Simon Cowell has made a very good living for himself by offering fair, honest and at times harsh critiques of people on stage.
Sometimes they’re singing. Sometimes they’re dancing. Sometimes they’re doing really strange acts as part of America’s Got Talent.
And sometimes they’re… ravaging their significant other in front of Cowell before later asking for his opinion on their technique and passion?
Yes, apparently.
Appearing on the How to Fail podcast this week, the former American Idol judge said people “used to ask me to be rude to them.”
This tracks because Cowell rose to fame by having no filter at all in what he would say to aspiring singers and contestants.
Cowell then went on during this podcast interview, taking the topic in a direction we did NOT see coming.
“One time, I was in a restaurant and this guy comes up to me and he said, ‘I love your show. Would you take a picture?’ [I say], ‘Sure,’” Cowell explained, revealing the stranger then introduced his wife and asked the reality star if he would “judge [them] having sex.”
Cowell thought the couple was kidding around of course. But then they offered to pay him.
“[I said], ‘Well, how much?’ It was actually a lot of money. I thought, ‘Do I? No, I just can’t do it,’” he said of the ethical dilemma before revealing they offered him a whopping $150,000 to watch them get down in the bedroom.
Yes, this really happened.
“It was just so bizarre,” Cowell said of the proposal.
On a more serious note, Cowell made headlines months ago when he broke his silence on Liam Payne’s death after the One Direction alum’s fatal fall off his hotel balcony in October.
Following Payne’s shocking passing, Cowell – who helped discovered the boy band and helped launch their massive career released an emotional statement.
It read in part:
“You never really know how you feel about someone until a moment like this happens. Liam, I am devastated. Heartbroken. And I feel empty. And I want you to know how much love and respect I have for you. Every tear I have shed is a memory of you.”
Simon Cowell: I Was Offered 150K to Judge a Couple Having Sex! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.