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Awards
Simon Cowell wins Emmy award
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 24 November 2010
Simon Cowell was presented with a Founders Award at the International Emmy Awards on Monday night, recognising his contribution to the wonderful world of television over the last decade. In order to ensure that Cowell wouldn’t be the most hated man on the stage, organisers wheeled Rupert Murdoch on to hand over the award. Murdoch is also, of course, owner of the Fox TV network, which broadcasts ‘American Idol’ in the US.
Accepting the award, Cowell said: “When I think back over ten years, I can genuinely say I’ve had the best time I’ve ever had in my life. Whoever said fame, money, success will destroy you is completely wrong”. Let’s hope that’s not a soundbite that comes back to haunt him.
Cowell is, as previously reported, standing down as a judge on the new series of ‘American Idol’ in order to concentrate on launching the US version of ‘X-Factor’. Commenting on his replacement, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, he said: “I always said it had to be someone who wasn’t better looking than me and they achieved it”.
What a nice guy.
