#Simon Cowell Interview

[hollywoodoutbreak]

Simon Cowell, the mastermind behind the enduring summer sensation America's Got Talent, has been a staple in the talent show landscape for years. With 19 seasons under its belt, and Cowell himself judging for eight of them, AGT has provided a platform for countless aspiring performers hoping to achieve their dreams. While Cowell has honed his reputation as a discerning and sometimes acerbic judge on shows like American Idol, The X Factor, and Britain's Got Talent, it seems AGT brings out a different side of him.

On AGT, audiences witness a more nuanced Cowell, one who balances his trademark candor with genuine empathy for the diverse acts that grace the stage. Over the years, Cowell has expressed his fondness for the show's inherent optimism, finding inspiration in the contestants' resilience and determination to overcome challenges.

America's Got Talent airs Tuesday and Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC and streams the next day on Peacock.

[sunshineandlyrics]

THIS reply!

[sweatyfestivaltrash]

This is probably not true but it is funny

[statementlou]

hello :) could you maybe explain a little bit how dan wootton blackmailed louis?

ugh sorry for taking a while to get to this. The problem is I feel like the only two ways to answer this are by spending a week and a half of full time labor sifting through old posts and evidence to get every detail right and lay out an airtight case, or to halfass something very serious, and so I felt a little stuck. So since I can't seem to find a good halfway point, apologies but here is the half assed version, if you want to get into it more I invite you to do your own deep dive or talk to other people, but here's how I remember things. Louis has almost never on video explicitly said things about Larry not being real and/or anything negative about fans and their theories (mostly the opposite), up until the last couple years when he obviously decided to make a major change he didn't talk about Freddie much at all let alone saying he was his kid, honestly not that much about Eleanor even; except for in two major interviews with Dan Wootton, each of which lined up with a serious traumatic Tomlinson family event that they managed to keep out of the tabloids until the very end (Jay's illness and Fizzy's struggles with substance abuse). After the fact of those events a lot of small things that didn't make sense at the time came together to look very much like Louis traded those interviews (and those answers) for having his family's private matters kept private. Story trading of this kind is a publicly known real thing that happens, and there were various clues that suggested he was being leaned on about those stories to lend legitimacy to the idea that it was something that happened in these cases. Given what we know about Dan Wootton and how he operates even before the recent flood of information and even more now, I think it's more than likely that he has been holding the threat of outing Louis (as he has done to many other public figures) over his head for over a decade, and has used his family's tragic struggles to get Louis to dance like a fucking puppet for him and I will REJOICE at his downfall when it comes whether it is now or 20 years from now... because someday it will, he has made too many enemies to stay above it forever

[savebylou]

For new fans this video help me a lot when I was new in the fandom. It's 4 years old but shares a few of the awful things the boys have to deal while they were in the band. One phrase Jasmine said is that One Direction was not a band they were a brand, yes they love each other but the way management sell them was as brand and a very manufactered and control one, contrary of all the lies Simon said recently.

[buddieisgoingcanon25]

thought u should know that ryan guzman interviewed britney spears and simon cowell

I saw that. I wonder why he was the one to interview them…

Weird….

[so-idialed-9]

I just really want to higjlight these previous tags 🤣 from @daggerandrose @swallows-are-for-hope and @fefeyuen

Things that didn’t happen.

Claiming Harry listened to his podcast and rang him to say how happy he was in 1d.

[voxina]

"Simon Cowell tried to pressure us into making a deal at 16."

"Simon [Cowell] brought us into his trailer to get us to sign to Larry [Rudolph], and it was just the weirdest interaction ever. He was creepy and weird. They refused to have our parents in there."

- X Factor US contestants Emblem3 interviewed by Diamond White & Carly Rose.

[full episode here]

[todayisdeadinside]

The Music Industry is FUCKED UP: Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell is a very powerful man who has done a good job of cleaning up his muddy footprints behind him. This post is intended to highlight not only his own pedophilic allegations and habits, but the people he surrounds himself with and publicly supports who are much the same if not worse. Simon Cowell is a man among like-minded company, for all the wrong reasons.

