Rumours are swirling that Lewis Hamilton will marry “X Factor” judge Nicole Scherzinger, after the Pussycat Doll’s father claimed the pair was engaged. Alfonso Valiente said the Formula One star proposed to the singer, who he has been dating for four years, and she accepted.
He however gave no details of where or when the proposal took place. Confusingly, a spokesman for Hamilton denied the pair was engaged. Valiente, 52, split with Scherzinger’s mother when the singer was six but is said to still be close with his daughter and met Hamilton last summer on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where she was brought up. “My future son-in-law is a really nice guy, really down-to-earth,” he said.
“My family all like him. The good spirit is there. When he walked into the house for the first time he picked up one of the babies. That went down very well. He is sincere and he and my daughter seem genuinely happy together. Lewis is a really good guy. When they came to visit, we hired them a Jeep because he had never driven one before,” he added.
Scherzinger recently replaced Cheryl Cole on the US version of the “X Factor” after the Newcastle-born singer was dumped by producers, reportedly over fears her accent was incomprehensible to American audiences. She met Hamilton, who is seven years her junior, at the European Music Awards in Munich in 2007.
