English television personality, Simon Phillip Cowell is the founder and sole owner of the British entertainment company Syco and is the creator of The X Factor and Got Talent franchises.
Cowell formed a new company, Syco, in 2005. The company is divided into three units: Syco Music, Syco TV, and Syco Film. Cowell returned to music with his latest brainchild signed to Syco, the internationally successful operatic pop group Il Divo.
What religion is Simon Cowell?
The TV mogul is part Jewish, part Christian, but he doesn’t seem to be devoted to either. Cowell’s father was from a mostly Jewish family, though he did not discuss his ancestry with his children. Cowell’s mother was from a Christian background.
Cowell attended Radlett Preparatory School, Licensed Victuallers’ School in Ascot for one year, and the private Dover College, as did his brother, but left after taking GCE O levels. After some success in the 1980s and 1990s as a record producer, talent agent, and consultant in the UK music industry,
