NICOLE Scherzinger looked destined to end up on the showbiz scrapheap.

The singer and actress spent years in increasingly mundane talent show judging roles.

Then her much-anticipated return to music with The Pussycat Dolls ended in disaster when a row with the group’s manager in 2021 derailed their comeback for good.

But on Sunday night, the sexy US star, 46, cemented a major career U-turn when she was named Best Actress In A Musical at the prestigious Tony Awards, thanks to her powerful turn as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.

Now, Nicole is the toast of Broadway thanks to her critically-acclaimed performance, and is being courted for a string of stage and screen roles — something she could not have dreamed of just a few years ago.

The star, who also won an Olivier Award

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