Simon Phillip Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol. He is also the owner of the television production and music publishing house Syco.
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While a number of American Idol contestants have brushes with the law
surfacing, judge Simon Cowell has owned up to an arrest of his own - for
hijacking a bus with a gun.
The British music mogul admits his past is a little tarnished in the legal
department - for a dangerous prank he and a friend decided to pull at the
tender age of 12.
He recalls, "When I was 12 years old, I hijacked a bus with a pea gun.
It's a gun that fires peas and they go about six feet.
"Myself and a friend were going on a bus and we thought it would be a joke
to put the gun to the driver's head and say take us to where we were going.
"He believed us and I remember sitting on the bus thinking, 'God, this
guy's really playing along with this well,' because he didn't stop for 20
miles. We got to the other end and there were police cars waiting for us and
they threw us in
jail."
When it was discovered by SCOTLAND YARD that all the boys had were pea
guns, their legal woes were over - but Cowell still had to face the wrath of
his mother.
He adds, "My mum turned up with my dad and she had me picking up stones on
a farm for a week as my punishment."
He laughs, "If the producers had found out I wouldn't be a judge on
American Idol!"
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