[Kaz]

Simon Cowell has launched a stinging attack on Big Brother, labelling the stars of the hit Channel 4 series "bad actors."

Speaking at the launch of the second series of Pop Idol, Cowell argued that the latest series of Big Brother - which was won on Friday by Scot Cameron Stout - was full of people seeking instant fame.

He said: "Big Brother is not reality any more. You don't get 10 normal people to do it. You get 10 crap actors in the house."

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The rest of the article - CLICK HERE to read it - is mainly concerned with the lauch of Pop Idol 2.

Who cares what Slimy Simon thinks anyway . . . . . he backed the wrong contestant during the first Pop Idol, didn't he?

[kaphc]

Well sadly for him, he obviously didn't realise that there were 12 housemates (then went up to 13!) in BB4 not 10!

I think he has a point if you look at the amount of housemates this year that are trying to get into media jobs. On the Little Brother's reunion show, a lot of them said that there dream job would involve something to do with working on TV.

[James]

On Fame Academy the other night Robin Gibb didn't seem to want to criticise anyone. Probably because he's afraid of harming his reputation.

Simon Cowell is the opposite, he made a name for himself by being 'nasty'.

[Romantic Old Bird]

Well, I think Simon was particularly criticising what it has become, not what it started out to be.

I think BB1 was full of curious and rather naive people, BB2 had one or two looking for fame or fortune, the rest for a laugh.

BB3 had to bemore about fame, they really knew what they were going in for

BB4 was, I believe ALL about going in for fame, no matter what any of them say.

In that respect, he is right.

Simon Cowell makes a fortune out of people disliking him, but I do respect him for his honesty on things like Pop Idol and particularlt American Idol. The rest were saccharine. And if he got it wrong, he did admit it.