Will Simon Cowell be following Paula Abdul out the door of American Idol?
The news was broken by Cowell’s brother Tony, who hosts a weekly radio podcast called “The Cowell Factor” and noted that his brother was working on an announcement.
“A press statement is being prepared which will confirm what everyone expected — Simon will leave ‘Idol’ at the end of 2010 to concentrate on bringing the American version of ‘The X Factor’ to US TV in 2011,” Tony Cowell claimed, according to Britain’s Sun newspaper.
Simon is reportedly working on bringing his new series “X Factor” which has been a hit in the UK, including discovering Leona Lewis, to the US.