Simon Cowell Quitting American Idol

Published by djmick on April 13th, 2009

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It looks more likely that music mistro and reality show judge Simon Cowell will stand down as a presenter on American Idol as he struggles to keep up with his hectic workload.

He already fronts Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor in the UK plus he also heads a record label and a television production firm.

To maintain his hectic filming schedule he makes up to four transatlantic flights a week and despite insisting he feels fit and healthy Cowell says his American commitments may face the axe once his contract is up next year.

He says, “I don’t want to come over as whiney because I am very grateful that I have got these jobs. But there is a point where I am not sure we can keep this schedule up.

“It takes longer and longer to make these shows because you have to put more into them, and I am not sure we can sustain me doing three shows a year, with the record label and the TV production company.

“Most people do one show a year and I do three and they involve a lot of travelling. One may have to go. I don’t know which one. That is the problem, I like all of them. I can’t imagine not doing Britain’s Got Talent and I can’t imagine not doing X Factor.

“But I guess America is more likely to go because I have got one year under contract. Maybe that will be the end.”

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