Simon Cowell
✓ Source-basedrisingEnglish television personality, businessman, producer, record executive
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English television personality, record executive, and entrepreneur.
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Cowell alongside Cheryl Cole as judges on The X Factor UK's seventh series on 21 June 2010![One Direction signed to Cowell's record label after being the last contestant eliminated and being mentored by Cowell on The X Factor in the UK in 2010. The group is one of Cowell's international break-out acts.[52][53][54][55]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/One_Direction_at_the_Logies_Awards_2012.jpg/500px-One_Direction_at_the_Logies_Awards_2012.jpg)
One Direction signed to Cowell's record label after being the last contestant eliminated and being mentored by Cowell on The X Factor in the UK in 2010. The group is one of Cowell's international break-out acts.[52][53][54][55]![Fifth Harmony signed to Cowell's record label after being the last contestant eliminated on the American X Factor in 2012 and were mentored by him while becoming another of his successful contestants.[63][64][65]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Fifth_Harmony.jpg/1280px-Fifth_Harmony.jpg)
Fifth Harmony signed to Cowell's record label after being the last contestant eliminated on the American X Factor in 2012 and were mentored by him while becoming another of his successful contestants.[63][64][65]
Britain's Got Talent stage at the London Palladium in the West End in 2019. Cowell's 'X' is on the far left.
Cowell in 2010
Cowell at the National Television Awards held at the Royal Albert Hall, London in November 2006
Cowell in 2014In their own words 7
I changed my diet and I’ve not looked back since. You feel better, you look better.
Quoted in "Meat-loving Simon Cowell reveals he’s gone VEGAN as he turns 60 this year", thesun.co.uk (23 April 2019)
Normally, they want me to be rude to them. People come up to me and sing, and I say "That was great. Thank you." And they're like "Well, aren't you going to be rude to me?" No!
Quoted in interview, Playboy magazine (February 2007)
If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.
Quoted in interview, Playboy magazine (February 2007)
Filmography 33
Scary Movie 3
Scoob!
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
One Direction: This Is Us
One Chance
Far Far Away Idol
The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story
Family Guy Presents: Stewie Kills Lois and Lois Kills Stewie
Pudsey the Dog: The Movie
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
Made in Miami
Julia Scotti: Funny That Way
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
P!NK: Staying True
One Direction: A Year in the Making
Darci Lynne: My Hometown Christmas
Emmerdale: The Dingles Down Under
Stock Aitken Waterman: Legends of Pop
American Idol: The Search For A Superstar
Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 3
Who Shot Simon Cowell?
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
American Idol: The Best of Seasons 1-4
The Kylie Show
American Idol: The Worst of Seasons 1-4
Ant and Dec's 30 Greatest Moments
20 Moments That Rocked Talent Shows
The X Factor Revealed: The Greatest Auditions Ever
Betty Boop135 credits on file
Television 24
The Simpsons
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Family Guy
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Late Show with David Letterman
Saturday Night Live
The Jennifer Hudson Show
The View
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Top Gear
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
America's Got Talent
American Idol
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
X Factor
Loose Women
Punk'd
The X Factor
GMTV
The Celebrity ApprenticeAwards 1
In their orbit 3
Connected to Simon 6
About this person
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English television personality, record executive, and entrepreneur. He has judged on the British television talent competition shows Pop Idol (2001-2003), The X Factor, and Britain's Got Talent (2007-present), as well as the American television talent competition shows American Idol (2002-2010), The X Factor (2011-2013), and America's Got Talent (2016-present). Cowell founded the British entertainment company Syco Entertainment in 2005, as well as its defunct predecessor, Syco Music in 2002.
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