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Sunday, November 16, 2008
11/17: Simon Cowell & ex girlfriend talk
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This is courtesy of Extra TV:
SIMON COWELL AND TERRI SEYMOUR: FIRST INTERVIEW ABOUT THE SPLIT
(Los Angeles - November 16, 2008) - In the first and only television interview about their break-up, Simon Cowell and Terri Seymour come to “Extra” to set the record straight.
When asked why, Cowell replies, “Because Terri decided to dump me…You sent me a text.” Seymour responds, “I didn’t dump you…Just time. We had a great six years and we’re the best of friends.”
Cowell reveals he and Seymour still talk every day. “I do call Terri, first, when I’ve got an issue or I’m moaning about something, or I want to bounce an idea off.” Seymour adds, “We do speak more now on the phone all the time. It’s true.”
Cowell clears up the rumor that he gave Seymour a 5 million pound ($9 million US) parting gift. “That is actually not a true story. If anything I should be getting the money,” Cowell laughs. “Rumors come around, just people read things, then they create a story. But no, there was no 5 million pounds, no.”
-Here are some early reviews of the David Cook album:
The Boston Globe writes that there’s not enough Cook in the record.
Cook was this year’s designated “rocker” on the Fox talent contest. But his eponymous debut, out tomorrow, never really goes far enough in any particular direction to stake a claim for individuality. Indeed, it’s hard to distinguish Cook’s sound from that of his own idols, like Our Lady Peace and Better Than Ezra.
The Miami Herald seconds that notion.
If anyone hoped that David Cook, the first ”rocker” to win the title of American Idol, would make good on his promise to release a major label debut album that was truly his own brand of rock music, well the resulting David Cook isn’t it.
But he ends with a kind note: It’s infectious where it needs to be, and professional. For many of Cook’s fans, it’s more than enough to tide them over til the next album.
The Daily News? Not so kind at all. The reviewer Jim Farber was an Archuleta fan
Even by the most generous math, he’s a sixth-generation copy of an original sound, descended, steeply, from Nirvana’s meaningful peak through second stringers (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden), third (Candlebox, Bush), fourth (Nickelback) and fifth (Daughtry). Cook, let us pray, will slam the final nail into this coffin.
