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Simon Cowell
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Age
54
Birthday
Oct. 7th, 1959
Born in
Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Height
5' 9"
Simon Cowell's Main TV Roles |
Main Movie Roles2003 - Scary Movie 3 |
Simon was born in Brighton, England. His parents' names are Julie Cowell and Eric Cowell. First made a TV appearance on UK's Pop Idol. Then on America's American Idol.
TRIVIA:
- During an auditioning, a female participant told Simon and the other judges that she quit her job at a hair salon so she can pursue her dreams on American Idol; when getting rejected, Simon had asked for the phone and called the owner of the participant workplace where the rejected contestant got her job back.
- Dropped out of school at 16
- In 2007, he earned an estimated $72 million in income from his various projects. $45 million from American Idol, $15 million from Britain's Got Talent and X Factor, and $12 million from his record label.
- He is good friends with 'Emma Noble (I)' (qv).
- Ranked #6 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
- Allergic to lambs' wool. Buys expensive cashmere jumpers.
- He worked as a mail boy at EMI and eventually worked his way to become an A&R representative.
- His father Eric Cowell was a record company executive with EMI. He died at home in 1999 of a massive heart attack on the very day that Simon got his first Number One with a then-unknown band called 'Westlife' (qv) who his dad had predicted would become big.
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