The Guardian is reporting that Simon Cowell was offered somewhere between $100-$144 million to stay on American Idol for season 10 and I don't think in these economic times anyone is worth that amount of money.
A source close to Fuller says that Cowell has already been offered three to four times the $36m he was paid for American Idol in 2008 – but then, he is the most important person on the show and the series makes $900m a year and attracts audiences of 25 million. The point is that Cowell makes nothing more than this admittedly large performance fee and that's the gap the Green deal hopes to fill.
While I understand that Idol brings in $900 million a year, Fox affils are laying off people left and right and maybe if Fox put some of the money back into the company and not into Simon Cowell's pocket more people would still have their jobs and not collecting unemployment.
Don't get me wrong, I love Simon and I want to keep on the show but is anyone worth that amount of money? Do you think he is worth over $100 million to keep him on American Idol?
Before Randy Jackson took the journey of being a Judge on American Idol, he was touring with Journey. The 30 year old could play a mean guitar, but I can’t not be mean when describing his hair and dancing back in 1986. That was bad dog. Dude, what were you thinking? That look wasn’t a’right.
Simon Cowell is going to the movies! The open-shirted John Travolta wannabe Judge and reality show mogul is thisclose to getting the rights to remake Saturday Night Fever according to The Sun.
A source said: “Simon has been looking into buying the rights for years and opened discussions with Robert about the remake.
“The charm offensive has been in full swing and they made a breakthrough over the last couple of weeks.
“Robert was keen to get some assurances the original wouldn’t be completely butchered before he agreed to the deal.
“Simon has been drawing up a list of people he wants to get involved. When that meets Robert’s expectations, the contracts will be signed.”
One of the the names that they are tossing around to play Tony Manero is Zac Efron, but I think he would be a poor choice because he is not manly enough for the role.
I don’t know why, but I am OK with this remake just because Simon Cowell is the one behind it. Seriously can’t you see him watching this movie religiously and so wanting to be Tony Manero so much so he would go out in public donning that polyester look? Oh wait he still kind of dresses like Tony…
Last week Clay Aiken blogged about Adam Lambert’s Ring of Fire and said, “At that moment, thought my ears would bleed. Contrived, awful, and slightly frightening.†The next day Clay said, “I do apologize to Adam for my colorful (and negative) choice of words. I hope he can forgive me,†Clay wrote. “I imagine he doesn’t give a damn! 🙂 God knows he shouldn’t.â€
Well fast forward to today when Access Hollywood asked him about Clay’s comments and he said, “I don’t know Clay…I’m glad he’s getting headlines now though, because he wasn’t before.†Ouch! Those are fighting words! Adam should only wish his career is half as successful as Clay’s because I don’t think it will even be close to that.
BTW how long do you think it will take until these are working on Broadway together and are total BFFs?
Katharine McPhee was recently bombarded by paparazzi until a homeless lady named Quween came to her rescue. FunnyOrDie teamed with the two to create a commercial to help get Quween some work. After seeing Quween in action, I know I am afraid of her.
BTW here is the video that inspired the commercial spoof.
