[Netizen]

Simon Cowell Offers Sanjaya Malakar No Chance 3/10/07

http://www.celebrityspider.com/news/march07/article031007-6.html

American Idol judge Simon Cowell has doomed a wannabe singer's chance of winning the TV talent contest by revealing he'll quit the show if he wins.

The acid-tongued British svengali admits he was stunned when contestant Sanjaya Malakar beat rocker Sundance Head for a place in the final 12 on Thursday night (08MAR07), and he'll leave the show if the Indian-American singer is crowned the next American Idol.

Brutal Cowell says, "He's not going to win. I won't be back if he does!"

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What's the matter Simon? You, Paula and Randy made the bed, now lie in it! You passed him though to Hollywood and then again to the top 24. You reap what you sow. It's almost fun to watch Simon squirm over this.

[retrokitten]

Exactly! America didn't initially select him! YOU DID, SIMON!!

[DCPatriot]

Then Simon will most definitely be back because the next American Idol is Melinda Doolittle. ;^)

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

You know, it was just plain nasty of Simon to make that remark about quitting if Sanjaya wins. It's obvious that Sanjaya knows already how out of his depth he is. But what is Sanjaya supposed to do, quit the show? That looks like poor sportsmanship at least. But now on top of being miserably aware of not being up to the level of the others, and still trying to turn in some kind of halfway decent performance, he has to deal with Simon's nasty remark about him. And as others have pointed out, it's 1/3 Simon's fault that he's there at all, for passing Sanjaya through in the first place.

This is the first time that I've been seriously annoyed with Simon.