Pussycat Dolls star Nicole Scherzinger was left shaken by her early meetings with The X Factor bosses in America - because they made her feel like a performing monkey.

A former Invercargill freezing worker who became a reality TV star in the United States has opened a Kiwi-concept restaurant in New York.

The plus-size finalist on New Zealand's Next Top Model has her skinny counterparts on the run.

As a new series of New Zealand's Next Top Model gets underway, Dionne Christian catches up with four Kiwi reality TV winners about how the shows have changed their lives. She finds that, for some, winning isn't everything.

A former Australian Idol judge has been found dead in an apartment in eastern Sydney.

Nicole Scherzinger thinks she is "better served as a judge" on the US X Factor.

Celebrity chef Simon Gault hopes the third edition of MasterChef will be "bigger and better" than the first.

With a new cookbook out, one half of Two Fat Ladies, Clarissa Dickson Wright, is happy.

Cheryl Cole was annoyed Simon Cowell didn't have the "guts" to tell her she had been sacked from the US X Factor.

New Zealand's Next Top Model is going "plus-size" - meaning almost as big as a normal, healthy Kiwi woman.

Nadia Lim is about to face an even tougher test when she begins work in the white-hot intensity of a fine-dining restaurant.

A year on from her MasterChef final Kelly Young has her own TV cooking show and a master plan for the future. By Kerri Jackson.

After 12 episodes we're down to the best of the best - Jax and Nadia.

The finalists dished the dirt on eliminated contestants, but are full of praise for each other.

Nicole Scherzinger has been confirmed as the host of the US version of The X Factor.