Siobhan Magnus Calls Out Simon Cowell: “He didn’t care…It was offensive”

By On 06/28/2012 · 128 Comments · In Ace Young, Alexis Grace, American Idol, Diana DeGarmo, Siobhan Magnus

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Ah ha ha ha. Siobhan Magnus totally calls out Simon Cowell for sleep walking through her season of American Idol in a recent interview with a Branson radio station. The sixth place finisher was a finalist on Season 9, Simon’s last before he quit to mount X Factor for FOX.

While Season 8 Idol, Alexis Grace (She and Scott Savol were part of the interview, promoting their six week residency at the Andy William Theater) Siobhan describes a very different experience.

“I was on the last season that had Simon,” explains Siobhan. “And it was so obvious to us that mentally, he was already moved on to the next show.”

Siobhan explains futher, “He was not present for us. He didn’t care. He wouldn’t even watch the show most of the time! He’d be sitting there leaning back and puffing his cheeks out like ‘Am I done yet?’” Siobhan looks at her watch to illustrate Simon’s boredom.

“It was offensive,” Siobhan reveals. “It was really hard.”

She then goes on to recount how all of Simon’s critiques of her were about her clothes.

Simon’s horrible attitude during Season 9 is not news to Idol watchers. But it’s interesting to hear how the contestants who had to endure his bad attitude felt about it. Siobhan used the pronoun “we” often enough to indicate there were other cast members who share her opinion.

Sharing the bill with Siobhan, Scott, and Alexis, are engaged lovebirds, Ace Young and Diana Degarmo who discuss wedding planning in a separate interview.

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  • http://twitter.com/LindsayKempFan Not fit to print

    The other judges could have done something, I guess, but each of them may have felt it wasn’t worth the grief. Simon isn’t a very nice man. I watched the Larry King interview of the Season 9 judges and it was clear that they were all a bit gun-shy of Simon. Whenever a quesion was asked they all looked at him first to see if he wanted to answer. Only Kara visibly bridles and she was seen a b*tch for doing so.

    IMHO, Simon sabotaged Idol by giving it 10% in Season 9. It may not have been deliberate but he was visibly bored and it infected the show.The contestant mix was wrong – not enough get-up-and-goers – but the contestants individually were quite interesting.

    Lee wouldn’t have made it to Top 5 in most seasons, though.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WVSQA64BLZWH44DKM3U34JT4RU Sylvia Taylor

    Simon wanted someone bad to win during Season 9 as a parting shot to American Idol. Who really has more of a complaint than Siobhan is Alexis Grace. If they did not let Kris Allen cheat with the Arkansas power texting Alexis would have been in the Top Ten as she deserved to be and would have got to go on tour. 

  • http://twitter.com/KariannHart Kariann Hart

    I was excited viewing the season.  I thought for sure Siobhan and Crystal would be the final two.  Casey did a nice job, too.  The tour concert was soooo good!

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