Simon Cowell reveals fan’s truly wild sex request

The X Factor judge has made a bizarre confession about the staggering amount of money he was offered to watch fans have sex.

Forget judging America’s Got Talent.

Simon Cowell once got offered $US150,000 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.”

Simon Cowell made the bizarre confession on the How To Fail podcast. Picture: Cameron Smith/Getty Images

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 preparty. 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 fiancee, Lauren Silverman, however, is the professional of small talk, according to Cowell.

Cowell ultimately turned down the couple. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

The TV judge with his fiancee, Lauren Silverman. Picture: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images

“Now, Lauren [Silverman, my fiancee] is brilliant in these positions. I’m hopeless. Joan Collins had a birthday party and I said to Lauren, ‘I’ll go, but we have to time it ‘cause there will be a horrible stand-up, pre-drinks [that] I can’t do,” he continued.

Cowell popped the question to Silverman in December 2021 after eight years of dating.

The couple shares one child, son Eric, who turned 11 in February on Valentine’s Day.

Cowell made headlines months ago when he broke his silence on Liam Payne’s death after the One Direction alum’s fatal fall off his hotel balcony in October.

The X Factor UK judge reunited with the boy group he created — including members Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik — at Payne’s funeral.

Following Payne’s shocking death, Cowell released an emotional statement.

“You never really know how you feel about someone until a moment like this happens,” he wrote on Instagram.

“Liam, I am devastated. Heartbroken. And I feel empty. And I want you to know how much love and respect I have for you. Every tear I have shed is a memory of you.”

This story originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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