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10-21-2008, 06:52 PM
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10-21-2008, 06:54 PM
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10-21-2008, 07:13 PM
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Oh, I forgot... he makes America a better place for all, just like pro football players and movie stars. We should pay him more.
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10-21-2008, 07:21 PM
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10-21-2008, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by bimplizkit 
Oh, I forgot... he makes America a better place for all, just like pro football players and movie stars. We should pay him more.
| LOL! And don't forget supermodels, they make people feel good about themselves. 
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10-21-2008, 11:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Fayetteville/NC | | | only 50mil? i thought he'd have made a whole lot more from it. but i guess Don is right, when you combine all the other Idol show's he probably collects just from the initial idea its probably insane. he might be an A-hole but good for him I say.
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10-21-2008, 11:23 PM
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Originally Posted by JNowiski only 50mil? i thought he'd have made a whole lot more from it. but i guess Don is right, when you combine all the other Idol show's he probably collects just from the initial idea its probably insane. he might be an A-hole but good for him I say. | Simon Fuller is the inventor of the show...
Cowell is just a show host ...
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10-21-2008, 11:52 PM
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Originally Posted by D.Don Simon Fuller is the inventor of the show...
Cowell is just a show host ...
D.Don | true that my bad. i haven't seen the show in a couple years. then i retract my last statement and say "i'm surprised he only makes 50 mil off the show"
how much do the other judges make?
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10-21-2008, 11:55 PM
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Originally Posted by JNowiski true that my bad. i haven't seen the show in a couple years. then i retract my last statement and say "i'm surprised he only makes 50 mil off the show"
how much do the other judges make? | I have never watched it, don't have a tv, dislike media, and especially tv.
But I read a lot, and simon fuller is an interesting phenomena, that dude more or less invented spice girls too ...
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10-22-2008, 12:05 AM
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10-22-2008, 12:27 AM
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Originally Posted by gold_member_321 I wish I could make that much money humiliating and belittling people. | You could always try politics ... 
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10-22-2008, 02:58 AM
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Originally Posted by bimplizkit Good ol' USA, is this a great country or what .
Oh, I forgot... he makes America a better place for all, just like pro football players and movie stars. We should pay him more. |
All those peopla are WAY overpaid, but this just blew my mind. He does nothing. |
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Originally Posted by gold_member_321 I wish I could make that much money humiliating and belittling people. | I'll be the contrary voice here. Simon is my favorite person on the show - he says things that contestants need to hear, and nobody had the stones to tell them before. I agree with him most of the time.
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10-22-2008, 05:05 AM
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10-22-2008, 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted by bimplizkit Good ol' USA, is this a great country or what .
Oh, I forgot... he makes America a better place for all, just like pro football players and movie stars. We should pay him more. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pacman I'll be the contrary voice here. Simon is my favorite person on the show - he says things that contestants need to hear, and nobody had the stones to tell them before. I agree with him most of the time. | It's funny that people in the US need an English guy to tell you the bad news!! 
It's like how the bad guys/villains in many Hollywood Blockbusters are played by English Actors... 
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10-22-2008, 05:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Pacman I'll be the contrary voice here. Simon is my favorite person on the show - he says things that contestants need to hear, and nobody had the stones to tell them before. I agree with him most of the time. | +1
Although he's a lot nicer than I would be... 
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10-22-2008, 06:13 AM
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10-22-2008, 06:17 AM
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10-22-2008, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Chris2112 I just like watching the X Factor to see Louis Walsh and Simon argue...! | Actually that has stopped me watching it, as it is so boring and predictable ...
Never a big fan - but it's just so pathetic how you know that Simon is ging to criticise Louis' choice of song and go on about how he is too old....
I though that the recent spoof by Peter Kay might have put paid to it... it's just such a self-parody now...and if any of the acts were decent artists and wanted it so much - why didn't they get out there and sing in pubs and clubs and build a proper musical career!!??
As Peter Kay showed it's just become a soap opera about who has the most tragic backstory.... 
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10-22-2008, 07:30 AM
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I'm with Pacman here. What he says is usually what the contestant really needs to hear.
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