Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English reality television judge, entrepreneur, philanthropist, film, record, and television producer. He is most recognized as a judge on the British TV talent competition series Pop Idol, The X Factor, and Britain's Got Talent, and the American TV talent competition shows American Idol, The X Factor, and America's Got Talent. Cowell owns the television production and music publishing house Syco...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth7 October 1959
CityLondon, England
I have very good advice to give to kids this age, which is, you shouldn't listen to your mum or dad and you just have to work it out for yourself. And the reason I've taken the age range down this year, and I never would have done it 10 years ago, is what I've seen with the success of Willow Smith. You don't have to be so cutesy anymore.
If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.
Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.
Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.
Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing.
I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.
I should get a dog. I would get a rescue dog. I like mutts; I don't care. I would probably get a three-legged dog no one else would want.
I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.
Anything I shouldn't laugh at makes me laugh.
I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.
I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand.
I'm obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.
I've always treated the music business as a business.
Britain's got talent, enormous talent; that's very obvious.