Nicole Scherzinger would've been 'Goth Spice'

Former Pussycat Doll, Nicole Scherzinger says she would have been called "Goth Spice" if she had been a member of the Spice Girls as she used to be a rock chick and toured as a support act for Foo Fighters with another band.

After leaving the band, Nicole was working as a make-up artist for Lancome in 2001 and later her mother convinced her to audition for 'Popstars' - which she won as part of girl group Eden's Crush - but at the time she didn't want to change her look to become a pop babe.

Speaking in Notion magazine, Nicole recalled: "I was so theatre at the time I was like, 'I am not going to be a Spice Girl'. That is just not me. I mean I'm a Spice Girls fan now, but at the time I only wore black and I was Goth. I would have been Goth Spice. Ethnic Chanting Spice, that's who I thought I was."

The X Factor judge, Nicole still remembers the audition process vividly.

She said: "I'd made my own home music video. I was on it. I gave them my package and I sang [Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You'] for them and the rest is history. That brought me to Los Angeles."

Nicole also revealed she turned down the chance to sing Rihanna and Calvin Harris' hit single 'We Found Love' after vowing to "take a break" from dance music.

She added: "I passed on 'We Found Love'. I got the demo of that song and I was busy at the time. They'd sent me a few dance tracks and I wasn't able to get to them and I was like, 'Oh, there's so much dance and I want to take a break from it.' That was my fault. I slept on it."