Originally Posted by olive0000:
“cause of Simon, for the american version, something about, simon didnt have time to appear on it or something, and paid for Piers to go to a meeting in America after putting in a good word for him and he got the job. i read Piers talking about it a few weeks ago.”
Simon was not allowed to go on it - he is hosting American Idol which is on one network(Fox), and he sold the format to another channel - his company can work on the product but Fox didn't want him to be on screen on another channel - bit like if you host on ITV and BBC at the same time.