Taken in 1975 on the last day of term, the young star can be seen with long, side-swept hair almost covering his trademark frown as he poses for the picture at Dover College
This eerily familiar face is pictured on the last day of term at Dover CollegeWith a disdainful scowl and a withering glare, it is the eerily familiar face of a boy destined to become known on television as 'Mr Nasty'.
The Mail on Sunday has unearthed a never-before-seen school photograph of the X Factor creator from his time at Dover College in Kent. Cowell, now 64, left Dover College after getting two O-levels, the equivalent of GCSEs, and last year said that he 'hated' school, adding: 'I was thrown out of a lot of schools. I was dropped a year because I was so bad and I was in the same class as my younger brother and that was chaos.
'I found him amusing in a quirky way. He quite often had some wisecrack or other on the tip of his tongue. He was admired by some of the boys after he left school with his O-level or two because he got a job as a mail boy at some London record company.'Cowell started working at his father's record label EMI before being promoted to a talent scout.
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