Simon Cowell Leaving American Idol?

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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.

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