Simon Cowell's Gallery Of Stars

Simon Cowell ha worked in the music industry for nearly 30 years. He started in the post room at EMI Music Publishing. After starting his own label at the age of 23, Simon joined BMG in 1989 and began a relationship that has lasted decades. During his time at BMG, Simon has sold over 150 million records and has had over 50 number ones.

In this gallery, we present some of the stars and programmes associated with the acerbic one...excluding The Spice Girls. He turned them down in the 1990s. D'oh!

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