‘IF ERIC HADN’T COME ALONG, GOD KNOWS WHAT WOULD’VE HAPPENED’
HIS comments were cutting enough to reduce the toughest contestants to tears.
“I don’t know what cats being squashed sound like in Lithuania but I now have a pretty good idea,” he told one.
“I’m tempted to ask if you sang that the night before your wife left you,” he barked at another.
“Do you have a singing teacher?” he snapped at yet another. “Get a lawyer and sue her.”
It was vintage Mr Nasty stuff – and it helped him become a household name the world over. Simon Cowell was the reality show judge people loved to hate, the villain of TV talent searches, the guy who could
