Cheryl Cole glad with beau

Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole is improbably glad with her beau Derek Hough, reveals her "X Factor" colleague Brian Friedman.

Firedman said, "I've been in touch with both Cheryl and Derek since they've been over in Los Angeles. I'm very close with them both. They're amazing people and they make a good couple".

He added, "I thought they would make a nice couple, and I'm so pleased to say they do. They're very, very cute together. Cheryl and Derek both appear improbably glad right now that's all I can say".

Friedman, on Simon Cowell's talent hunt show who is creative director, admitted not having the singer at the boot camp stage of the auditions while she recovered from malaria was "terrible", reports femalefirst.

He said, "It was terrible not having her there for some of the auditions and boot camp. It was strange just having the male judges at boot camp too which we've just finished filming".