Simon Cowell is top of US reality TV
Simon Cowell has been named the most powerful person in US reality TV for the second year in a row.
The American Idol judge tops The Hollywood Reporter list of 50 that also includes fellow Brits Simon Fuller and Gordon Ramsey.
The entertainment bible speaks glowingly of the 50-year-old who heads his own production outfit, Syco Television.
In the profile they describe Cowell as being ‘a singular on-air talent able to captivate an audience in a way that no one has replicated, ten years into the reality TV era’.
The Reporter also says: “Plucked from obscurity (well, England), he became a star merely because he is compelling to watch.
“He is complex (behind that cantankerous on-air personality is an ardent dog lover who calls his mother almost every day), opinionated and driven.
“He says that: ‘being number one is verging on an obsession with me’.”
Cowell is also praised for creating a buzz with his US version of The X Factor, which won’t air for another 15 months.
“But from the beginning, Cowell held all the aces,” The Reporter says.
Source: Splash News
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