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Simon Cowell has made an excellent dwelling for himself by providing truthful, trustworthy and at instances 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 Received Expertise.
And generally they’re… ravaging their vital different in entrance of Cowell earlier than later asking for his opinion on their approach and keenness?
Sure, apparently.
Showing on the The way to Fail podcast this week, the previous American Idol decide mentioned folks “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 course 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.”
Cowell thought the couple was kidding round after all. 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 mentioned 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 mentioned of the proposal.
On a extra severe notice, Cowell made headlines months in the past when he broke his silence on Liam Payne’s dying after the One Path alum’s deadly fall off his resort balcony in October.
Following Payne’s surprising passing, Cowell – who helped found the boy band and helped launch their huge profession launched an emotional assertion.
It learn partially:
“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.”
