Simon Cowell has launched a nationwide search for a new boyband, saying he is 'praying' he finds a group as talented as One Direction, who he formed on The X Factor
Simon Cowell is on the hunt for a new band to equal One Direction 's global success, claiming he's "praying" he can discover similar raw talent.
Speaking to the PA news agency, Simon said: "I would pray to find a band as good as One Direction and to find the records as good as they made, there are so many factors involved to make a band successful all over the world." Ahead of nationwide auditions later this month, Simon donned a pair of dungarees and scaled a ladder armed with a brush and bucket of poster paste to erect a billboard in London reading: “Simon needs you. Future megastars wanted for new boyband. No time wasters.”
The huge success of One Direction has the TV judge optimistic about what he can find next, as he says "there has never been a better time to be in a band right now." "You have to make an awful lot of decisions and a lot happens which we've never really showed. So I thought, apart from anything else, it will be really interesting to document the process and then hope also along the way that we get lucky enough to find the right people, because if we don't get enough people turn up we are screwed."
"If you really honestly believe that just by posting your videos on TikTok or whatever, you're going to suddenly get a global career, well buy a lottery ticket, because the market is so crowded right now with so many people trying to get attention.
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