Simon Cowell Returns as America’s Got Talent’s Newest Judge

After a nearly three-year absence from American television, Simon Cowell is making his grand comeback as a judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent—and he admits he is having more fun than ever. “Sometimes when I watch those American Idol clips, I do actually think I was just miserable!” Cowell says of the iconic show that introduced Americans to honest and blunt (and sometimes rude) judging style. “I felt I was almost becoming a parody of myself, and it was embarrassing. Now I find the bad acts just funny. I’m still the same person, but you’ll see me liking a lot more people.”