Simon Cowell, a TV presenter and producer on UK TV, is a regular contributor to popular show projects, series, and evening television impromptu. He is one of the judges on the programs of The X Factor UK, American Idol, Britain's Got Talent. Represents the UK on American projects. Simon’s only inconvenience is the endless flights across the Atlantic.
Character
As a judge on various television shows, Simon Cowell repeatedly proved himself to be an inconsistent and controversial appraiser, but each time he managed to equalize the situation and blame his not-so-convincing judgments on the emotional state of the soul. Colleagues tried not to argue about whether Cowell was right or wrong. He never admitted his mistakes, which means that talking with him from the very beginning was hopeless.
Projects featuring Cowell
In 2014, Simon took on the promotion of One Direction after a “boy band” performed on the popular The X Factor show, created by producer Cowell back in 2004. The record company Syco Music, owned by Simon, has entered into a contract with One Direction. The release of the albums was accompanied by a wide advertising company, as a result of which the discs were sold in million copies, and according to these results, the musicians were able to conclude a profitable contract with Colambia Records in the USA. Simon Cowell and One Direction are still cooperating on mutually beneficial terms.
The next project of the indefatigable producer was the promotion of Paul O'Grady, a talented English comedian. Simon Cowell created a pilot project on ITV called Paul O'Grady Got Talent. Everything was ready for the production of a series of programs, the ITV management agreed to release a whole season, and suddenly the comedian for no reason switched to the rival Channel Four, providing unintelligible explanations. The show was immediately closed, and Simon Cowell began to think feverishly how to better apply the material he had learned.
Having invented nothing for the near future, he decided to act in the interests of the future. He sold his rights to the Got Talent show to the American television channel NBC, which immediately renamed Talent to American Idol. The success of the new show exceeded all expectations, and since the terms of the deal, Cowell reserved a life judge for this project, it turns out that he did not lose the sale of his beloved brainchild, but only won.
The talented producer did not rest on his laurels and took up the next project, which consisted in the promotion of a certain Susan Boyle, an amateur country singer. Her Cowell brought to London from a small Scottish village. In five years, 22 million Susan CDs have been sold. However, there were some incidents. The singer turned out to be a woman with character, almost something about her - she refused to record a new song. Simon had to rewrite the contract, to make the terms of cooperation more stringent. Under the new rules, it was impossible to violate the deadlines; in case of exceeding the allotted time, fairly high fines followed.
Then Simon found the magician-illusionist Terry Feytor, a participant in America’s Got Talent second season, in the American outback and signed a five-year contract with him, which he was supposed to perform in both England and America.
Producer Methods
Producer Cowell has an unmistakable flair for successful projects, he never signs contracts with already held artists, since their popularity can end at any time, and irrevocably. Simon invests only in new, unknown to the general public artists with the prospect of their further growth. This technique has always paid off, income multiplied.
Demi lovato
In addition to working in a recording studio with performers, Cowell regularly sat in the jury on his and American shows. He visited Las Vegas most often, since it was in this city that the American Got Talent was shot. There he met a young American singer Demi Lovato. She was invited by the organizers of the show to participate in the panel of judges. She became the fourth appraiser. Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato worked together for about a year, during this period the impression rating for unexplained reasons increased significantly. Critics attributed this phenomenon to the special atmosphere that hung around the judging table; viewers liked to watch how the fifty-year-old Cowell was courting the 24-year-old Demi between cases.
Personal life
Cowell was born in London Lambeth, and grew up in the town of Elstry, county Hardfordshire. His father, Eric Cowell - an impresario, worked in the musical field. Mother, Julia Brett, a ballerina and high-society lady, was a member of high society. Paternal grandfather Joseph Cowell came from an ancient Jewish family, and Esther Malinsky's grandmother was also Jewish. Maternal grandfather - Scottish blood. The whole family adhered to Catholicism, only Simon's mother was a Christian. However, no religious contradictions were observed in the Cowell house.
Heir Eric
Simon has four brothers and a sister, whose name is June. The brothers are named Nicholas, Tony, John and Michael. Simon Cowell, whose personal life is closely intertwined with numerous relatives, feels very comfortable with his family. He repeatedly invited brothers and sister to participate in their shows, but they prefer not to be on the stage, but in the audience. Simon Cowell and his wife Lauren had a baby quite late, but the father of eight-month-old Eric has already promised publicly that in three years the world will know about another talent that will participate in the Got Talent show.