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Simon Cowell has made an excellent residing for himself by providing truthful, sincere and at occasions harsh critiques of individuals on stage.
Typically they’re singing. Typically they’re dancing. Typically they’re doing actually unusual acts as a part of America’s Acquired Expertise.
And typically they’re… ravaging their important different in entrance of Cowell earlier than later asking for his opinion on their method and fervour?
Simon Cowell attends the “Britains Got Talent SR18” – Press Launch at Sea Containers on February 12, 2025 in London, England. (Picture by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Pictures)
Sure, apparently.
Showing on the Fail podcast this week, the previous American Idol choose stated individuals “used to ask me to be rude to them.”
This tracks as a result of Cowell rose to fame by having no filter in any respect in what he would say to aspiring singers and contestants.
Cowell then went on throughout this podcast interview, taking the subject in a route we did NOT see coming.
“One time, I was in a restaurant and this guy comes up to me and he said, ‘I love your show. Would you take a picture?’ [I say], ‘Sure,’” Cowell defined, revealing the stranger then launched his spouse and requested the fact star if he would “judge [them] having sex.”
Simon Cowell attends “America’s Got Talent” Pink Carpet at Lodge Dena on September 20, 2023. (Picture by Frazer Harrison/Getty Pictures))
Cowell thought the couple was kidding round in fact. However then they supplied to pay him.
“[I said], ‘Well, how much?’ It was actually a lot of money. I thought, ‘Do I? No, I just can’t do it,’” he stated of the moral dilemma earlier than revealing they supplied him a whopping $150,000 to look at them get down within the bed room.
Sure, this actually occurred.
“It was just so bizarre,” Cowell stated of the proposal.
Simon Cowell attends the Britain’s Acquired Expertise 2024 photocall on January 25, 2024. (Picture Credit score: Kate Inexperienced/Getty Pictures)
On a extra severe be aware, Cowell made headlines months in the past when he broke his silence on Liam Payne’s loss of life after the One Route alum’s deadly fall off his resort balcony in October.
It learn partly:
“You never really know how you feel about someone until a moment like this happens. Liam, I am devastated. Heartbroken. And I feel empty. And I want you to know how much love and respect I have for you. Every tear I have shed is a memory of you.”
