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| [2004] |
 "I hated her guts to start with. Then she got to trust me. I look after her. We do fancy each other"'- [Simon Cowell,
2004] |
Are
Randy and Paula too nice?:
I don't think so. I listen to Paula, and it amazes me how she can look at the bright side
of something. I'm more cynical and she's more optimistic. If they were both like me, it would be a very boring show. [Simon
Cowell, Nickelodean Mag 2004] |
 "It's was one of those love/hate relationships. There are certain days when he's just the most
pleasant, wonderful...just cuddlebug..." [Paula Abdul about Simon, May 7, 2004 Late Night With Conan O'Brien]
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Elle Magazine: Please comment on the sexiness of the following women: Paula Abdul.
Simon: Yeah Paula.
Normally you can tell what somebody will be like sexually by her facial expressions, you know? Paula's actually got a very
naughty face. I think she is quite sexy.
Elle: Ever fantasize about her while sitting at the desk?
Simon:
I did at the beginning, yes. But then I got to know her.
[May 2004 issue] |
| He then addressed the puppy-love-like attention he's been giving Paula Abdul, lately. "You
have to treat Paula like a poodle, one that you've rescued from the pound and who needs attention." [Simon on Extra 4/30/04]
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"Simon
grows on me like a fungus or like a zit that won't pop. But the things is now I enjoy him and I think it's I've become sick
and twisted because I actually look forward to seeing him and ,um, it's weird I need my fix." [Paula Abdul, April 7, 2004
'Simon Cowell-American Idol']
 "I call her my poodle. In otherwords, you sit your poodle
on your lap, you stroke it and it will lick your face and we're both happy." [Simon Cowell, April 2004 'Simon Cowell-American
Idol'] |
EW.com: Um, Paula, Simon, what's going on here? Paula, you appear to have stuck Simon's fingers in your mouth.
Cowell: She's licking me. [To Paula:] You're licking me!
Abdul: [Giggles]
(EW.com at the Top 12
After Party 03.10.04) |
"This time, I think the girls were better than the boys," Abdul said. "I think it's a girls
year. Simon, what do you feel, baby?" [January 2004]
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| [2003] |
Simon on the Early Show (CBS) 12/05/03:
-an excerpt from the interview:
Interviewer: I forgot to ask you about Paula
Abdul. Do you guys get along? Is it unrequited love? You know it reminds me sometimes like two kids on a playground...she
has a crush on you, you have a crush on her. What gives?
Simon: Um, if I don't like somebody I'm very polite. So then
I think you can draw from that, um, 'you must like Paula' because I'm so comfortable with her that I feel we can kind
of criticize each other. Listen, there are times when I hate her guts.
Interviewer: (laughs)
Simon: Trust
me, she hates me a lot more.
Interviewer: It's not that you hate her, right? It's just sort of her style. She has
a different approach than do you about telling these kids if they're going to be a success or not.
Simon: No, it's
her.
Interviewer: (laughs)
Simon: It's just one of those relationships. I mean, deep down I love her to
death. I honestly, honestly do and I say in the book at the end, I suddenly realized how integral she was to the show.
But the first couple of years when we began to work with each other, that was tough. I mean for her and for me. |
 Paula- "I'm in love with
Simon and I always will be"
Simon-"She's in love with me." [Hawaii Auditions Oct. 2003] |
| Simon: "Do I have to answer that?"...."A little bit" (responding to ET's Booker about
if he missed Paula; June 25, 2003 ) |
"I said to her afterwards 'I'd think you'd be very good in bed' and she winked at me...and
I thought that was quite sexy." [Simon co-hosting with Kelly Ripa, June 25, 2003]
"I actually like her now...I can change." [Simon about Paula, while co-hosting with Kelly
Ripa, June 25, 2003]
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 Simon: "I still don't understand a single word you say Paula."
Paula: "Then I'm
doing my job."
Simon: "It's all rubbish." (AI2 Finale May 21, 2003)
Simon: "She made me
do that scene 37 times." (Entertainment Tonight After the AI2 Finale about "The KISS")
Simon: "Yeah, we snogged." (Access Hollywood 5/21/03) |
"You know Paula, who I couldn't look at the beginning
of the series...I love her to death now. I hate to admit it but I do." [Simon, ET 05.21.03]
"In fact, I'm sounding like Paula Abdul" -Simon Cowell (AI2) |
"I just really, really love her" [Simon tells In Touch Magazine about his feelings for Paula, 04.28.03]
"I think she likes the fact that I'm a man of the world and that I stand up to her," says
Simon of Paula. "We're really similar- we both have the same sense of humor." [In Touch Magazine, 04.28.03]
"I still look at him as a puppy dog. He doesn't threaten me. He doesn't realize that I can
stand up for myself, and stand on my own." [Paula says of Simon, In Touch Magazine 04.28.03]
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"I'd run right into his arms, kiss him so much...all over" -Paula about Simon (Disco Results
Show 04-02-03)
"I'd kick Paula off because I'd kill Randy and eat him." -Simon Cowell responding to a question
if he were stranded on a boat, who would he kick off and why (March 26, 2003) |
| [2002] |
"The Yin to Simon's Yang, Paula Abdul" [Ryan Seacrest, Season 1 Group 2 Results]
"When he was a kid, his parents ran away from home'"- Paula Abdul about Simon (AI1) |
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