Playboy Interview: Simon Cowell

February, 2007

Simon CowellA 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...

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