Simon Cowell, producer, presenter and judge on international show projects

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Simon Cowell, TV presenter and producer on UK TV is a regular participant in popular show projects, multi-part productions and impromptu TV evenings. He is one of the judges on The X Factor UK, American Idol, Britain's Got Talent. Represents the UK on US projects. The only inconvenience in Simon's work is the endless flights across the Atlantic.

Character

As a judge on various TV shows, Simon Cowell has repeatedly shown himself to be an inconsistent and contradictory evaluator, but each time he managed to even out the situation and attribute his not too convincing judgments to the emotional state of the soul. Colleagues tried not to engage in polemics about whether Cowell was right or wrong. He never admitted his mistakes, which means that talking with him from the very beginning was futile.

Projects featuring Cowell

In 2014, Simon took over the promotion of One Direction after the "boy band" performed on the popular showThe X Factor, created by producer Cowell back in 2004. Simon's record company Syco Music signed One Direction to a record deal. The release of the albums was accompanied by a wide advertising campaign, as a result of which the discs were sold in millions of copies, and according to these results, the musicians were able to conclude a lucrative agreement with Columbia Records in the USA. Simon Cowell and One Direction are still working together on mutually beneficial terms.

The tireless producer's next project was the promotion of Paul O'Grady, a talented English comedian. Simon Cowell created a pilot 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 the whole season, and suddenly the comedian himself, for no reason, switched over to the rival channel Channel Four, providing unintelligible explanations. The show was immediately closed, and Simon Cowell began to frantically think about how best to use the accumulated material.

Having thought of nothing for the immediate future, he decided to act in the interests of the future. He sold his rights to the show Got Talent to the American television channel NBC, which immediately renamed Talent to American Idol. The success of the new show exceeded all expectations, and since, under the terms of the deal, Cowell reserved a life-long position as a judge on this project, it turns out that he did not lose by selling his beloved offspring, but only won.

The talented producer did not rest onachieved 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 discs were sold. However, it was not without incidents. The singer turned out to be a woman with a character, almost not according to her - she refused to record a new song. Simon had to rewrite the contract, make the terms of cooperation more stringent. According to the new rules, it was impossible to violate the deadlines, in case of exceeding the allotted time, rather high fines followed.

Next, Simon tracked down the magician-illustrator Terry Feitor, a participant in the second season of America's Got Talent, in the American outback, and signed him to a five-year contract, according to which he was supposed to perform in both England and America.

Producer Methods

Producer Cowell has an unerring flair for successful projects, he never signs contracts with established artists, as their popularity can end at any moment, and irrevocably. Simon invests only in new, unknown to the general public performers with the prospect of their further growth. This technique has always justified itself, incomes have multiplied.

Demi Lovato

In addition to working in the recording studio with performers, Cowell regularly sat on the jury of judges on his own and American shows. He visited Las Vegas most often, since it was in this city that American Got Talent was filmed. There he met the 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 which the show's ratings for inexplicable reasons increased significantly. Critics attributed this phenomenon to the special atmosphere that hovered around the judges' table, the audience liked to watch the fifty-year-old Cowell courting the 24-year-old Demi in between cases.

Private life

Cowell was born in London's Lambeth and grew up in Elstree, Herdfordshire. Father, Eric Cowell - an impresario, worked in the music field. Mother, Julia Brett, a ballerina and high society lady, was well received in high society. Paternal grandfather Joseph Cowell came from an ancient Jewish family, and grandmother Esther Malinsky was also Jewish. Maternal grandfather is of Scottish descent. The whole family adhered to Catholicism, only Simon's mother was a Christian. However, there were no religious conflicts in the Cowell household.

Heir Eric

Simon has four brothers and a sister named 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 his brothers and sister to participate in his shows, but they prefer not to be on the stage, but in the audience seats. Simon Cowell and his wife Lauren had a child quite late, but the father of eight-month-old Ericpromised publicly that in three years the world will know about another talent who will participate in the Got Talent show.