Gordon in the morning: Quick quiz

Here's a teaser item from the front page of Bizarre this morning. Read the words, and then answer the question: what part has Nicole Scherzinger landed?

Yes, that's right: Nicole Scherzinger is going to play Mary Magdalene out of the bible. In the remake of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Admittedly, the musical does swallow the Gregory The Great line on Mary having been a prostitute, but that was a claim made nearly 600 years after her death and 'getting the part of Mary Magdalene' is hardly the same thing as 'playing a hooker', surely?