Shock: Simon Cowell paid $36 mil/year

From contactmusic.com

"In his new book, Desperate Networks, New York Times TV writer Bill Carter
discloses that Fox pays American Idol panelist and co-producer Simon Cowell
$36 million a year and that the reason that it doesn't run Idol in the fall

Obveeus...

The 'lead actor' on the number one show in America. Why are you surprised
at the salary? The Friends cast got $1,000,000 per half hour of airtime.

John Duncan Yoyo...

Simon deserves some big bucks for perseverance he got turned down by
all the networks at least twice. FOX only picked up when Rupert's
Daughter told Rupert what a hit it was in the UK and Rupert ordered
his suits to buy it already.

Plus Simon is also a producer and creator of the show so he probably
gets money for each of the hats he wears.

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has little to do with its post-season baseball coverage and more to do with
the fact that Cowell produces a high British reality series called the

The Christmas Place...

and he's not even working a year...

Patrick Joseph McNamara...

Not to mention the licensing fees if he owns Idol.

$36 mil may sound like a lot, but one must remember that he would have staff
to pay out of that.

X-Factor in which he also appears. The book also reveals that in just the
four months that it does air, it offers 45 hours of programming, while other
hit shows air about 24 hours for an entire season."