SIMON Cowell was once offered $100,000 to watch a couple have sex and then critique their lovemaking, the “American Idol” star tells “60 Minutes” this Sunday night.
“I stupidly turned it down,” Cowell now says regretfully. “I should’ve taken the money, because it would be a much more interesting story now,” he says.
The incident occurred just as Cowell was becoming famous for his caustic comments on “American Idol,” as he was dining in a Hollywood restaurant.
He says he was approached by a “respectable” looking man who asked him if he did things for money.
“I said it depends on how much and he said he wanted me to come to his house and comment on him and his wife in bed.
“They were both in their fifties and he was going to pay me $100,000 for it.”
In the wide-ranging “60 Minutes” interview – conducted by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, an occasional CBS contributor – Cowell also claims that he is more valuable to Sony/BMG than its best-paid star, Bruce Springsteen.
“I sell more records than Bruce Springsteen,” Cowell boasts. The rock star’s contract with the record label is estimated to be around $100 million.
“In the last five years, I’ve probably sold over 100 million records [because of ‘Idol’].
Cowell says that by doing “Idol,” “I signed the biggest artist on the planet and it’s called ‘Idol’ because every single ‘Idol’ winner is now signed through Sony/BMG. And this applies . . . to all the countries. . . we sell ‘Idol’ to, which is over 30 countries.”