How much did Simon Cowell get offered to judge a couple having sex?

Forget judging “America’s Got Talent.”Simon Cowell once got offered $150K to judge a random couple having sex — but the outspoken TV personality turned it down.Cowell, 65, reminisced about the bizarre ordeal on Wednesday’s episode of the “How to Fail” podcast while addressing other odd offers he’s been presented with over the years.“People used to ask me to be rude to them,” the competition judge said, admitting he’d shut those requests down — but his refusals didn’t stop there.“Then, one time, I was in a restaurant and this guy comes up to me and he said, ‘I love your show.

Would you take a picture?’ [I say], ‘Sure,'” Cowell explained, revealing the stranger then introduced his wife and asked the “American Idol” alum if he’d “judge [them] having sex.”He thought the couple was joking, but he quickly found out they were serious.“I’m, like, ‘Are you winding me up?’ They went, ‘No, we’ll pay you,’” the star recalled.Cowell confessed that he marinated on the idea, especially when the couple told him how much they were willing to pay.“[I said], ‘Well, how much?’ It was actually a lot of money.

I thought, ‘Do I? No, I just can’t do it,'” he said of the moral dilemma before revealing they offered him a whopping $150K to watch them get down in the bedroom.“It was just so bizarre,” he shared of their proposal.Cowell explained that despite his mean TV persona, he actually enjoys random conversation with strangers — but only sometimes.“That’s something I really have enjoyed, though, weirdly.

I am very shy, like, I can’t go to a pre-party.It’s my worst thing in the world, making small talk with someone I don’t know.

If we have a common subject, I’m pretty good, but years ago, if I had to go to a party … and had to talk to people, it [was] torture,” he stated on the podcast.His fiancée, Lauren Silverman, however, is the professional of small talk, according to Cowell.“Now,�...