Simon Cowell has revealed a couple once offered to pay him to come to their home and critique them while they had sex.<\/p>\n
The 51-year-old says he was offered the $150,000 indecent proposal while dining at an LA restaurant. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Cowell smiled as he recalled the story, an insisted he declined the offer.<\/p>\n
Of course, the television and music mogul doesn’t exactly need the money – the publication estimates his net worth to be $300 million.<\/p>\n
Still, he is certainly feeling the pressure over the launch of the American version of X Factor. He said: ‘This better bloody work or I am in huge trouble.’ The show, due to start in September, is set to be the most expensive reality show ever, at just under $3.5 million per episode.<\/p>\n
And Cowell also knows his audience will be paying close attention as to whether the show matches up to Idol, which he famously quit to instead bring X Factor to the States.<\/p>\n
Cowell, who said his cheeky jabs started at age four, when he told his mother when she was dressed for a formal event that she looked like a poodle, said he first knew he’d bring ‘X Factor’ to the U.S. in 2009.<\/p>\n
He said that although the UK show was a huge success he was bored by it.
He sat listening to singers file into a Glasgow hotel room, and recalled: ‘I literally stood up and said, ‘I can’t do this any more.”So we got back on a plane. I was in a filthy mood. I thought, this show is boring. I don’t want to do it any more.<\/p>\n
‘Then I got an idea. I wanted to shoot the auditions in an arena, like concerts.’<\/p>\n
Ten days later, Mr Cowell walked out to 5,000 screaming fans at a packed London exhibition centre for the first live X Factor audition.<\/p>\n
‘That’s when it crossed my mind that this show is absolutely coming to America,’ he said.<\/p>\n
He still admits the U.S. show could go either way. Recalling an audition in New Jersey just after Cheryl Cole was fired, he said: ‘It felt like there were 250 people in that room and every one of them was petrified.<\/p>\n
‘I thought to myself, ‘This is either going to work or it’s not, and there’s nothing I can do about it’.’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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