{"id":38867,"date":"2012-04-17T10:35:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T10:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=38867"},"modified":"2012-04-17T10:35:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T10:35:49","slug":"simon-cowell-biography-daily-mails-arrogance-lost-it-serialisation-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/simon-cowell-biography-daily-mails-arrogance-lost-it-serialisation-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell Biography: Daily Mail&#8217;s &#8216;Arrogance&#8217; Lost It Serialisation Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/simon-cowell-biography-daily-mails-arrogance-lost-it-serialisation-rights\/the-sun-april-2012\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38868\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38868\" title=\"The Sun - April 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/The-Sun-April-2012-008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/The-Sun-April-2012-008.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/The-Sun-April-2012-008-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By\u00a0Dan Sabbagh\u00a0\/The Guardian &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Daily Mail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/dailymail\">Daily Mail<\/a>\u00a0lost the six-figure serialisation battle for Tom Bower&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Simon Cowell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/simoncowell\">Simon Cowell<\/a>\u00a0biography because the paper believed it was the only realistic buyer of the book, MediaGuardian can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Instead,\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on The Sun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/sun\">the Sun<\/a>\u00a0scooped up the rights to extracts for Sweet Revenge: the Intimate Life of Simon Cowell with a bid estimated at about \u00a3100,000, in a week-long deal that began\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/showbiz\/tv\/x_factor\/4257998\/World-exclusive-Simon-Cowell-reveals-how-he-loved-Aussie-X-Factor-judge-Dannii-Minogue-following-steamy-affair.html\">on Sunday with the revelation of the music mogul&#8217;s brief affair with Dannii Minogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bower&#8217;s agent is understood to have offered the Cowell biography, out this weekend, to both the Sun and the Mail titles, in the belief that the two were the only\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Newspapers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/newspapers\">newspapers<\/a>\u00a0likely to offer a six-figure sum.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Mail&#8217;s offer was significantly lower than the Sun&#8217;s \u2013 because, a source close to Bower&#8217;s agent said, publisher Associated Newspapers was &#8220;too arrogant. They believed we could not sell it to the Sun because of the Murdoch connection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cowell&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on The X Factor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/tv-and-radio\/the-x-factor\">The X Factor<\/a>\u00a0airs on News Corporation&#8217;s Fox in the US, and his relationship with the Murdoch broadcaster has been close for years. Cowell&#8217;s US breakthrough came via American Idol, another Fox show \u2013 and the belief at the Mail as understood by Bower&#8217;s negotiators was that it would be difficult for the Sun to publish material critical of him.<\/p>\n<p>One source said that the Bower camp initially demanded \u00a3200,000, although it is unlikely that level would have been achieved. Agents for the biographer indicated that final price for the Sun deal was &#8220;above&#8221; \u00a375,000, and believed to be six figures.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, former News of the World journalists have revealed that Bower&#8217;s revelation of Cowell&#8217;s short-lived relationship with Minogue was something they had tried to publish up a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The story was put forward to Colin Myler, the News of the World editor, who was happy to run it, until, the former journalists said, Cowell rang News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks. The story was dropped after that call.<\/p>\n<p>Bower had no idea about those accounts from the former News of the World journalists until Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>But it is understood that it took some while before Cowell would confirm the truth about the Minogue affair to Bower. The biographer is understood to have asked The X Factor impresario on &#8220;four occasions&#8221; before he was willing to confirm it.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet Revenge is not an official biography, but the author said he spent about 200 hours with Cowell in offices, on planes and on his yacht.<\/p>\n<p>There was no quote approval, but Cowell did give permission for some people to speak to Bower while other associates were asked not to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":38871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-from-foreign-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Simon Cowell Biography: Daily Mail&#039;s &#039;Arrogance&#039; 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