Rape threat

A TEENAGER has been arrested by police investigating a rape threat against Cheryl Cole, officers said today.

The threat was alleged to have been made in an answer phone message left on The X Factor presenter Dermot O’Leary’s mobile phone last month.

Police said a boy, 17, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, had been arrested and released on bail.

Cole, 26, is believed to have been alerted to the threat.

Security for The X Factor judges was apparently increased in 2008 after a tracking device was put in Simon Cowell’s car.