Nicole Scherzinger has stage fright

Nicole Scherzinger

Former Pussycat Dolls star Nicole Scherzinger is so shy that she still prays for confidence before she goes onstage.

As a teenager, devout Catholic Nicole, whose grandad is a preacher in Hawaii, would grip her parents’ hands and beg God to calm her crippling stage nerves.

In the Dolls she held pre-gig prayer sessions with the others. Even now, before each solo gig, she clasps her hands skywards and slips into a trance.

“As a teenager, Nicole would be gripped by fear and felt she couldn’t go on stage unless she connected to God,” the Mirror quoted scout Betsy Kronish, who saw Nicole win the Kentucky State Fair’s Coca-Cola Talent Classic contest at the age of 15, as saying.

“She’s a perfectionist. She came to us a shy, shy girl who wouldn’t talk to anyone, but who had a deep yearning to sing. She and her parents are deeply religious – they came to every one of her shows and the three of them would pray in unison before Nicole sang. Religion is a huge part of her family. She tells me she still prays before she goes onstage,” Kronish added. (taheena)

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And she looks great in those tight rubber pants and underwear.

I was hoping to see Nicole Scherzinger in town for Grand Prix weekend, her boyfriend won after all, but I didn’t really leave my mom’s basement too often because there were European tourists everywhere and fanny packs frighten me. Anyhow, this is probably better. Here she is in some tight rubber pants showing off her incredibly hot little ass. Seriously, that thing is spectacular, it should be on a US Postal stamp. I’d lick it.