The Sun reports that Simon Cowell (pictured) is planning to produce a movie based on the format of X-Factor.
The film is said to feature two aspiring singers attempting to climb the ladder from obscurity to stardom. One of the pair will take part in a televised talent contest, a la the aforementioned and the precendent setting Pop Idol.
Cowell told the paper:
"I'm going to produce a film next year, not a million miles from Pop Idol or X Factor. It will feature two people trying to make a name for themselves in the industry and all the heartache that goes with it. One of the lead roles will be British, the other will be an international name.
"One of the main roles will be available for an ordinary person. We will hold auditions up and down the country to find a talented young actor or actress for the role."
It's not all good news in the X-Factor camp, though, reports The Mirror. Pam Edwards, who auditioned for the show alongside Fiona Griffiths, was admitted to a psychiatric unit with severe depression following Cowell's comparison of her to Vicky Pollard from Little Britain.
Edwards told the paper:
"I felt humiliated. Simon thought he was being funny, but he absolutely destroyed me. I don't know how he sleeps at night."
ON GIANT PILES OF £50 NOTES, we reckon.
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Like really annoying like locking his keys in his car or getting robbed by a prostitute.
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I like Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh is a cunt. He's an insipid leech of a character. At least Simon knows what he is and has a laugh being it.
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God on you crabbers.
Cowell know's the music he produces is fake and plastic pop, yet he doesn't give a shit as he's making silly amounts of money from it, and that i respect- he doesn't take himself too seriously.
Plus, he says what everyone wants to to utter tosspots.
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Anyway, however the singer's performed and whatever they did, the judges would always tell them how wonderful they were and how, with talent like that, a hugely successful career in the music business was virtually assured. A few years later I've never heard anything from any of them.
Simon Cowell may be blunt to the point of cruelty but I'm guessing his method is far less painful in the long run...
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And then.... THEY'LL MAKE A TV SERIES OUT OF THAT TOO! Just like that INXS one!
Oh and the Vicky Pollard remake was right on-the-mark if a liiiiiiiitle cruel but these stupid fucks should know what they're letting themselves in for by now. Bothered.
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If she was aware before hand she was prone to severe depression then, to be honest, auditioning for a show like that probably wasn't the best decision she could have made
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Fiona said: "Cowell wants to take a good look in the mirror at himself because he's not all that at all."
But her views were not shared by Pam, who said: "Oh, I'd still do him though!"
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Last week, there was three girls on. One was a whale, one a chubby kappa slappa and the other a really thin little 18 year old. They were awful, the whale sang whilst they clicked their fingers. Simon Cowell said:
'You look like the before, during and after stages of Weight Watchers.'
He's brilliant. Another one he said:
'If it was out of a million, I'd still give you a one.'
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Bet he was saving that one up for a special occasion. The smug fucker.
He looks a bit like a burns victim in that picture. Or is that just my monitor?
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"Anyway, however the singer's performed and whatever they did, the judges would always tell them how wonderful they were and how, with talent like that, a hugely successful career in the music business was virtually assured. A few years later I've never heard anything from any of them."
Not heard of Joss Stone then?
Just goes to show all reality kareoke contests are evil.
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Still feel my point stands in essence.
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I saw the second of this series (i think) and it was really really scary. This girl who was 19 but looked 30 came on, a fairly big girl in the tightest most desperate dress, and her mum and fiance and sis were with her. Unanimously they agreed she was an amazing singer and this was her future- she practiced everyday etc etc.
So she goes on, singing "i believe i can fly". You wouldn't even know she was singing- she wasn't even terrible, just not very good and unmemorable. Simon simply said "i don't believe you're flying anywhere" or something. Shazza & Popeye agree and she runs out blubbing. Literally the poor girl is having a breakdown at which point Coldplays' fucking "Fix You" starts playing and the credits roll! Then her mum, sis and fiance run in to the audition room and get on their fucking KNEES and start begging like Oliver Twist kids, "please, we'll do anything, let her in, please, this is her life". Shazza is crying and Simon's just in shock.All the while the camera keeps cutting to closeups of the girl breakingdown to the sound of Chris Martin like it's an episode of Hollyoaks!
She was rubbish, and didn't deserve to get in, but i thought the filming was fo harsh- to show a whole family on their knees for Simon Cowell, and the media/pop industry, was just so depressing...they didnt have to show that- a whole families' dignity being ripped up for television/pop culture fame. Really sad, i thought.
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"On a bed of money, with many beautiful girls..."
"Forget I asked."
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And I have no sympathy with people who get insulted, no matter how harsh it is. You know you're letting yourself in for that, or at least you should.
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Oh, for FUCK's sake!!!
It's all about Sharon, though, isn't it? Even though she'd be a shit manager in this day and age.
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