Nicole Scherzinger Spills on Wild & Spicy ‘Hot Ones’ Episode & Surprise Prince Encounter

Nicole Scherzinger brought Broadway glamour and cheeky charm to ‘Hot Ones,’ delivering a sassy 120-second showdown with Sean Evans, and yes, the heat was real.

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Between sauce-drenched bites, the former Pussycat Doll dropped an unforgettable anecdote about Prince pranking her by hiding in a Vegas bush, she said:

“We’re out by this pool at this hotel. Me and my girlfriends are like, ‘This is awesome! The sun is shining, we get to see Prince tonight in concert — it’s gonna be magical.'” “And me and my friends are talking and then we hear a psst, psst! And we see this bush kind of moving. We hear psst, psst!’ And I’ll be damned, Prince was hiding behind the bush trying to get my attention. I don’t know why!”

The Tony-winning star also opened up about her reinvention post Pussycat Dolls, she revealed:

“I’m a pop star that once had a lot of fame with The Pussycat Dolls and then I don’t have that same fame. I could relate to Norma in working so much from a young age and kind of having that time taken away from you. Like where, time is always slipping away. Where does the time go? And I feel that way too. You wake up and a decade goes by. You wake up. I mean it’s been— Sean. Sean. It’s been 20 years since the Dolls. What?”

Even after a pesky double-dab mishap mid-spice, Scherzinger staged poised and witty, proving she is just as fiery off stage as on.

Watch her interview below: