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American Idol Judge Simon Cowell Makes 46 Million for being an ASS 

Being rude to Americans can be highly lucrative – and win you their trust. That, at least, is the lesson of Simon Cowell, the caustic judge on American Idol.

It has been revealed that he is paid $US36 million ($46 million) a year, or $US98,630 per day, for insulting wannabe pop stars.

“Screechy and annoying,” was his verdict on 17-year-old Paris Bennett, before she was dumped from the competition.

News of Cowell’s salary, revealed by Desperate Networks, a book by The New York Times reporter Bill Carter, comes as a survey finds that 58 per cent of viewers who vote for American Idol trust Cowell more than his fellow judges. Only 26 per cent trust Randy Jackson, whose catchphrase is “Dude, you were the bomb!”, and only 7 per cent pay attention to Paula Abdul, whose judgments often make little sense.

The London-born Cowell was initially hated by the American public when the US version of Pop Idol was launched. He gradually won respect, however, when his cringingly honest opinions turned out to be generally correct. Cowell displays no traditional British reserve while filming in Los Angeles for the show. He drives a Ferrari and is reportedly building a mansion in Beverly Hills.

When told that 35 per cent of American Idol viewers thought their votes counted as much as those for the presidency, Cowell said: “What if – and I’ll throw this challenge out to President Bush – we do President Idol? A couple of songs, a bit of dancing, and I’ll judge it. Maybe that’s how we should decide the next president.”

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