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Elton John is “bitchy” says Simon Cowell
Saturday, December 11 2010

Simon Cowell hit back and critics of the X Factor at the pre-final press conference on December 09, 2010 and deepened his feud with music legend Sir Elton John.

The music mogul said of Elton: “We’ve had this sort of love hate relationship.” His comments come weeks after Elton blasted the show telling the Metro: “It’s become boring, a***-paralysingly brain crippling.” He also told DJ Christian O'Connell on his Absolute Radio Breakfast Show that he was concerned about the “psychological damage” to contestants and that they were treated like “products”.

Defending the show Simon told the assembled journalists yesterday: “That is why I’ve always liked him [Elton] because he’s bitchy.” When told that Paul Weller had also criticised the show he said cattily: “If Paul Weller put out a good record I’d put him on the show.”

Facing criticism that his show has a stranglehold on the charts he told the press: “With regard to the X Factor and what it does for music what we’ve done for the Sunday show is we’ve had up to three performances sometimes. But I think it’s crazy to say when you’ve got 18, 19, 20 million people watching the show getting interested in music again that we have a stranglehold on it. It’s actually ludicrous."

He claimed that the X Factor had sparked a revitalisation of the music industry: “You speak to most retailers and they tell you it’s stimulated people going back in, getting interested in music again.” Denying claims that he is shutting out rival record labels he continued: “It’s very rare that we’ve just had Sony acts, there have been weeks we’ve had three Universal acts on. I don’t’ care as long as the artist is good, popular.”

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