Table of contents:

The "Buffet" - told by Gavin Bain

Max Clifford

David Walliams

Jonathan King

The Buffet - told by Gavin Bain

Back in December 2024, Gavin Bain (former half of the rap/rock duo Silibil 'n Brains) went on The John Cooper Show to talk in-depth about his story "getting one over" on Sony. The original 2 videos (x) (x) that went around were just clips, with the full interview being locked behind a $9.99 Youtube Membership paywall. So, I took one for the team, and paid for 1 month of a membership to watch the whole thing.

Originally, I was going to transcribe the entire interview, but I quickly realized that is not only VERY hard, but very useless. The bits about Simon Cowell were brief and at the very end, the rest of the interview was about Gavin's personal story. I did, however, take notes on everything, so expect a post about Silibil 'n Brains soon, I guess.

Gavin explained how he, when he was still in Silibil 'n Brains, was invited to an industry afterparty that took place in a strip club. He mentioned earlier in the interview how all of these industry parties seemed to take place in strip clubs, for some reason. He ran into this guy who worked for Island Records, a record company Gavin had considered signing to but didn't, and the guy looked shocked to see Gavin there.

Apparently the afterparty was split into 2 sides of the venue, and Gavin, following people he recognized, had accidentally entered the wrong side. He had entered "the buffet." The Island Records guy asked Gavin "Who are you here with?" And Gavin said he was here with his duo-mate, to which Island Records guy said "Here-here? You're- you're gonna go to the buffet?" Gavin, taking that question literally, answered with "Why would I want to eat right now?"

That's when Gavin sees this boy he recognizes from around, a boy he knows is underage because he wasn't allowed to drink (this happened in the UK so the drinking age and age of adulthood are the same). The boy is in a lineup of other teenage girls and boys in very revealing clothing, none of the could have been older than 14-15 according to Gavin. Separate from the teenage lineup is a group of very influential music executives and industry people.

He later runs into the Island Records guy again, who tells him "You're not supposed to be here, you weren't invited. You shouldn't be here."

Later on, after this party, Gavin discovered that this was "Simon and Max's 'thing.'" These underage sex parties were a routine event hosted and organized by Simon Cowell and Max Clifford at "undisclosed strip joints." They'd invite teenagers who wanted to get into the music/entertainment industry, and they'd make them have sex with older execs for career opportunities that often never came.

Years later, Gavin came across the boy he'd recognized, who'd been underage at the time of attending the buffet. The boy, who Gavin didn't name, told him his story. He had been coerced by a Syco employee- a woman in her late 40s at the time- into having sex with her in exchange for career benefits. What ended up happening was this woman kept having sex with this underage boy, and the boy was coerced into signing away all of his image rights to Syco, trapping himself in a cycle of shitty TV appearances and roles he didn't want. He was legally unable to escape Syco at that point.

Direct quote from Gavin- "God knows where all those kids have come from. They're already tied up in pre-development deals, those deals don't just come to anyone." He explained how the boy felt like he needed to keep his sexual relationship with the older Syco employee a secret because he was underage, and he thought he would get in trouble for it. "You're never gonna cause a problem, because you think you've done something wrong."

Gavin and John Cooper also discussed another related incident, but since it isn't Simon Cowell related, I'm saving that for another post.

Max Clifford - Simon Cowell's former manager

Max Clifford was Simon Cowell's manager for over a decade, until around 2012 when he was arrested as a part of Project Yewtree on suspicion of sexual assault, and later found guilty and imprisoned for 8 accounts of such crimes in 2014. He would pass away in prison in 2017. (x) He was, as discussed above, involved in hosting Simon's buffet parties.

The fact that such a deplorable repeat offender was not only one of Simon's closest friends, but his manager of over a decade prior to his conviction, really highlights the web of pedophiles that Simon surrounds himself with. Pedophiles, I've learned, are pack animals. They're always in groups, you rarely find one working alone in the music industry. When one gets caught, they get ousted by the others and people act like their close friends and coworkers aren't likely doing the same thing.

