Christina Aguilera Calls Simon Cowell a Dick

By On 10/25/2012 · 44 Comments · In American Idol, Christina Aguilera, Simon Cowell, The Voice

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The Voice coach, Christina Aguilera conducted a Keynote Q&A at the Billboard/Hollywood Reporter Film & TV Conference on Thursday. Here’s what she had to say about Simon Cowell and American Idol:

Aguilera confessed she hasn’t seen much of any of the singing competition shows — including her own. “I’ve not actually seen a full episode of any of the other music shows. I saw the commercials early on of American Idol of Simon being a dick. I was like, ‘Man, that’s not what it’s about!’ I didn’t want to treat people like that. I wanted to do The Voice to show that we can be positive. We don’t have to knock people down.” Which isn’t to say she was knocking American Idol altogether.

“Jennifer Hudson came from American Idol and went on to do Dreamgirls and won an Oscar,” she pointed out. “I know we all have different formats. I don’t even watch my own show: I tape it, I’m out. Time to be mommy and time to work on my record and of course invest time in my team, picking songs. I juggle a lot.”

Oh geez. As if Christina has never knocked anyone down. Her digs at former Disney pal, Tony Luca, was worse than anything Simon has ever said to a contestant. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be dissed straight up than passively aggressively.

She also had some colorful opinions on bloggers and the tabloid press:

“Now everyone is a critic,” she said with a smile, on the subject of the tabloid press and online bloggers. “I don’t read blogs. It’s just God-knows-who in Buttf— wherever writing hate sh–. You can’t take it seriously. I’m sure you’ve all been hated on at some point by buttf— people.”

“It’s real talk today,” she said at one point to applause.

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  • chillj

    Most people on television look cheap; it is a job requirement.

  • chillj

    She is right to not read blogs.  People are horribly critical, and many public figures who do read blogs are devastated.  I don’t know exactly what there was between Tony Lucca and Xtina, but I’m going to reserve judgment until I do.  simon is a whole different animal; he has very little redeeming social value.

  • Jazz_11

    “I agree with Christina. I much prefer The Voice to the X-Factor. I don’t like some of her outfits, but I am looking for talented contestants..”

    This yes the Voice has some talented contestants, but there are a lot of talented contestants on the XFactor as well. After the show they look doing better than the Voice winners or runner ups. I prefers shows like AI & XFactor where the A&R exectives get involved, because they follow up with contestants they want to sign.  
     

  • Jazz_11

    We’ve seen a lot of cleavage in the industry, but you can see different images presented, by Christina Aguilera & Britney or Biyonce or Rihanna etc. It depends on the image they want public to see and public can see that; what kind of image that Christina wanted us to see few years ago when she & Britney’re competting for public attention after they’re out of their Disney World LOL.

  • Jazz_11

    We’ve seen a lot of cleavage in the industry, but you can see different images presented, by Christina Aguilera & Britney or Biyonce or Rihanna etc. It depends on the image they want public to see and public can see that; what kind of image that Christina wanted us to see few years ago when she & Britney’re competting for public attention after they’re out of their Disney World LOL.

  • Jazz_11

    “Most people on television look cheap; it is a job requirement.”

    Most is more than half, I’d say very bad generalization.

  • http://twitter.com/cara_lee pj

    I don’t know if the Xtina/Luca stuff was worse than anything Simon has ever said.  I think his comments about Mandisa were terrible.   I will also say that he is more consistently a dick than she is bitchy.  That Tony Lucca thing seemed to be a personal one-off situation, and not her usual MO.

    On the whole, she gives way better advice than Simon ever has.  When Xtina tells you less is more, you KNOW you have a problem.

    ETA: And Simon’s bush baby comment? No way was that less bad than her treatment of Luca.

  • Nedsdag

    Simon’s a dick?

    In other news, water is wet and the sky is blue.

  • usedtobelucy

    I’m guessing that both of them think that talking smack, being bitchy and flaunting some lowest-common-denominator sexuality is part of the entertainment package that their employers are paying them well for. They’re probably both right. heh

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/JC5VIWKY7SZ67OVWR2ISVCWYKY Brian

    I guess she is right about blogs talking crap about her.

  • http://twitter.com/happylittlefish Amy Beth

    IRL, a record company executive wouldn’t waste any breath telling a bad singer they sounded like strangled cats. They’d just say sorry, no thanks. That’s if they even heard them in person. More likely, they’d just put their demo in the “no” pile.

    That’s what Christina was reacting to, that Simon didn’t just say no, he went out of his way to insult the “no”s.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XDQP2Y46M5B3OHOKALDDGDHQCM Leandro

    LOL;

  • waitingforthe1

    Simon is a dick and Christina is a tramp.

    What makes her a tramp?  that she dares to own her sexuality and isn’t going to dumb herself down to fit into societies idea of what is proper for a female?  I’ve followed Christina for years and her personal life has never been in the gossip rags.  She’s been married once and other than that I’ve never heard of her dating life. 

    I find it very offensive to say a woman is a tramp just because she dresses provocatively and doesn’t put on a fake “nice girl” persona. 

  • Christopher Auyeung

    At least Simon has helped people achieve successful careers after his shows. I think that’s more than compensated for being snarky and mean in the name of good TV. People’s feelings got hurt, and they got over it. Two seasons of the Voice and whose lives have been changed? Exactly.

  • Mateja Praznik

     I think the lives of the 4 The Voice coaches have been changed. Or better said, their careers flourished.

  • roarpen

     ”have  u just  come from the 19th century or r u just an asshole?” LMAO – take your pick! I stand by my assertion that she is a skank. But I find the response very amusing.

  • glennethph

    I kinda have to love the hypocrisy of it all, she has the nerve to call out Simon when she’s no angel herself.

  • roarpen

      Taylor 20 hours ago in reply to roarpen
    “Eh,
    they all do the push-up bra/plunging neckline look. That would make
    Britney, Mariah, JLo and Nicki tramps right along with XTina.” <- no argument from me here – although I think Jlo has actually toned it down and is classier. I will admit I'm a snob – they are trashy – imho of course. I don't consider dressing like a hooker "empowering" and "owning your sexuality." It's just dressing like a hooker. Too bad they are role models – they look like total skanks to me.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YRZ4ZGB4QBWUETLKEZH4TFHWXY Sigh…

    Let me get this straight. Simon has had a rep for being overly harsh for over a decade, and when a female celebrity calls him out for something people have been saying for over decade, she gets called worse for pointing out the boys’ club support for the subpar Luca? I don’t recall any personal attacks but somehow drawing attention to him using his showbiz buddies is worse than attacking contestants, women in particular, on their looks? Really?!

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