Simon Cowell is turning his U.K. TV talent show The X Factor into an international extravaganza – and he’s picked larger-than-life Las Vegas as the contest’s new home base.  The music mogul realized the potential for a global TV hit after viewers around the world began logging online to watch wannabe singers auditioning for his [...]

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Simon Cowell has thrown himself into charity work with a children’s hospice to make up for not having kids of his own. The American Idol judge has long declared himself "too selfish" to start his own family, but has become patron of Chase children’s hospice in Surrey, England because he loves spending time with the [...]

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The event was extravagant! With a price tag of $1.5 million, and with 400 guest in attendance, Simon Cowell better have thrown a swanky party. Pre-recorded birthday wishes from the likes of the Beckhams and Jennifer Aniston were displayed on giant screens. The venue, a palladian mansion set in 2,500 acres, is a 30-minute drive [...]

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Someone needs to pull the pen from Simon Cowell‘s fingers. While we love it when the crotchety American Idol judge decides to air his dirty laundry in public—that Susan Boyle botch list was a classic—is an absurdly lengthy diatribe really necessary? On the cusp of his 50th birthday next week, Cowell wrote a letter to [...]

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Simon Cowell has broken his silence on the departure of Paula Abdul from American Idol’s judges table, telling Extra, “I miss her, of course I miss her,” and that the chemistry between he, Randy Jackson, and Kara DioGuardi is “different… It’s like comparing a carrot to a banana.” If we had to guess, the threesome [...]

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Jamie Archer blew the audience away and even had Simon Cowell singing along but was it for the right reasons?   See for yourself below: Embedding is disabled: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvBHzaZZO5o

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