BLACK EYED PEAS leader WILL.I.AM offered both FERGIE and PUSSYCAT DOLLS star NICOLE SCHERZINGER a place in his band on the same night. Scherzinger was under contract with girl group Eden's Crush at the time and had to turn down the hip-hop star's offer - but she insists she could have been Fergie. She says, "We had some radio shows together and he (will.i.am) actually met me and Fergie on the same night and he asked me to join the Black Eyed Peas... I wasn't able to."