Is it just us or does Simon Cowell get more and more likable every time he hits the tabloids?
Speaking with the BBC, Cowell said he was “embarrassed” at some of the leaked clauses X Factor contestants agreed to when they signed their lives away to be on the show.
The contract, which is enforceable “anywhere in the world or the solar system” (fails to mention universe, however) also bars contestants from saying anything “unduly negative, critical or derogatory” about the point-blank judge.
Cowell claimed to be unaware of the clause, and admitted that “It sounds ridiculously hypocritical of me to slate most people who come on the show and then to go: ‘And, by the way, you’ve got to be nice about Simon’.”
Hear that? It’s open season!
Anther issue was the touted $1 million record deal, which actually comes to only $150,000 in prize money for the winner.
But Simon said the $1 million breaks down into the several different expenses that go into recording, producing, and selling an album (which includes a music video), so the $150,000 is just a bonus in addition to the rest of the investment.
It ain’t cheap making a record!
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