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Simon Cowell seems to have confirmed Nicole Scherzinger's departure from The X Factor, after thanking the former Pussycat Doll "for everything" on Twitter.

The music mogul, who is set to return as a judge on the UK X Factor, tweeted: "Nicole will always be a part of the X Factor family. Now signed to Sony as an artist. Thank you Nicole for everything."

As we prepare to come to terms with another star replacing Scherzinger and the lack of chat about balls in her absence, we reminisce over her best bits below:

Them balls need growing...


When Nicole Scherzinger selected Jahmene Douglas as one of her three finalists, she firmly instructed him to grow some balls...

Baby found his balls!


"Baby, you found them!" Nicole Sherzinger exclaimed, barely containing her excitement at Jahmene finally locating his balls and giving a strong performance during the live final.

Arguably the world's biggest balls


Not only did Jahmene grow those balls, but suddenly he had the biggest balls of anyone Nicole Scherzinger knew....

Creeping balls?

Suddenly Nicole Scherzinger was speaking of "balls creeping up" towards her following finalist Luke Friend's performance. We haven't got a clue. We just hope they weren't Louis's.

Alluding to balls


"He has a passion in his pants and he ain't afraid to show it!" Luckily she wasn't talking about Louis Walsh. Mind you, she was referring to James Arthur...

James Arthur's big hairy balls


And it wasn't long until she was singing about vaginas and James Arthur's "big old hairy balls"...

And the best balls of all...

Nicole Scherzinger cleverly combines "shazam" with "amazing" to make "Shamazeballs!" along with other variations such as "Jahmazing" and "Shamazing".

Nicole hits Brentwood


We're not sure if she was persuaded into a Vajazzle (it looks as though she's about to watch Rylan have one), but Nicole still thoroughly enjoyed a day out in Essex at Amy Childs's salon.

Go Rylan!


No one could knock Nicole's passion for her finalists. When she wasn't making up words for them, she was clambering up on the desks with her fist in the air to show her support...

No, baby, no...


You know you're in the wrong when Nicole stands up and slowly says, 'No, baby, no' while shaking her head from side to side, which auditonee Zoe Alexander was subjected to after having a meltdown on stage.

Giving up the day job


The star had no qualms about donning an Asda uniform and performing the supermarket's trademark bum slap and kick jump for Jahmene Douglas.

Greggs' tasty sausage


And she wasn't afraid to put on a hairnet and tuck into a sausage roll in Greggs with former finalist Hannah Barrett.

Cornflake boy


Nicole couldn't have summed up Chris Maloney better when she told him: "I'm a Coco Pops girl drowning in full fat milk, and you're giving me vanilla skimmed milk on top of a cornflake, a single cornflake." No-one likes skimmed milk.

Gary so horny


We know it was Halloween but we don't know what Nicole's got on her head. And we've never before seen so much crimped hair. But things got really scary when she told Gary Barlow that he was a little devil and so horny before launching into her own rendition of 'I'm Horny' for the Take That star.

The grand finale


But was she trying to upstage Sam Bailey a tiny bit?


At least she didn't snatch the mike...

Non-drunk disco diva


Nicole Scherzinger was not inebriated as rumoured following her enthusiastic judging during a show last November, she was just getting into the disco spirit.

That dress


And who could forget Nicole's sheer and sparkly Julien Macdonald gown which she wore on the final before Sam Bailey was crowned the winner?