Former Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole is busy with her new boyfriend Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini these days for reasons other than the obvious. She is taking French classes from him, and in return, Cole is teaching him Geordie phrases.

The 30-year-old singer, from Newcastle in North England, has been dating the Frenchman for a month now and made it official at Cannes Film Festival, reported Daily Mirror.
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"My English is better than her French, but I teach her the words. Mainly the bad words! She teaches me the Geordie," Fernandez-Versini said.
The hunk went along to the Britain's Got Talent final recently to watch the beauty perform her new track Crazy Stupid Love and gushed about her backstage.
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"She is amazing. It was good to see her performing. I was proud. Impressed? Yes -- very, very impressed," he added.