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

Simon Cowell, TV presenter and producer on TV UK - a constant participant in popular show projects, multi-series productions and evening television impromptu. He is one of the judges on the programs The X Factor UK, American Idol, Britain's Got Talent. Represents the UK on American 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 as an inconsistent and contradictory appraiser, but each time he managed to level the situation and his own not very convincing judgments to write off on the emotional state of the soul. Colleagues tried not to argue about whether Cowell was right or not. He never admitted his mistakes, and therefore, the conversation with him from the very beginning was futile.

Projects involving Cowell

In 2014, Simon took on the promotion of the One Direction band, after the "boy band" performed on the popular show The X Factor, produced by producer Cowell in 2004. The record company Syco Music, owned by Simon, signed a contract with One Direction. The release of the albums was accompanied by a broad advertising company, 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 contract with Colambia Records in the USA. Simon Cowell and One Direction are still cooperating on mutually beneficial terms.

The next project of the indefatigable producer was the promotion of Paul O'Grady, a talented English comedian. Simon Cowell created a pilot project on the ITV channel called Paul O'Grady Got Talent. Everything was ready for the production of a series of broadcasts, the management of ITV agreed to release a whole season, and suddenly the comedian himself for no reason moved to the rival Channel Four channel, providing unintelligible explanations. The show was immediately closed, and Simon Cowell began to think feverishly, how to better apply the material.

He did not think of anything in the near future, but decided to act in the interests of the future. He sold his rights to the Got Talent show to the American television channel NBC, who immediately renamed Talent to American Idol. The success of the new show surpassed all expectations, and because of the terms of the deal, Cowell reserved a lifetime seat for the judge on this project, it turns out he did not lose the sale of his favorite child, but only won.

The talented producer did not rest on his laurels and took up the next project, which was to promote a certain Susan Boyle, an amateur country singer. Cowell brought her to London from a small Scottish village. For five years, sold 22 million drives Susan. However, not without incident. The singer turned out to be a woman with a character, just not on her - she refused to record a new song. Simon had to rewrite the contract, make the terms of cooperation more stringent. Under the new rules, it was impossible to break the deadlines, in case of exceeding the allotted time, there were rather high fines.

Then Simon found in the American outback magician illusionist Terry Feitor, a participant in the second season of America's Got Talent, and signed with him a contract for five years, according to which he was supposed to perform in England and America.

Producer methods

Producer Cowell has an unmistakable flair for successful projects, he never signs contracts with artists who have already taken place, because 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 method always justified itself, incomes multiplied.

Demi Lovato

In addition to working in the recording studio with performers, Cowell regularly sat in the jury of judges on his own and American shows. In Las Vegas, he was often, because it was in this city were filming American Got Talent. There he met a 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 this period the rating of the show for unexplained reasons has grown significantly. Critics attributed this phenomenon to the special atmosphere that was hovering around the judge's table, and the audience liked to watch the 50-year-old Cowell courting between 24-year-old Demi.

Personal life

Cowell was born in London's Lambeth, and grew up in the town of Elstree, in the county of Hardfordshire. Father, Eric Cowell is an impresario, he worked in the music field. Mother, Julia Brett, a ballerina and a lady of high society, was a member of a high society. Grandfather on the paternal line Joseph Cowell came from an ancient Jewish family, and Esther Malinski's grandmother was also Jewish. Grandfather on the maternal line - Scottish blood. The whole family held to Catholicism, only Simon's mother was a Christian. However, there were no contradictions on religious grounds in the Cowell household.

Heir Eric

Simon has four brothers and a sister, who's called June. The brothers bear the names of 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 sisters to participate in their shows, but they prefer not to be on the stage, but on the spectator seats. Simon Cowell and his wife Lauren brought the baby late, but the father of the eight-month-old Erik had already promised that in three years the world would learn about another gift that would participate in the Got Talent show.