Simon Cowell Reignites Feud Rumors With Ryan Seacrest

Simon Cowell is opening up about his difficult relationship with longtime “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest, and followers are shook. In a latest chat, Cowell shared some blunt remarks that immediately sparked hypothesis a couple of behind-the-scenes rift between the previous “American Idol” costars, who helped launch one in all tv’s largest franchises collectively again in 2002. Their on-air chemistry was iconic, however their historical past, crammed with tense exchanges, competitiveness, and occasional jabs, has at all times fueled rumors of friction. Now, Simon Cowell’s newest feedback are reigniting questions on what actually occurred between the 2 TV titans.

In a uncommon new look on The New York Occasions’ podcast “The Interview,” the 66-year-old actuality TV mogul addressed whether or not he retains up with Seacrest’s profession, weighed in on the host’s rise to fame, and revealed that the 2 “not often speak now.” When requested why he thought Ryan Seacrest grew to become so well-liked. His reply was unexpectedly sharp. “I don’t know, really,” Cowell stated. “He was very, very bold. And look, I don’t comply with his profession if I’m being trustworthy with you. So I don’t know what he’s executed or doing.”

He added that Seacrest has at all times been laser-focused on fame. “I at all times knew with Ryan, he was very steely about his profession, eager to be well-known,” the previous “American Idol” decide stated. “I imply this large, large want about being very well-known.”

Cowell did provide one nod of reward, saying Seacrest “does work laborious.”

This is not the primary time there was a suggestion of actual friction between the 2. In 2007, throughout a dwell episode, Seacrest requested Cowell if he had recommendation for contestant Melinda Doolittle, who was performing in four-inch heels. Cowell quipped, “You need to know, Ryan.”

Seacrest hit again, “Keep out of my closet,” to which Cowell replied, “Come out!” Seacrest then shut it down with, “That is in regards to the prime 12, not your needs.” Sources later claimed elements of the change have been scripted and that the 2 have been “actual good buddies off-camera,” usually getting drinks and dinner throughout auditions.

Later the identical yr, tensions resurfaced when Cowell known as Seacrest a “sweetheart.” Seacrest shot again, “Don’t name me sweetheart… We don’t have that sort of relationship,” to which Cowell replied, “I don’t need that sort of relationship.” Seacrest agreed, “Precisely. We’ll simply work collectively.”

Their banter escalated once more when Seacrest accused Cowell of being “so unfavourable,” to which Cowell responded, “I’m not being unfavourable. In contrast to you, I really respect the viewers at residence, and I don’t imagine in mendacity to them.” Seacrest noticeably excluded Cowell’s identify when thanking the judges later within the episode.

Cowell wasn’t the one one throwing shade. In 2010, shortly after Cowell left “Idol,” Seacrest advised Entertainment Weekly that Cowell had been “so jealous” of him, claiming, “From day one, he was envious of my profession at such a younger age.”

He later softened his stance. In a 2010 interview with Ellen DeGeneres, Seacrest insisted, “We’re really pleasant. We don’t maintain a grudge. We now have a really aggressive spirit and angle on the present, however we’re buddies.”

And in 2017, he praised Cowell once more on Ellen, calling him “at all times entertaining.”