I saw Simon on Oprah. He was promoting a new group Il Divo - 4 seriously good looking guys from 4 different countries performing opera. The CD comes out this Tuesday.
Oprah asked him a lot about his relationship with Paula since there has been so many blow ups this year. He said the part of the tryouts episode where she was yelling in his face was the tame part. He also said that it's because she wants him and knows that she can never have him - not sure how serious he was about that. I read last year that she had met someone through a matchmaker, but don't know the status of that relationship. Simon continued by saying that Paula has taken on the hardest job of always saying at least once nice thing about each performance; he was surprised that she's always able to come up with something - even when it's just about having nice hair. He said it's a lot easier to be negative than it is to be nice.
However, Paula does seem a bit overboard this year and there was the hit & run indictment. Rumor is that she's addicted to prescription drugs. If she is, I hope she gets help.
My favorite judge is Simon because I usually agree with him, but not as harshly.
For me, Randy's the most annoying because everyone is either Dawg or Dude or da Bomb.
