Even the King of Mean comes down with the occasional cold: Simon Cowell pulled out of filming this week for his UK talent series Britain’s Got Talent after falling ill with the flu.
Cowell was due to sit on the show’s judging panel on Wednesday, but show producers had to call in a replacement so the outspoken music mogul could recover from a bad bout with influenza.
A source tells Britain’s Daily Mail: “Simon has been terribly sick thisweek. He has not stopped for months and it has all caught up with him. He just needs some rest and he’ll be as good as new. He has been under the weather for the past week and it was clear that he could not join the judges today.”
Doctors have ordered Simon to rest at home before returning to work later this month.