Simon Cowell started tongues wagging in the US yesterday when Howard Stern asked the Pop Idol judge "what he's worth". He joked he reckoned he was worth $10m – though subsequently added that doesn't mean he has anywhere near that kind of fortune in the bank.
The comments followed rumours regards how much Cowell and his fellow American Idol judges are demanding from Fox to appear on the third series of the hit show. Cowell alluded to the judges being on par with the cast of Friends. If the judges are on anything near the fees earned by the sitcom starts then that $10 million might not be too far from the truth - – the cast of Friends now get $1 million per show