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CHERYL Cole reckons she will be mentor to the next X Factor winner — after landing her dream category.
The talent show’s newest judge has already told TV Biz she wanted to coach the groups section after seeing their “brilliant” auditions.

And although show chiefs wouldn’t confirm it yesterday, the Girls Aloud beauty, 25, grinned: “I’ve definitely got the category I wanted.”

Cheryl vowed: “I don’t need to win for me. I need one of my acts to win — and I KNOW I’ve got one there.”

The star had previously said: “I really want to get the groups. There have been so many brilliant groups auditioning.”

But a group has never won The X Factor. Last year, show chief Simon Cowell, 48, claimed he would go all the way with brother and sister duo Same Difference — but they ended up third.

But Simon’s girlfriend Terri Seymour has revealed the pop guru thinks Cheryl is the best talent spotter he has ever seen.

Terri said: “Cheryl’s fantastic. Simon told me, ‘She’s the best judge I’ve worked with, she’s a natural. She just gets it’.”

But Cheryl was relieved when filming of the auditions stage was finally over.

She admitted she’d had to be brutally honest with some of the more deluded wannabes, saying: “I don’t think it’s fair to give them false hope.”

The Sun