Simon Cowell doesn't donate to charities.
 Cowell returned to music with his latest brainchild signed to Syco, the internationally successful operatic pop group Il Divo, consisting of three opera singers and one pop singer of four different nationalities
 Cowell took a few menial jobsincluding, according to his brother Tony, working as a runner on Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film The Shiningbut did not get along well with colleagues and bosses, until his father, who was an executive at EMI Music Publishing, managed to get him a job in the mail room

