Simon Cowell Says He Regrets Not Owning One Direction’s Name

One other day, one other horrible Simon Cowell take. Simply days after he proclaimed there’d not been a “megastar boyband” since One Course (we beg to vary), the previous X Issue decide is now sharing his one remorse with One Course.

Showing on The Diary of a CEO podcast, Simon Cowell admitted his one large remorse with One Course is just not proudly owning the group’s title, which might have allowed him to do adjoining initiatives like “an animation or no matter.”

“The one factor I remorse is I ought to have saved the title,” Cowell admitted, lamenting the truth that the bandmembers personal the group’s title and, subsequently, what will be performed with it as a result of God forbid artists personal their very own picture. “I ought to have owned the title. That is the issue. If you give an artist the title, it isn’t yours. And that is my solely remorse. So should you’re listening, I will purchase it again from you.”

Cowell elaborated: “If one of many band members, for no matter motive, say they do not need to tour, it might probably cease the others [from] touring. So, if it was me who owned the title, it would not be an issue.”

The recording producer claimed that not proudly owning One Course’s title was a “very, very naive” transfer on his half and admitted that it was one thing that would not occur once more sooner or later with different potential boybands. “Subsequent time, that shall be a part of the deal. I’ve to personal the title. They’ll nonetheless make a lot of the cash, however I have to personal the title,” he added. How good.

Cowell may be hypothetically talking now, however these hypotheticals might quickly turn into a actuality since he is actively on the lookout for “the subsequent One Course” with open auditions for a brand new boyband beginning this summer time within the U.Ok. for a possible new documentary collection produced with Field to Field Movies.