Simon Cowell: "X Factor" Secrets Revealed

Simon Cowell here with some exclusive news for you, Young Hollywood, on The X Factor. You know the rules, $5 million to the winner. Have fun. What we, we, we, we, we changed it dramatically from Idol from what I said earlier on, which is that we are telling the story now through the eyes of the, of the contestants. It looks very, very different to any other show I've made before. It's a 100 miles away from where Idol was. Um, I wouldn't want X Factor to be like Idol. This was, this is a show. It's almost like making the show for the first time. How I felt when I first made Idol, what is it, 10, 11 years ago? I have that same feeling with the show this year.

This is different territory for me now. I think the best secret I can share with, with, with the viewers is that you're going to see something you've normally never been allowed to watch before. The worst thing that can happen to him is you can't remember a single thing. You make a complete fool of yourself and your career's over. Great. That's the worst that can happen. Awesome. Do you feel better? make you feel better? no pressure at all. I've done so many of these shows from Idol to X Factor to Got Talent. And I like to be surprised.

I mean, if if somebody had said to me five years ago, the biggest selling artist in the world's going to be a 48-year-old woman who lives in Scotland with her cat. be like, yeah, right. And that happened to be Susan Boyle. Um, so in this day and age, you can't predict what's going to happen until it's in front of you. All all has taught me is that you've got to be open-minded, and I'm much more open-minded now. I'm glad you came. really, really grown up, Demi.