There's a reason people say the music industry is one big sex trafficking ring- it's rife with people like Simon and Max everywhere you turn. And they all protect each other.

David Walliams - BGT & Harry Styles

David Walliams was a judge on Britain’s Got Talent alongside Simon Cowell from 2012-2022. David has faced a slew of controversies, most relevant a comment he made about Harry in 2011, when Harry was only 17 years old.

The comment was “I’d like to suck his cock” and it was broadcasted on Chris Moyles' Quiz Night. David was 40 at the time. The comment being made in 2011 and David being hired for BGT in 2012 means that Cowell chose to hire this man after this controversy, highlighting a concerning lack of care. But what else is new? (x)

Among David’s other controversies was an incident in 2006 where he exposed the genitals of multiple teenagers and simulated sexual acts with them for a comedy sketch. He repeated this sketch for years, with hefty criticism, and yet no official charges were ever pressed. (x)

Jonathan King - Simon paid his bail

Jonathan King is a record producer, singer-songwriter, music entrepreneur, and TV presenter who was convicted of four counts of sexual assault against teenage boys in 2001. His bail was set for £150,000, £50,000 of which was paid for by Simon Cowell. Although Jonathan was only convicted of 4 counts, 27 different men accused him of sexually assaulting them.

After Jonathan got out of prison, he was later arrested again as a part of Operation Ravine and charged in 2017 with 18 counts of sexual offenses, again against teenage boys. He was eventually acquitted of these charges, as a result of police errors and difficulties with a fair trial being carried out. (x) (x)

This guy has been accused of sexual assault by, like, 45 fucking people. Even if he was only convicted of 4, I highly suspect more of them were true and just didn't have enough evidence in court- and we know 18 were thrown out because the cops fucked up the investigation.

Conclusion

Simon Cowell needs to get curb stomped BADLY. He surrounds himself with pedophiles and rapists, and he himself runs pedophilic sex parties on the regular. Nobody cares, though. You won't see this in the news- they're too busy with the Diddy case, exposing more than one pedophile at a time is bad for the industry.

[hollywoodoutbreak]

America’s Got Talent is currently in the midst of its landmark 20th season of discovering performers both strange and amazing (and sometimes both). And if you’re amazed that the show has lasted 20 years, you’re not the only one. Simon Cowell is probably more surprised than anybody. After all, he created the show, and when we’ve spoken to him over the course of the show’s run, he said he considers the show lucky to have gotten on the air in the first place!

America’s Got Talent airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on NBC.

[sunshineandlyrics]

10 June 2024.

Note, Steven Bartlett was (too) kind with Simon and premised the question as Liam having "struggles" and the struggles that come with fame and change. No mention was made about Liam's problems with addiction.

If you want to watch that part of the Steven and Simon interview, just choose the relevant chapter x

[rubyszjuno]

favourite bots!

