After the backlash over this season’s “Britain’s Got Talent,” judge Simon Cowell has come forward to admit that he has made mistakes along the way.
“It was a huge, huge mistake. It almost ruined the whole evening for everybody. Looking back, I know I could have been kinder.
In the heat of the moment, I had treated him as I would an adult, forgetting that he was only an 11-year-old child with a dream.
I apologised to him afterwards, but it didn’t make me feel any better about it. Moral of the story? I don’t always get it right.”
Simon also addresses the sore losers from some of his reality shows:
“From the way some of the contestants go on, you would think they had been locked up and tortured or taken into a room to have a personal confession beaten out of them, instead of voluntarily taking part in a televised talent show.”
View Hollie Steel performance video, Aidan Davis performance video and the entire Simon Cowell open letter below.
Hollie Steel cries after forgetting her lyrics