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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Monkey

Simon Cowell's trailer has The X Factor

Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell: trailer flash. Photograph: Rex Features

For all those having sleepless nights worrying about Simon Cowell's welfare since he largely quit UK television to focus on the US version of The X Factor, relief is at hand. Feast your eyes on this Hollywood Reporter gallery taking a peek inside his modest, down to earth trailer on the Fox talent show set. Prepare to be statgasmed – but where to begin? Let's try the behemoth's general dimensions: weighing in at a mere 40 tons, it's two-storey and covers 1,100 square feet. Home entertainment: 26 speakers, three 60-plus inch 3D TVs for watching live feeds of The X Factor rehearsals. But it's the smaller details that really tickle Monkey's fancy. Like the fact that the trailer was "refinished in Italy with 20 coats of hand-rubbed finish". Or the second floor glass divider, which "goes opaque" at the touch of a button if Cowell needs a bit of privacy. Blimey, does this guy run Syco or Tyrell Corporation? Then there's the makeup area, where applying Cowell's "light foundation only takes about five minutes", but should he get bored "he can press a button for a television set to pop out". Decadent, moi?

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