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To think that Simon Cowell is actually a bit of a tosser?

110 replies

JudgeyHotPants · 28/03/2015 13:31

Just that really. I used to really like him, but over the past few years I've really started going off him. I think he's an epic megalomaniac who doesn't treat people very well, when he gets bored of them or they stop making him money he tosses them onto the scrap heap.

He also looked completely ridiculous at the Brit awards when he got up to accept an award on behalf of One Direction. Like some old relic from days gone by.

Oh and why do you never read negative stories about him in the press? He apparently gets another mans wife pregnant and we're supposed to congratulate him for it? Can you imagine if the boot was on the other foot?

I just him really obnoxious now.

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Costacoffeeplease · 28/03/2015 13:33

The only U bit is that you only feel like that nowSmile

finnbarrcar · 28/03/2015 13:34

I met him about 10 years ago. I was working in the venue that was hosting the X Factor auditions. He's as camp as a row of tents and very, very bitchy. His whole life is a stage-managed farce, really weird guy.

itsnotmeitsyou1 · 28/03/2015 13:36

Do I think that a man who knocked up his friend's partner and now likes to parade his 'happy family' around as if it was some magical romance, is a tosser?

Never liked the man, he has no charisma on TV, a grating voice and the Xfactor and BTG went stale a LONG time ago. Would be quite happy if the man dropped out of existence.

TheCowThatLaughs · 28/03/2015 13:38

It's not really news is it

WorraLiberty · 28/03/2015 13:39

When you used to really like him, can you remember what it was that you really liked?

I've always thought he comes across as a bit of a tosser but I used to find him entertaining, for about the first 2 years of X Factor.

After that, the smarm and the 'shock value' of his comments wore off and just became totally samey.

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 28/03/2015 13:43

I've always regarded him as a smug, vain, mooby twat.

FirstWeTakeManhattan · 28/03/2015 13:43

I have looong doubted SC's self-proclaimed status as an Alpha Male. I'm firmly of the opinion that he hides his real 'lifestyle choice' behind the very public wives-and-girlfriends-on-a-yacht thing.

Mainly, I think he's a right weirdo.

AnyFucker · 28/03/2015 13:44

You only just noticed this ? Confused

JudgeyHotPants · 28/03/2015 13:46

When he first appeared on television as a judge he was so refreshingly different to anyone I'd ever seen before, I suppose I liked his honestly back then, but as times gone on he's become a charicature of himself. Now I find him quire nasty and unpleasant.

I think ITV have become way to over reliant on him. Time for them to start looking for fresh new formats instead of kidding themslevs that the X Factor and BGT still have any life left in them. Both passed their sell by dates years ago.

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StillStayingClassySanDiego · 28/03/2015 13:46

His former publicist was Max Clifford, for that alone he's a tit.

Boofy27 · 28/03/2015 13:47

Yes, your use of of qualifier 'a bit' is totally unreasonable.

TheWitTank · 28/03/2015 13:50

SC makes me nauseous. There's literally nothing attractive or likeable about him at all. Not one thing. Vain, self important, egotistical, smug old letch.

JudgeyHotPants · 28/03/2015 13:52

Yes, the harem of ex girlfriends is very, very odd. They all look the same as well. Like clones of each other.

You have to wonder why he likes to keep his ex's so close don't you?

Don't get me started on Sinitta. Were it not for Cowell, this washed up one hit wonder B list popstar would be all but forgotten now. Why does she have such a hold over him?

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TheCrowFromBelow · 28/03/2015 13:56

I've never been a fan. He sets people up for a fall, then drops them.

all in all, like MC, a nasty piece of work. Hope that their time has come & gone.

borisgudanov · 28/03/2015 13:59

YABU. He is not a bit of a tosser. He is a massive, ginourmous huge great stoater of a tosser.

TheWitTank · 28/03/2015 14:00

Agree the Sinitta relationship is really peculiar. She seems obsessed with him, he seems to like her dangling in the background to pump up his huge ego when required. Yack.

JudgeyHotPants · 28/03/2015 14:07

I know the most obvious explanation for the harem is that he's gay, but does anyone really care these days? I think there's something not right but I genuinely don't know what?

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NotDavidTennant · 28/03/2015 14:12

"Agree the Sinitta relationship is really peculiar. She seems obsessed with him, he seems to like her dangling in the background to pump up his huge ego when required. Yack."

She must know about all the skeleton's in his closet. That's the only rational explanation for their continued relationship.

Ditto Louis Walsh.

areyoubeingserviced · 28/03/2015 14:20

I also used to like his honesty, but I agree that he is now a tosser.
Sinitta is a strange lady, who is obviously in love with him.
I wonder what info Max Clifford has on Simon Cowell

PuttingouthefirewithGasoline · 28/03/2015 14:36

The only U bit is that you only feel like that now Grin and YY

CitronVert · 28/03/2015 14:45

Apart from all of the above reasons I'm irrationally irked by the stupidly long jeans he wears to hide his built up shoes.

SqueezyCheeseWeasel · 28/03/2015 14:49

Add message | Report | Message poster StillStayingClassySanDiego Sat 28-Mar-15 13:43:00
I've always regarded him as a smug, vain, mooby twat.

Grin
SqueezyCheeseWeasel · 28/03/2015 14:49

Feck, my bold didn't work Angry

JudgeyHotPants · 28/03/2015 15:03

"Mooby twat" is a great description!

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squoosh · 28/03/2015 15:10

I find his jeans very distressing, they're always about 6 inches too long. It's about time he faced up to facts. He's got a tall man's head on a very short man's body.

Like Lord Farquaad from Shrek.