Former Pop Idol winner, Michelle McManus has said that she wasn’t offended when she realised that Peter Kay’s Geraldine McQueen was based on her.

On the Channel 4 parody, Britain’s Got The Pop Factor…. McQueen, wore similar outfits to Michelle, sported an almost identical hairstyle and ‘The Winner’s Song’ single cover was eerily similar to the cover of Michelle’s debut album The Meaning Of Love.

Speaking to the Daily Record, McManus admitted: “Peter looks identical to me. He’s a big guy. I’m a big girl. Put a wig on him and he really did look like me on Pop Idol. Just look at the album cover.

“And on Britain’s Got The Pop Factor, he dressed very similar to the way I dressed on Pop Idol. But I absolutely adored that show. I didn’t get upset at it at all. I loved it.”

She added: “He wasn’t being nasty. I thought it was very funny.”

Simon Cowell is rumoured to have fallen out with pal, Pete Waterman after he took the mickey out of talent show judges on Peter Kay’s new Channel 4 comedy.

Pete told The Sun: “Simon isn’t returning my phone calls. He’s one of my best mates but has fallen out with me. He hasn’t got a sense of humour.”

Pete recently rang Simon to gloat about the Channel 4 show’s success.

He said: “I rang him so he could say, ‘Your comedy acting is genius, Pete’. But it seems he doesn’t think it’s at all funny.”

Peter Kay has beaten former X Factor winner, Leon Jackson, in the battle for number one single this week, with his spoof reality TV show song, )’The Winners Song.’

Kay’s single was co-written by himself and Gary Barlow and was featured in last weeks satire, Britain’s got the Pop Factor, which played on talent shows such as The X Factor and Pop Idol.

Kay charted at number two with Leon coming in at the number three spot. Pink beat both with her track, ‘So What.’

Geraldine sent a message of consolation to Jackson.

She said: “Leon is a lovely wee boy, he’s a Scottish Michael Buble. There’s enough room for everybody.

“I never knew he had a song because I’ve been in hospital all week – he’s not number one though is he? Isn’t it Pink? I love Pink, although I wouldn’t like to get on the wrong side of her.”