Simon Cowell is a guy that you either absolutely love, or absolutely hate. I fall into the first camp. I think the guy is a genius and has managed to create a genre of reality TV that has changed the face of the media forever. I read this week that Cowell has another ambitious project – he will create a new lottery style live quiz game called Roulette that will pilot in June. The show will have 17,000 Britons pay £1 for the chance to win their way into the quiz show, with the big prize up for grabs being £1 million! The show will air on the English ITV1 and has to potential to be Cowell’s biggest success yet – and that’s no small feat considering that he is behind shows such as X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent!
Cowell is best known for his no-frills, sometimes insulting, comments to contestants on shows such as X Factor and American Idol. I’ve chosen some of the better ones:
If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.
If you were singing like this two thousand years ago, people would have stoned you.
Zero for effort, zero for style, zero for star quality, and you know what: I’m being generous.
You sound like a cat in a vacuum cleaner – dreadful!
I’m sorry: There’s bad… and then there’s you.
I’ve had more fun in a dentist’s chair. You couldn’t hit a note if your life depended on it.
If you were a horse, after that performance they’d shoot you….
