Simon Cowell

February, 2007

A candid conversation with American Idol's most hated judge about tone-deaf singers, cultural snobs and what he really thinks of Ryan, Randy and PaulaNasty, surly, bitchy, smarmy, loutish, imperi­ous, vain, vicious, loathsome, arrogant, smug, snide, obnoxious, rude and mean. Those are only some of the adjectives that have been applied to Simon Cowell during his reign as executioner on American Idol, which on Janu­ary 16 begins its sixth season on Fox.Cmoell, 47, is the grandest prime-time villai...