Pete Waterman Claims He Made Simon Cowell

It has been reported that Pete Waterman claims that he is responsible for Simon Cowell’s success.

Pete insists that he forced the X Factor host to come out of his shell and make the bold and derogatory comments for which he his famed.

Pete said that “When we did that first day’s filming of Pop Idol, none of us could have realised that it would ever become the biggest television show on the planet. It was a big shambles! If I had not known Simon, I am sure it wouldn’t have worked - because I’m the one who got Simon to be Simon. I called him in and said, ‘Sorry Simon, if I came to you with a piece of c***, you would tell me it was a piece of c***. You’ve always got an opinion about everything and now, suddenly, you haven’t got an opinion’. He followed me around for so many years. If you go back to the 1980s, wherever I was, Simon was always somewhere very close behind. I gave him his first Christmas number one, some of his biggest acts and made him into a TV star.”

What do you think did Pete make Simon what he is today?

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