However, after failing to get a promotion, he left to try out other jobs before returning to EMI. Cowell took a few menial jobs-including, according to his brother Tony, working as a runner on Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film The Shining-but did not get along well with colleagues and bosses, until his father, who was an executive at EMI Music Publishing, managed to get him a job in the mail room.
He passed English Language and Literature and then attended Windsor Technical College, where he gained another GCE in Sociology. Ĭowell attended Radlett Preparatory School and the private Dover College, as did his brother, but left after taking GCE O levels. He has a younger brother, Nicholas Cowell three half brothers, John, Tony, and Michael Cowell and a half sister, June Cowell. Cowell's mother was from a Christian background. Cowell's father was from a mostly Jewish family (his own mother was born in Poland), though he did not discuss his ancestry with his children. His mother, Julie Brett ( née Josie Dalglish, 1925–2015), was a ballet dancer and socialite, and his father, Eric Selig Phillip Cowell (1918–1999), was an estate agent, property developer, and music industry executive. Simon Phillip Cowell was born on 7 October 1959 in Lambeth, London, and raised in Elstree, Hertfordshire. He has also signed successful boy bands such as Westlife, One Direction, PrettyMuch, and CNCO. Cowell has produced and promoted successful singles and albums for various recording acts whom he has signed and taken under his wing, including Little Mix, James Arthur, Labrinth, Leona Lewis, Fifth Harmony, Il Divo, Olly Murs, Noah Cyrus, Cher Lloyd, Fleur East, and Susan Boyle. He combines activities in both the television and music industries. Ĭowell often makes blunt and controversial comments as a television music and talent show judge, including insults and wisecracks about contestants and their singing abilities. In 2018, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the television category.
At the 2010 British Academy Television Awards, Cowell received the BAFTA Special Award for his "outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry and for his development of new talent". The same year, he received the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him sixth in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". In 20, Time named Cowell one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Cowell is the founder and sole owner of the British entertainment company Syco.Īfter some success in the 1980s and 1990s as a record producer, talent scout and consultant in the UK music industry, Cowell came to public prominence in 2001 as a judge on Pop Idol, a talent television show which he and its creator Simon Fuller successfully pitched to ITV Controller of Entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz.
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He has judged on the British television talent competition series Pop Idol (2001–2003), The X Factor UK (2004–2010, 2014–2018) and Britain's Got Talent (2007–present), and the American television talent competition series American Idol (2002–2010), The X Factor US (2011–2013), and America's Got Talent (2016–present). He is the creator of The X Factor and Got Talent franchises which have been sold around the world. Simon Phillip Cowell ( / ˈ k aʊ əl/ born 7 October 1959) is an English television personality, entrepreneur and record executive.
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