written by lee jeske...American Idol star Simon Cowell spoke with Britain's Mirror at his Hollywood mansion recently, and gave the tabloid an earful about one celebrity who's never even been on the show. "Britney [Spears] has brought this on herself. I think she's manipulated the whole thing. I've heard she won't leave the house until there are enough photographers there." While saying he "hated" Britney's last album, Simon says he's got more sympathy for Grammy-winning soul singer Amy Winehouse. He calls her "an amazing talent. If I had been managing her I would have got her into rehab from day one. Then maybe none of this nonsense would have happened."
The 48-year-old also discussed Terri Seymour, his girlfriend of five years, and explained why he has no intention of making their relationship permanent -- he's afraid she'll "do a Heather Mills on him" and take all his hard-earned money. "I don't believe in marriage, certainly not in this business. You get married and in a year or two they clean you out! We have contracts with artists that are 120 pages long and last five years. Then you go into marriage with no contract and the laws are a thousand years old. It doesn't work."
Simon also let slip to Britain's Glamour magazine that last year he turned down a two-million-dollar offer to be a spokesman for Viagra, calling it "an insult." Whether he meant the money or the implication was not made clear.
