Cheryl has launched a passionate defence on Twitter of her controversial X Factor performance.

She hit back at the haters on Tuesday by posting an impassioned tweet in defence of her 'raunchy' X Factor comeback performance.

She's had a tough week with a negative reaction to her highly anticipation X Factor performance. 

The singer, 35, is on the judging panel for the dancing series, along with Strictly's Oti Mabuse and Glee star and Broadway performer Matthew Morrisson.

Cheryl, of London, is said to be accused of using an artificial employee bonus scheme which allowed her to pay the lower rate of capital gains tax, instead of income tax and national insurance.

X Factor sources told ALISON BOSHOFF there is no question of a fall-out between Robbie and Simon Cowell - who are close friends since their partners met in Los Angeles.

The singer's waxwork at London's Madame Tussaud's will not be taking centre stage as the figurine had been removed from the attraction and placed in the archives.

Liam Payne has revealed he and Cheryl 'rubbed off on each other in a bad way' and hinted she 'frightened' him during a candid interview about their relationship.

Cheryl cut an incredibly stylish figure when she was pictured leaving a London meeting in the rain on Monday. 

The Fight For This Love hitmaker, 36, who shares two-year-old son Bear with ex Liam Payne, said she feels she is running out of time to find a partner

Renowned golf coach Sean Lynch was arrested at his Brisbane home and faced court charged with five counts of indecent treatment of a child whom he allegedly assaulted six times in 2019.

Jo Cox's sister Kim Leadbeater, from Yorkshire, has given an emotional insight into her suffering following the MP's shocking murder in 2016.

Tom Watson has launched a Labour Remain website and is urging activists to put pressure on Mr Corbyn by signing a declaration stating the party must now 'fight, fight and fight again to keep Britain in the EU'.

Darren Grimes, 25, was fined for declaring that spending by BeLeave was separate form the main Vote Leave campaign. He has raised £90,000 to pay for an appeal and is citing 'errors of fact'.

Sarah Champion, a Labour MP, said today she would now accept a No Deal Brexit as she suggested it may have been a mistake to vote against Theresa May's deal.

Boris Johnson entered Number 10 today as he was watched by controversial Vote Leave architect Dominic Cummings who he has appointed as a top adviser to help get Brexit done.

The new PM stamped his authority on government as he shipped in a host of Brexiteer ministers - after carrying out a brutal cull of Theresa May loyalists.

The former chancellor made an outspoken attack on the Prime Minister's chief adviser Dominic Cummings, accusing him of attempting to force through a no-deal Brexit.

Despite Project Fear predictions of huge job losses, a record 32.81 million people are in employment, up from 31.75 million in June 2016 when the EU referendum was held.

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said today she will be 'personally campaigning for Remain' regardless of whether Labour commits to staying in the EU or not.

LEO MCKINSTRY: The great 19th-century Tory statesman Benjamin Disraeli described his party as 'an organised hypocrisy'. But today that term is better suited to Labour.

In a bombshell intervention deepening Labour's civil war over Europe, the deputy leader will today claim the 2016 vote was too long ago to be valid. Tom Watson will call for a second EU referendum.

Tom Watson today risked an all out Labour civil war as he claimed the 2016 Brexit vote was no longer 'valid' and called for a second referendum to be held before a general election.

Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney (pictured) said the EU referendum was 'probably a mistake' and admitted he did not vote because 'nobody was saying anything sensible enough'.

Labour will give 16 and 17 year-olds the right to vote at a second Brexit referendum, Sir Keir Starmer has suggested as he said eventually the party will campaign to keep the UK in the EU.

Theo Paphitis sparked an angry row with a BBC Question Time audience member last night after he told Brexit voters to 'compromise' and back a second referendum.

ANDREW ROBERTS: The prestige which we have lost as a country needs to be considered in terms of a major national catastrophe, and we need to recognise what has happened and why.

On current trends, Britain's output should be 'a quarter larger than the French economy' by 2034, the Centre for Economics and Business Research's (CEBR) predictions found.

Two Labour leadership hopefuls clashed over Brexit today as Sir Keir Starmer said the row over the UK leaving had been settled but Jess Phillips suggested she could campaign to rejoin the EU.

Nicola Sturgeon has ordered officials to keep the European Union flag flying over the Scottish government headquarters after the UK leaves the bloc on Friday.

Boris Johnson's new Cabinet will meet at 8:30 this morning to start the battle for Brexit just hours after the new Prime Minister made his final appointment.

Official figures released by Eurostat show over 6,000 UK nationals have become Germans and more than 3,000 obtained French passports in the rush to secure future residency in EU states.

Michel Barnier flatly dismissed a call from the new PM for the hated Irish border backstop to be scrapped.

In a letter to European Council president Donald Tusk, Boris Johnson said the backstop was 'anti-democratic and put the Good Friday Agreement at risk.

Alex, 30, revealed that she is pregnant with husband Servando Carrasco, 31 on October 23, and this week she flaunted her bump at a community sports event.

Morgan, 30, has been fighting for equal pay from the U.S. Soccer Federation. She said being pregnant for her daughter has reaffirmed her drive for equal pay.

The former Arsenal manager was recently reported to be a target for the vacant managerial role at Bayern Munich but they have instead put Hans Dieter Flick in charge.

Data from world governing body FIFA's International Transfer Matching System (ITMS) has shown that agents' fees have climbed above the half a billion pound mark for the first time this year.

The man who showed footballers were three-and-a-half times more likely to die from conditions linked to brain or nerve damage has slammed FIFA's rule-makers for failing to act sooner to protect players.

Florentino Perez is said to be putting steps in place to create a new competition that would be comprised of two, 20 team leagues but Sir Alex can't understand why Premier League clubs would want to join it.

FIFA has filed civil claims in Swiss courts against ex-president Sepp Blatter and ex-vice president Michel Platini as it pushes a bid to recover the two million Swiss francs 'unduly' paid to Platini in 2011.

IAN HERBERT: If anyone was oiling the wheels it was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, rebuilding his career after an injury which cost him a place in two Champions League finals and a World Cup.

Alex is seen in workout gear and rubs her bump for the camera in a new video. The 30-year-old said she plans to play in the 2020 Olympics in July and is still training to some degree.

FIFA's chief refereeing commissioner believes the controversial technology should only work like a 'parachute' to correct an error.

EXCLUSIVE: English football's post-Brexit transfer regulations are forcing Premier League clubs to fast-track moves for Europe's best teenagers this summer.

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has called the League Cup 'important' while stressing 'we have to work on a solution' following calls from UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin to scrap it.

With the season possibly extending into July, Sportsmail revealed on Saturday how out-of-contract players are on a collision course with their clubs due to the fact their deals expire on June 30.

EXCLUSIVE BY ANDREW WARSHAW: World football's top medical expert slammed Europe's major leagues for targeting a mid-May resumption of fixtures.

MIKE KEEGAN: The global game's governing body has recognised the current coronavirus crisis as a 'force majeure' - an unforeseen circumstance that prevents a contract from being fulfilled.

Former Arsenal midfielder Alex Song is prepared to lobby FIFA and take legal action against Swiss club Sion after they sacked him for refusing to take a pay cut amid the coronavirus pandemic.