next year.

The 31-year-old star has suggested she might not rejoin the judging panel on the TV3 talent show next year, despite only returning to the role after a three year absence earlier this year.

Quizzed on whether she'll feature in the 2015 series, she said: "That's a question Simon [Cowell] would have to ask me himself.

"Then I would have to talk about it because it's been very emotional."

The brunette beauty saw her final act go home last weekend after 17-year-old Lauren Platt lost the sing-off to Italian crooner Andrea Faustini, and she's confessed it's been difficult to say goodbye to her contestants.

According to the Daily Star newspaper, she said: "You get attached, you try not to but we're human at the end of the day, you can't help but feel the emotion, it's tough.

"You've probably seen us shrinking week on week."

Meanwhile, Lauren has revealed Cheryl invited her over to her house last week to prepare her for the semi-finals.

She said previously: "She [Cheryl] is the most incredible, strongest woman I've ever met in my life.

"She's so hands-on - she had me around her house countless times this week preparing for whatever way the show might have gone this weekend.

"We had an Indian take away, we watched 'I'm A Celeb', had a massage..."