Pussycat Dolls front-woman and soon to be starring in the Hollywood Bowl rock  musical Rent, Nicole Scherzinger landed on the cover of Maxim‘s July issue. Talk about summer hotness. The pics are more than sexy, but with a gal like Nicole what can you expect? She looks hot even if she would be gardening or feeding the chickens.

And to satisfy the readers of the magazine, she also let herself be interviewed. If you are interested in more than the photos, check it out here.

She may be hot but her love life is not smooth. Her latest conquest is Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton, with whom she had an on/off relationship. Who knows, maybe his other girlfriend wasn’t as hot like her, or she simply wasn’t pushing all his Buttons