It’s never say never forSimon Cowellwhen it comes to anX Factorcomeback.
“I think about 24 hours ago, I just came to a decision, which is — literally I was thinking on my own, if I had a choice, I would do it here,” he toldAccess Hollywood’s Scott Evans. “I swear to God.”
“I was thinking about Fifth Harmony, I was thinking aboutCamila [Cabello], and I was just thinking about how much fun we had,” he said. “Cause I like working with groups, and there aren’t that many groups at the moment, and we found some great groups on that show. And it was like, yeah, I would do it just for that reason.”
The Syco founder created bothThe X Factor UKandThe X Factor US, the latter of which ended in 2013 after three seasons. Both shows served as a launchpad for a host of successful groups, includingOne Direction, Fifth Harmony andLittle Mix.
Simon Cowell.Amy Sussman/WireImage
In an interview withExtrain August, Cowellreflected on the auditionsof some of the show’s most famous alumni, including Cabello, 25, who was eliminated after her 2012 solo try-out, but brought back as a member of Fifth Harmony.
“She wasn’t really supposed to audition,” Cowell revealed. “I happened to go backstage, and I saw her crying, asked her why she was crying, and she said, you know, it was too late for her to audition because she was a reserve, whatever that meant.”
He continued, “I said to her, ‘Well, I’m one of the producers, you just got an audition.'”
Camila Cabello, Simon Cowell, Harry Styles.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; Allen Berezovsky/WireImage; Dia Dipasupil/FilmMagic
Harry Styles was another contestant who auditioned solo but was eventually placed into a group — One Direction.
Cowell said he remembered the 28-year-old “As It Was” singer’s 2010 audition “like it was yesterday.”
“He was very charming, he was very confident, he was very funny, and I liked him,” he said. “I just thought there’s something … special about him. You never forget those moments, and, like I said, genuinely if we weren’t making people’s careers successful, I would never be making these shows today.”
He continued: “When those moments work, and seeing Camila today or Harry Styles, Leona Lewis,Carrie Underwood,Kelly Clarkson, there’s been so many times luckily where I’ve been there at that moment where their career is going to go in a completely different direction. If we didn’t have those things happen, then there’d be no point making the shows.”
source: people.com
