Simon Cowell

Television Producer and Founder, Syco Entertainment

Simon Cowell is best known for his caustic attitude on The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent, where he has been hugely successful as the judge everybody loves to hate (or the only judge who tells it like it is, depending on who you ask). He is also the star-maker of such extraordinarily popular artists as current teenybopper favourites One Direction. Others, including Susan Boyle, Leona Lewis and Il Divo have also emerged from his instruction to sell a staggering 160 million albums between them. Cowell started his career in music as a post boy at EMI Music Publishing before he founded his own company, Fanfare Records, in 1985. When Fanfare hit bankruptcy, Cowell had to move back in with his parents due to his debts – a far cry from where he stands now as head of Syco Entertainment and arguably the most powerful TV producer and music executive in the UK.

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