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Since rising to fame in 2002 as a part of the successful girl band Girls Aloud, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has cultivated quite the sexy image for herself, thanks in part to her choice of racy attire.

But the recently reinstalled X Factor judge, 31, is now expressing her distaste for the current crop of scantily-clad singers, blaming the spate of flesh-flashing on the 'men behind the scenes'.

'The music industry is dominated by men behind the scenes. And older men, too,' she told Bryony Gordon of The Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine. 'I mean, sexy and all that is great to an extent, but you shouldn’t have to sexualise yourself to be selling music.'