The 64-year-old also opened up about missing his parents, revealing that he felt he had “nothing to hold on to”.
Simon Cowell revealed his only regret when it came to managing A course.
When appearing on Steven Bartlett’s podcast, Diary of a CEOthe English TV personality and archive executive revealed his biggest mistake in creating the world-renowned boy band that included, Harry Types, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Liam Payne It is Louis Tomlinson.
“The only thing I regret is that I should have had the title,” he told Bartlett.
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The 64-year-old brought the five boys together as he judged ITV The X question in 2010. Although they didn’t win the competition series, once the show ended, Cowell signed the band to his record label Syco Music and they became the best all-male promo team of all time.
The band lost Malik in 2015, when he left to pursue a solo music career, and they split for good a year later. However, despite the split, the band still holds the title “One Course,” preventing Cowell from creating anything without the approval of each member.
“They own the title. I could have done an animation or something,” said Cowell, before turning to the camera and directing his comment at his former band. “So if you’re listening to One Course, I’ll buy from you again.”
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O Experience purchased in America Choose vowed to never make that mistake again: “That was me being very naive. Next time, I’ll have to own the title.
Cowell also revealed the first piece of advice he gave the boys when they were starting out.
“I told them never to complain about the paparazzi because they will take pictures of you, not to complain about the invasion of privacy because people will always want to have a photo with you, not to complain about the long hours,” he recalled, adding that if they had If there was a problem with something, they would have to “do something else”.
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The British TV star also opened up about missing her parents and feeling like she had “nothing to live for” and “reached a point where nothing mattered.” Cowell had a close relationship with her parents Julie – who died in 2015 – and Eric – who died 15 years earlier in 1999.
“If I got hit by a bus the next day, I wouldn’t be worried about something like that. The whole time it was dark. It was the last degree. I can relate when people say that being alive doesn’t matter anymore,” he said of the devastating loss, adding that all the “material issues” he had “didn’t mean anything.”
It was only when the music mogul’s partner, Lauren Silverman, told him she was expecting a child that “everything” changed.
“Before him I had reached the point where nothing mattered. All of this hit me so exhaustingly. Being on TV I felt like a clown because I was dying inside. I gained a lot of weight,” he said. “And it changed everything. It made me happy again, it felt good.”
Cowell’s son Eric, named after his father, was born in 2014.
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