The American music wizard has a history of beefing up the sound of artists on albums for the likes of Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado.

'We instantly became friends,’ he gushed of the Girls Aloud star.

‘We really, really got on well. Cheryl likes hanging out with me in the dressing rooms.’

The serpent-tongued TV titan said of Dannii, rumoured to be at risk of being dropped from her role: ‘She likes to keep more to herself. I think she does a good job, I really do. She kind of got lost a little bit along the way. Dannii works harder than all of us. She’s so obsessive about winning.’

TV censors at Channel 10 have issued Love Game an M rating, disqualifying it from being aired on Video Hits, Australia's longest-running music programme.

In the promo, the singer appears naked apart from strategically placed jewels as she straddles male dancers while singing the lyrics, "I wanna take a ride on your disco stick" and "I want it bad''.

But unless the singer can provide a toned-down version, the song - currently at number 18 in the Australian charts - will not receive any airtime on Video Hits.

Producer Ben Fletcher says, "It's pretty rare we get a pop clip that's sexual to the point there's almost no way we can edit it without destroying the original intent of the video.

"It's not just the lyrics and the visuals; if you were to judge it just upon either of those it might not be so bad. It's the cumulative impact of all those things together." One thing's for sure, Lady Gagas definitly got a different style when it comes to fashion