Friday, 18 May 2007

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Simon Cowell: Grease is a flop

Music guru admits his own shop deserved to be trashed

Simon Cowell has confessed that his latest reality TV show Grease Is The Word is a disaster.

And he says he agrees with critics for slating the programme.

'Grease Is The Word is not going as well as I had hoped,' he told Broadcast magazine. 'It has been slaughtered by the critics - and rightly so. It is far too similar to our other formats.'

The ITV show, which aims to find the new Sandy and Danny to star in a West End production of Grease, pulls in around four million viewers. It is being trashed in the ratings by BBC1's Any Dream Will Do which has six million viewers.

But speaking last night Simon admitted the show had grown on him since he made those comments.

'Initially I was not crazy about the show, but by episode three I got into it,' he told The Sun. 'The judges are great and I've warmed to the talent.'