Camilla Long has bravely risked trouble from Max Clifford. My old friend Simon - sadly silent since Max told him to regard me as a leper - appears to have suffered from the "be careful what you wish for - you may get it" syndrome. Now famous, rich and clearly exhausted and miserable; global fame has affected him badly. He probably hasn't noticed but the clues are there (he can't sleep). It's almost ten years since he sweetly and bravely became my Bail Bond and risked £50,000 on my honesty. A genuine, decent, honourable friend and a superb human being with a great sense of humour and set of moral values. Has success damaged him? Read and decide for yourself.

His latest outburst about X FACTOR shows him to be seriously losing touch with the real world.

Now he wants his contestants to behave badly ? They are going to be holed up in a house in Mill Hill near my office and locals hope the scenes from Golders Green last year ( road blocks atc ) are not repeated in this leafy part of North London.

Cowell should have quite whilst he was ahead - staying too long ruins a reputation. Noel Edmonds did it with house party etc. Eventually nothing is new - and by then the public see it as a joke.

X Factor was great. But the WAS is the word. It is tired and over - last year proved that when RAGE showed that even the record buying public had had enough.

Simon Cowell should have closed it down there and then saying it had run its course and come up with a NEW idea. But perhaps he has not got the talen to re-invent himself. That is why people like CLIFF and your goodself will always be genuine superstars because you adapt and change. Sadly Simon seems a stick in the mud who will sink with his ship.

2004 article about "Simon's Shame"
www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/ar...99/Simons-shame.html

So who do you think has the moral high ground/

MAX CLIFFORD who invents stories and creates lies on a weekly basis

or

SIMON COWELL who creates TV shows which millions of people have enjoyed.


As we have seen with TABLOID fuelled allegation stories - it is the money that attracts weirdos to make allegations against Celebrities. David Beckham is finding out now.

I would suggest that any "Allegation" that starts as a newspaper story is unlikely to be true because a REAL case would be taken to the Police first not to the press. It shows that the most important thing for the alleger is the financial side not getting any justice.