Breaking: Cheryl Cole replaced by Nicole Scherzinger on The X Factor!

TMZ reports that Nicole Scherzinger has replaced Cheryl Cole as judge on The X Factor! OMG! IT BEGINS!

What happened???

From TMZ:

Huge shakeup at Simon Cowell's new show "X-Factor" -- TMZ has learned singer Cheryl Cole will no longer be a judge ... and will be replaced by ex-"Pussycat Dolls" member Nicole Scherzinger.

It's unclear why Cheryl is out -- but we're told the replacement happened very recently.

Nicole was originally supposed to co-host the show with Steve Jones when it debuts in September -- but now, she'll be sitting on the judge's panel alongside Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and LA Reid.