Overlook judging “America’s Got Talent.”
Simon Cowell as soon as received provided $150K to guage a random couple having intercourse — however the outspoken TV character turned it down.
Cowell, 65, reminisced in regards to the weird ordeal on Wednesday’s episode of the “How to Fail” podcast whereas addressing different odd presents he’s been introduced with through the years.
“People used to ask me to be rude to them,” the competitors decide mentioned, admitting he’d shut these requests down — however his refusals didn’t cease there.
“Then, one time, I was in a restaurant and this guy comes up to me and he said, ‘I love your show. Would you take a picture?’ [I say], ‘Sure,’” Cowell defined, revealing the stranger then launched his spouse and requested the “American Idol” alum if he’d “judge [them] having sex.”
He thought the couple was joking, however he shortly discovered they had been critical.
“I’m, like, ‘Are you winding me up?’ They went, ‘No, we’ll pay you,’” the star recalled.
Cowell confessed that he marinated on the thought, particularly when the couple instructed him how a lot they had been keen to pay.
“[I said], ‘Well, how much?’ It was actually a lot of money. I thought, ‘Do I? No, I just can’t do it,’” he mentioned of the ethical dilemma earlier than revealing they provided him a whopping $150K to look at them get down within the bed room.
“It was just so bizarre,” he shared of their proposal.
Cowell defined that regardless of his imply TV persona, he really enjoys random dialog with strangers — however solely generally.
“That’s something I really have enjoyed, though, weirdly. I am very shy, like, I can’t go to a pre-party. It’s my worst thing in the world, making small talk with someone I don’t know. If we have a common subject, I’m pretty good, but years ago, if I had to go to a party … and had to talk to people, it [was] torture,” he said on the podcast.
His fiancée, Lauren Silverman, nevertheless, is the skilled of small discuss, based on Cowell.
“Now, Lauren [Silverman, my fiancée] is brilliant in these positions. I’m hopeless. Joan Collins had a birthday party and I said to Lauren, ‘I’ll go, but we have to time it ‘cause there will be a horrible stand-up, pre-drinks [that] I can’t do,” he continued.
Cowell popped the query to Silverman in December 2021 after eight years of relationship.
The couple shares one little one, son Eric, who turned 11 in February on Valentine’s Day.
Cowell made headlines months in the past when he broke his silence on Liam Payne’s demise after the One Course alum’s deadly fall off his lodge balcony in October.
“The X Factor UK” decide reunited with the boy group he created — together with members Harry Kinds, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik — at Payne’s funeral.
Following Payne’s stunning demise, Cowell launched an emotional assertion.
“You never really know how you feel about someone until a moment like this happens,” he wrote on Instagram. “Liam, I am devastated. Heartbroken. And I feel empty. And I want you to know how much love and respect I have for you. Every tear I have shed is a memory of you.”
