| Simon Cowell (October 7, 1959) is a British TV host, producer, participant of fashion screen shows and an active personality on TV and in the film industry. He is more popular as one of the judges of the American TV show “American Idol”.
Simon Cowell is also a judge on popular British TV-show “The X-Factor” along with Danni Minogue, Cheryl Cole and Louis Walsh.
Simon Cowell was born on October 7, 1959 in Brighton (East Sussex, England) in a family of a real estate agent and former ballerina. Besides Simon, the family brought up three more children - Simon was the third.
In due course, Simon studied at College Dover (like his brother), however, he could not complete the studies at the institution so he left the college and got a job. At that time the would-be TV hero dreamt of getting into a job.
In the beginning, Simon’s father helped Simon – Simon’s father promoted his son in whatever way he could and supported him in every possible way.
Once, Simon Cowell found himself in one of the musical publishing houses and worked there for some time. After that, Simon decided that the musical industry is where he should be and for the next eight years he collaborated with popular music manager Iain Burton.
In 1984, Cowell and Burton met Pete Waterman – member of the trio Stock Aitken Waterman, which was engaged in the writing and recording of songs in the 1980s. Together, they have done some successful musical projects.
After some more time, Simon regularly appeared on TV – he hosted various TV shows (including American Idol) and soon became extremely popular not only in Britain but also in the United States of America.
In 2001, season 1 of Pop Idol was shown on screens and the next year the audience enjoyed for the first time the show “American Idol”. Then the destiny of Simon Cowell was predetermined – he tasted stupendous success and good luck accompanied him.
In 2004, Simon took part in the talent show “Britain’s Got Talent” (he was a juror). The renowned anchor assessed the performances of all those who wished to demonstrate their own exclusive skills.
In 2006, Cowell started a new TV show called “American Inventor”. A huge number of talented people from the USA took part in the program.
Presently, Simon Cowell is engaged in active creative activity. He participates in charity, renders substantial support to children's organizations and also supports animal rights. |
Music mogul and The King Of Sarcasm, Simon Cowell celebrated his 50th birthday yesterday.
Besides the all usual busy birthday party he threw for himself (which cost over $1.5 million and had artists, bands, and special guests), there were two strange things about this birthday:
First, days before, Cowell wrote and sent himself a public letter congratulating himself with his birthday.
Second, Simon has been gifted with 179 mirrors for his birthday - all ranging in shapes and sizes.
"They came in all shapes and sizes – big ones, small ones, full-length ones, distorting ones to make me look taller, even dental ones so I can look at my teeth," said Cowell.
