Music A TikTok Talent Show Changes in how we are consuming media are also accompanied by changes in how media is produced. American Idol’s creator, Simon Fuller, made the first move towards TikTok talent search competitions with new group, The Future X. But as influential as TikTok as become, I don’t know that By Anastasia • Jan 27, 2022 11:35 am
Simon Cowell Celebrity Quarantine Face Panic Yesterday I linked to a story in What Else? about celebrities not being able to keep up with their Botox and other treatments during lockdown. Dr Harold Lancer told Page Six that his celebrity clients are calling him daily, panicked because as this continues, they’re more and more overdue By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 01:15 pm
Gross If this was your dinner companion… Imagine you’re at a gala and a male table companion shows up without a jacket, his shirt unbuttoned literally down to his stomach. It’s obscene. OBSCENE. Vile. Even if it were David Beckham it would be obscene and vile. But it’s especially obscene and vile being that By Lainey • May 09, 2014 12:54 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Picture Him On Top Of You: Simon Cowell edition This is a game I invented to play at parties. I first wrote about it here, when a few of us were covering a celebrity festival allnighter, looking at hot models being groped by gross rich men. Everyone has a line, right? How much money or what connections would it By Lainey • Feb 26, 2014 10:36 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Middle-aged man pants Check out Simon Cowell in London yesterday at an event for The X Factor. It’s the pants. These are what I call middle-aged man pants, for a certain kind of middle-aged man. He’s in his late 40s or 50s. He usually wears them under a blazer with pointed By Lainey • Sep 03, 2013 11:57 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Simon Cowell: seeking immortality Simon Cowell is obsessed with…himself. All those injections, colonics, vitamins, this is a man desperate to stay young, robust, virile…and alive. A couple of years ago it was revealed that he’d signed up for cryonics – freezing his body for the future, when medical advancements might make it By Lainey • Jul 31, 2013 11:32 am
Parent Pimps Chicken Fried Zombie Judge How do you walk away from $15 million? The thing is, it’s not like Britney Spears has never seen $15 million. She should have $15 million several times over by now. The problem is that it’s never enough. Even when she can barely function without pharmaceutical assistance, and By Lainey • May 15, 2012 11:30 am
Britney Spears Britney’s ghost-talker? As you may have heard, Britney Spears is having her fiancé Jason Trawick added to her conservatorship situation. PEOPLE reported that: Trawick will only have shared legal control over Spears's general well being – not her finances, a source tells PEOPLE. In general, a conservator can make decisions over By Lainey • Apr 11, 2012 09:53 am
Dumbass Men love Kanye, Ryan, no Hamm? “Top” lists to me are weird. Some names on the lists I totally, totally understand. Others... ??? Askmen.com has announced its annual Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2011 list. Steve Jobs is #1. Completely. Sure. Seal Team Six is #2. Fine. Then Larry Page and Warren Buffett which, HUH? By Lainey • Oct 18, 2011 12:16 pm
Smutty Surgery Weird stripe, faces that don’t move, hot Brit host This is, so far, what the US version of The X Factor is for me. The judges and the host are featured on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter. First thing I fixated on was that weird blonde stripe that seems to be running up Simon Cowell’s head. Is By Lainey • Aug 24, 2011 09:25 am
Break Ups They dumped Cheryl Look, it’s not like I understood the decision to bring on Cheryl Cole from the UK to be a judge on US X Factor either. If you’ve been reading my column, you’ll know I had a lot of thoughts on this, and most of them were consistent By Lainey • May 26, 2011 02:58 am
Assy Style But why not Porny? Jessica Simpson lived up to my nickname for her last night at the Us Weekly Hot Hollywood Style Issue party in LA. Looks like a fluffer was hired to jerk off her hair. And she was honoured with the “Style Icon” award. Sure. In fairness, this isn’t the worst By Lainey • Apr 27, 2011 09:29 am
Media Manipulation Better find her a boyfriend Simon Cowell has confirmed exclusively to Nikki Finke that Paula Abdul and Cheryl Cole are his choices to fill the remaining two spots on the US version of X Factor launching in the Fall. Both are currently negotiating their contracts. They’ve been trying to make Cheryl Cole happen for By Lainey • Apr 26, 2011 02:54 am
Girly Throw Downs Simon says Sit DOWN There was some stupid rumour circulating earlier this week that Simon Cowell was considering Taylor Momsen to host the US X Factor. When asked about it, Cowell was very clear about Taylor’s chances: "Who? I don't know who that is. Unless there's something someone& By Lainey • Mar 23, 2011 05:57 am
Girly Throw Downs Next time he should race Simon Cowell This is pretty cute. As noted last week, Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise competed in the reasonably priced car on Top Gear. The show aired on the weekend and, as you can see below, it’s great. Both of them are great. But especially Cameron, all personality, she makes him By Lainey • Jul 26, 2010 04:23 am
Style Simon borrows from the GMD The shoes. Simon Cowell was working out some Tom Cruise leather lifts upon arrival at the X Factor auditions in London today. All he wears are ratty t-shirts to show off a rather mediocre chest but he cares enough for a pair of heels so that they won’t think By Lainey • Jun 21, 2010 05:57 am