@cherriesnkisses

you meet his family - 2012

nonsense outro - 2013

teen dad - 2013

you’re simon cowell’s daughter - 2013

fake boyfriend on new years - 2013

“taste” ft kendall - 2013

you’re 1d’s hairstylist - 2014

you’re dating ashton, but harry likes you - 2014

you’ve never seen him drunk - 2015

he pretends to be your boyfriend - 2015

him + your daughter cook dinner - 2015

colouring his tattoos - 2016

he refuses to break up - 2016

lunch with anne - 2022

popular x shy (secretive edition) - au

he can’t accept a breakup - mafia

in sickness and in health - mafia

frat party - uni

he needs a tutor - uni

he lurves your curves - uni

@jlovescherry

“miss possessive”, by tate mcrae - 2013

he comes to your beach house - 2013

another leaked photo - 2013

a girl at the hotel pool - 2013

he calms you down - 2013

his tattoo artist for the butterfly tattoo - 2013

your toxic relationship is sweet tonight - 2013

he’s wearing your sweater - 2016

knight x princess - au

member of duplicity - mafia

he’s stealing a diamond (duplicity) - mafia

he picks you up on his bike - uni

“something, somehow, someday” - uni

@starryh4ze

teen parents - 2012

interviewing him for “this is us” - 2013

the aquarium with your daughter - 2013

vlogger girlfriend - 2013

your daughter calls him ‘daddy’ - 2016

clingy drunk - 2017

he’s a bartender - au

he pretends to be your boyfriend - uni

summer vacation - uni

@flickerava

he’s on tour - 2013

soft spot - 2013

is it casual now? - 2013

stops an interview for you - 2013

going public - 2015

jealousy - 2018

chicken shop date - 2023

save a seat - uni

he brings you tea (enemies to lovers) - uni

@finelinemia

best friends since childhood - 2012

opposite (sabrina carpenter inspired) - 2013

brother’s bestfriend - 2013

party in mallorca - 2013

i can fix him, no really i can - 2015

behind the album - 2016

he tries to intimidate your date - 2019

you kiss infront of your children - 2025

boyfriends bestfriend - uni

[werelivinginadaydream]

i will never understand why a 31/32 year old woman would date a 17 year old boy. yes ik it was a stunt however take the stunt out of it for a second. caroline flack was like 14-15 years older than harry. ik the legal age in england is 17 but still. it’s absolutely disgusting and predatory. the fact she even played into this idea nauseates me. simon cowell is a literal fucking demon. pushing the womanizer cougar lover narrative on harry when he was 16-17 years old is INSANE!! no one protected harry from the predators in this industry. no one stepped in and protected him whatsoever. harry was sexually harassed by interviewers and fans for years, especially when he was in one direction. i hope every single person who preyed on and harmed him never have a peaceful day in their lives. the amount of damage they caused this sweet angel is absolutely gut wrenching. they stole his innocence from him and i’ll never forgive this industry for that. and caroline flack had no backbone and never cared about harry. shame on them.

[queenie-coven]

Jupiter Darakaraka Observations

*mean-queens --> queenie-coven*

Jupiter Darakaraka natives tend to marry people who fit the themes associated with the planet Jupiter. Their partners tend to have religious upbringings, be of a different race/ethnicity/nationality and just generally have a different upbringing than the native themself. Jupiter Darakaraka natives have spouses that fit certain archetypes such as father, pastor, philanthropist, bodyguard, etc. 

Sometimes this manifests in a literal way. For example, Jupiter Darakaraka native Grace Jones married her actual bodyguard Atila Altuanbay. Atila was a Turkish-born Belgian-raised Muslim man who Grace, a Jamaican woman from a Pentecostal family, was attracted to due to his tall, muscular appearance. In 1996, 48 year old Jamaican- born American raised Grace married 21 year old Atila in Rio De Janeiro in a ceremony officiated by a Presbyterian minister. Grace mentions in her biography that Atila took a very active role as a step-father in the life of her son from a previous relationship. The two ended up separating in 2004 after an especially bad argument between the pair where, according to Grace, Atila threatened her with a knife over her interactions with men. After their split Atila lived a quiet life back in Belgium where dedicated his life to social work aimed at improving the lives of underprivileged people in Belgium. 

One thing I have noticed is that despite what many other astrologers have written, Jupiter Darakaraka natives don’t seem to date people older than them. In fact, they seem to date people significantly younger than them. Other than Grace Jones, notable celebrities such as Al Pacino, Shawn Carter and Kevin Costner also follow this pattern.  

Alfredo “Al” Pacino has 4 children with 3 different women. His youngest child was born in 2023 to his former girlfriend film producer Noor Alfalfa who has Kuwaiti ancestry and is 53 years younger than him. His first child is currently 35 and is shared with acting coach Jan Tarrant who reportedly was born in the 1950s making her 10 to 20 years his junior.  

Shawn Carter, more prominently known as Jay-Z, is married to Beyoncé Knowles-Carter who is 11 years his junior. Beyoncé, who on her most recent album has a song called Bodyguard where she likens herself to a lifeguard, Kevlar (a heat-resistant fabric most commonly used in body armor and, specifically, bulletproof vests) and obviously a bodyguard when it comes to the defense of Jay-Z. There is even an interview where 50 Cent mentions having a conversation with Jay-Z in Las Vegas and Beyoncé popping up out of nowhere to confront him about the rap beef he had with Jay-Z at the time. 

