Simon Cowell
- Profession: Music mogul
- Place/Date of Birth: Brighton, 07 October 2020
Simon & The Simpsons - 30/04/03
Simon Cowell is going to be a ’Mr Nasty’ character on The Simpsons.
He will play a nursery school admissions officer who treats toddlers to the same withering putdowns as hapless Pop Idol hopefuls.
Simon has become a huge star in America by being a judge on the American Pop Idol series - he is apparently seen as a ’fun villain’ - like JR Ewing in Dallas.
Does he like Stetsons too I wonder.
What a dummy! - 27/03/03
Madame Tussaud’s are creating a waxwork of Kensington resident Simon Cowell...
The dummy will sport a pair of the Popstars judge’s high trousers and trademark smirk, when it is unveiled this summer.
Cowell is currently filming the second series of American Idol but is due back later this year to launch a search for the ideal woman to star in new ITV dating show Cupid.
Whiffy Walkies! - 03/03/03
Kensington resident Simon Cowell is outraged that his favourite walk with pet poodle ’Prancey’ might end up a bit whiffy.
Simon is fuming over plans that a water company might build a sewage works near his mother’s house in East Sussex, just where he likes to take ’Prancey’ for walkies.
He wrote a letter describing himself as a "temporary resident" and put "As you may or may not be aware, I do have my own television programme (Pop Idol) being shown here and the States and I have very strong connections with both national and local newspapers and if necessary would be prepared to voice my concern to the media over this matter."
We’ll have to wait and see if his strong words had any effect - and in the meantime ’Walkies - Prancey!’
No more Pop Idols for Simon - 25/02/03
The second series of UK Pop Idol will be the last for Kensington resident Simon Cowell.
Simon is currently filming a second series of US Pop Idol in
But is it just Simon that is getting tired or is it the whole nation? If Simon has admitted that he ’doesn’t think he could go through it again’ - what about the rest of us? The current lack of interest in the winners from the latest pop reality show ’Popstars: The Rivals’ gives credence to the idea that maybe we are getting a bit fed up with this formula.
Yet Pop Idol did pull in a greater audience, and winner Will Young and sidekicks Gareth Gates and Darius are carving themselves a credible career - Will even won a Brit award. So maybe one last spin won’t hurt - but make sure it’s the last eh Simon?
Ant and Dec fool Cowell - 10/01/03
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Starting in 1979 with EMI Music Publishing, Cowell (42) got a taste for what the public wanted and it wasn’t long before he decided to take these qualities and put them to use for himself, setting up his own label, Fanfare, along with partner Iain Burton.
By 1989 BMG had offered Simon a position as A&R Consultant. It was a relationship which would prove to be hugely successful, profitable and enduring. Cowell has set-up his own label through BMG, S Records, reflecting the success and vision he has manifested.
Simon’s roster of signing reads like a who’s who of pop success stories over the last decade. Highlights include, Curiosity Killed The Cat, Sonia, and cornering the boy band market, bad boys of pop Five (who disbanded last year) and the global multi-platinum phenomenon, Westlife.
Always pop but never predictable, Simon has enjoyed some of his most successful signings by always keeping an eye firmly on the TV world, sensing a public following and always being the first knocking on the door. The Power Rangers, World Wrestling Federation, Zig & Zag and the Xmas Number 1 smash Teletubbies moved from the small box to the airwaves due to Simon, although, he claims his biggest shock success would come in the form of Robson & Jerome.
Making records and breaking them, in the last 10 years, Cowell has achieved sales of over 25 million albums, over 70 top 30 records and 17 number 1 singles.
Simon is currently a judge on the US version of Pop Idols and is busy looking after Will, Gareth and Sarah Watemore, who he signed to BMG after the show.
December 2007