Nicole Scherzinger had perfect response after she awkwardly caught Conan O'Brien staring at her breasts

Singer Nicole Scherzinger had the perfect response to Conan O'Brien when she noticed the chat show host staring at her breasts on his show.

O'Brien was caught red-handed after he invited Scherzinger on to his show in 2011, when she sat down and attempted to chat about her friendship with Simon Cowell.

Scherzinger had recently joined X-Factor in the UK as a guest judge, replacing fellow singer Cheryl Cole on the panel.

After sitting down next to O'Brien, Scherzinger then launched into a story about how she met America's Got Talent judge Cowell, but before long she had to interrupt herself as she'd noticed O'Brien looking at her chest.

“It’s kind of crazy, what happened is… the way that I met Simon they asked me to be guest judge,”, she said, before trailing off.

Scherzinger then gestured to her breasts as she called out the host, encouraging him to look at her face instead as she said: "Focus, Conan."

Knowing he'd been caught, O'Brien looked down in shame as the crowd began to laugh.

Nicole encouraged O'Brien to look up from her chest. (TBS)

Clearly keen to move on from the awkward moment, Scherzinger attempted to continue her story but was interrupted again by fellow guest Andy Richter, who claimed it was 'unfair' to call out O'Brien.

The host agreed, gesturing to Scherzinger's chest as he said 'I'm sorry!', adding: "You didn't think I was gonna look down there?"

Obviously, Scherzinger shouldn't have had to expect that her body would be stared at when she went on the show to talk about her life, but the star handled the situation well as she laughed off the comment.

She later spoke about the incident in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 2011, recalling: “He asked me a question, I was answering it – but he wasn’t focusing at all. I just had to remind him to focus.

"He went with it well.”

Conan looked down after being called out. (TBS)

Scherzinger was praised for her reaction to the situation, with many viewers sharing their thoughts after the clip was shared online.

"When she said ‘’Focus Conan” she was talking to every man watching this interview as well," one viewer wrote.

"A perfect reaction to an awkward moment," another commented.

Other viewers praised O'Brien for the way he dealt with the situation, with one viewer writing: "I love how he deals with situations like this. Something like this could get really weird really fast."

I'd argue the situation was already pretty weird, but hopefully O'Brien learned his lesson.