Nicole Scherzinger’s Instagram is hacked as post promises to release a ‘sex tape’ of the singer

Singer Nicole Scherzinger, 41, appears to have had her Instagram hacked after an explicit image was posted to her account which promised to release her full sex tape.

The post, shared to the singer’s account, appears to show Nicole’s head Photoshopped on a topless women’s body who is flashing the top of her public line.

The image, which has since been removed from her Instagram account, also had some writing over the nude image which instructed her 3.9million followers to: “Go to my Story > Swipe UP > DOWNLOAD a FREE App > releasing my full SEX Tape at 5,000 Downloads!”

Below the writing there were three emojis, a kiss tongue and water emoji and the caption to the photo read: “I love you all my babies”.

The unknown hacker also posted a series of photos on Nicole’s Instagram story, and saved them to her highlights on her profile.

The stories were advertising a giveaway for Apple watches and instructed followers to swipe up to “claim yours now”.

Nicole’s bio was also changed on her profile, the hacker wrote on the singer’s account: “My SEX TAPE,” with a clickable URL.

The images and changes to Nicole’s profile were taken down within less than an hour and Nicole hasn’t responded to the hacking on her social media profiles.

Despite the images being removed, some of Nicole’s 3.9million followers already liked the photo and took screenshots of the image and took to Twitter to tell others about the hacking.

One follower joked: “Maybe you should go back on x factor if things are this bad x.”

While another said: “Hope @NicoleScherzy will get her Instagram account back as soon as possible.”

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And a third wrote: “@NicoleScherzy you uploading nudes on insta or you been hacked gurl?” [sic]

This comes after Nicole fumed as an intimate video of Nicole with her ex-boyfriend Lewis Hamilton, 34, was leaked online earlier this year.

The footage showed the couple kissing and cuddling in bed was seen more than 600,000 times before it was taken down. Speaking about the leaked video, Nicole told The Sun On Sunday at the time: “It’s been horrible.

“I genuinely don’t understand why someone would do something like this, or why they would leak it. It’s an unbelievably mean thing to do.”

The singer and Formula One racer dated on and off for eight years before splitting for good in 2015.

Nicole is one of many celebrities who have fallen victim to hacking after hundreds of celebrity iCloud passwords were obtained.

Overall, around 500 photos of celebrities, mainly women were posted online and circulated in 2014. Miley Cyrus, Kristen Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton all had intimate photos of themselves posted online.

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At the time, Jennifer described the hacking as “like being gang-banged by the f****g planet”.

She added to the Hollywood Reporter: “When the hacking thing happened, it was so unbelievably violating that you can't even put it into words.”

Actress Emma Watson, 29, hit out at the “lack of empathy” of those viewing the leaked images online. She said on Twitter: “Even worse than seeing women’s privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy.”

This comes after it was rumoured that Nicole will return as a judge on the X Factor along with Louis Walsh, 67, after they were fired last year. Nicole was originally hired for the US version of the show, but later replaced Cheryl on the panel in 2011.

But, she and Louis were dropped from last year’s panel and replaced by Robbie and Vogue Williams, who confirmed they won’t be returning this year.

Other changes to this year's version of reality show include celebrities stepping on the show to perform. Those in talks to compete on the show include Gemma Collins, Amanda Holden, Caroline Flack, Yazmin Oukhellou and John Barrowman.

A source told OK! online in June: “Not a lot of people know that Yaz can sing really well. “She’d be perfect for the show as she already has a massive following thanks to TOWIE.

“Having her on the X Factor would guarantee that young demographic that Simon is after.”

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