Cowell shows talent
DON'T say we didn’t tell you! In January The Insider reported that Simon Cowell was up to something ... something big.
And boy did he deliver this week, when it was announced that he was joining forces with Sir Philip Green, the British retail billionaire, to form a global entertainment company that will create and own television content on both sides of the Atlantic.
Five months ago we told you Cowell was lunching with entertainment industry executives in Hollywood. “He has something particularly interesting up his sleeve. You only go to these guys when you want some serious moolah,” is how we quoted our source on the story.
When we contacted the same source this week he told The Insider that a whole range of options was being discussed by Cowell and his moneymen, which as we know now, includes Sir Philip.
I can reveal that one idea on the drawing board which was hastily discarded was a bid for troubled broadcaster ITV. “It was, and is, deemed to be in such a mess even Cowell doesn’t think he can save it,” says my man in Hollywood Hills.