Another example is Jupiter Darakaraka native Kevin Costner. He co-starred in the romance thriller ironically titled The Bodyguard with Whitney Houston. He was married twice; His first wife Cindy Costner is a year younger than him and his second wife Christine Baumgartner is 19 years younger than him. 

She looks young enough to be his daughter, yuck.

In general, Jupiter darakaraka natives pursue people who are different from them in age, religion, status, size, race, ethnicity, nationality, etc. 

Example 1: Barbadian Rihanna has a Jupiter Darakaraka and as of 2020 she has been in a relationship with Rakim Mayers, aka A$AP Rocky, from Manhattan, New York. 

Example 2: British-American singer Sinitta is a possible Jupiter Darakaraka native and has dated David Essex, Simon Cowell, Brad Pitt. She was previously married to Andy Willner, the founder of Soma Yoga. All of her confirmed previous partners have been white men while Sinatra herself is a black woman.

Example 3: Jay-Z is married to Beyoncé who identifies as half African-American because of her father and half Louisiana creole because of her mother. Beyoncé grew up in a two-parent household in the suburbs of Houston, Texas while Jay-Z grew up in the Marcy Projects of Brooklyn, New York in a single-parent household.

One thing I have noticed about Jupiter Darakaraka natives themselves is that they tend to have issues with being in serious relationships particularly when it comes to marriage and monogamy.

Al Pacino, has 4 kids by 3 different women but has never been married simply because he does not want to.

Rihanna has 2 kids with A$AP Rocky and has said that she wants more, however she has only married A$AP Rocky in a music video. In real life legally they are not married. 

A major problem with the relationships of Jupiter Darakaraka natives comes from outside of the relationship. Possibly relating to Jupiter’s expansive nature it is actually outsiders that bring problems into the relationships of these natives. The significant others of Jupiter darakaraka natives may feel disrespected through the natives' interactions with other people. Either the Jupiter darakaraka natives are being too friendly with their preferred sex or they end up publicly embarrassing their partner in some way. 

Grace Jones has mentioned in her memoir that the cause of her conflicts with her spouse Atila Altuanbay came from her interactions with other men which Atila felt were inappropriate.

Sinitta has a song called Toyboy where she refers to her lover as a toyboy (and a gigolo which goes to the propensity towards age gap relationships).

Kevin Costner has spent years mentioning Whitney Houston in tv interviews and instagram posts. He gave a teary eyed 17 minute speech at her funeral. He is quoted to have said “[Whitney] was my one true love,” after Whitney’s untimely death in 2012. At this time Kevin was 8 years into his marriage to his second wife Christine. I can only imagine that she was a little bit embarrassed about that. 

Jay-Z’s situation is pretty much public knowledge at this point so I don’t feel the need to bring it up. 

In sum, I feel that Jupiter Darakaraka natives are most likely to have partners completely different from them physically, culturally or in age but Jupiter Darakaraka natives also struggle to manage and maintain their relationships due to their unhealthy desire for complete independence and freedom whilst their partner is not given those same privileges.

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[berrystainedsue]

one direction ask game

what year did you join the fandom

favourite era of any of the members

favourite album

the best album cover

favourite song

favourite memory of one direction

best solo moment of any one direction song

favourite friendship/s

song you have cried to

best style

best show

song you wish you could inject into your veins

song you wish someone would add to their current setlist

song you first fell in love with

underrated song

best 3 song run from any album

who would you call if you needed a tyre changed?

favourite inside joke

favourite tattoo of any member

tattoo roulette, carpool karaoke or dodgeball

favourite cover

least favourite song

if you had the chance to interview any one of them, whats one question you'd ask?

favourite dance move

favourite music video

favourite fan project

zouis?

favourite unreleased song

simon cowell? syco?

best video diary

do you own any merch?

if you could meet one member, who would it be?

best 1D scandal

favourite video diary moment

best x factor performance

best lyric from any song

favourite lyric change

a moment you wish you were there for

who would you call for life advice

best red carpet look