Cheryl Cole donned a striking outfit slashed to the hip playing a ‘Ninja’ as she crooned track Fight For This Love for her TV special.

Footie hubby ace Ashley Cole, 28, watched and blew kisses as his wife took almost three hours to sing two songs and film the first half of the show.

“There were sequences to re-do and outfits to change. She kept apologising,” the Sun quoted a fan at BBC’’s Wood Lane studio in West London, as saying.

Cheryl, 26, later slipped into an orange dress as she chatted with last year’’s X Factor winner Alexandra Burke.