A brilliant smile, a brilliantine shine…is Simon's
rank among 2006's top 100 celebrities (thanks to four reality shows and launching the singing quartet Il Divo) loosening him up? He parts his hair down the center with the Biblical determination of parting the Red Sea, and changes up his wardrobe with a white button-front shirt. But he ends up baring more cleavage than Paula Abdul. All that's missing is a gold chain. E! devotes one of its "True ...
more A brilliant smile, a brilliantine shine…is Simon's
rank among 2006's top 100 celebrities (thanks to four reality shows and launching the singing quartet Il Divo) loosening him up? He parts his hair down the center with the Biblical determination of parting the Red Sea, and changes up his wardrobe with a white button-front shirt. But he ends up baring more cleavage than Paula Abdul. All that's missing is a gold chain. E! devotes one of its "True Hollywood Story" specials to Simon, but his Midas touch isn't working for other American reality productions: "American Inventor" lasts just one season on ABC, and Taylor Hicks wins the fifth "
Idol" season and will go on to become one of the lowest earning "Idols" in the show's history.
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