Simon Cowell Splits with Girlfriend Terri Seymour

"They broke up about a month ago. It was Terri's idea, not Simon's," Cowell's rep, Max Clifford told Us on Saturday. "Simon is doing alright, but they were together a long time and so you can understand that it's going to be a strange time."

Clifford added: "It was something that was coming, so it wasn't a shock or a surprise."

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The pair, who began dating in 2002, remain friendly.

"They have so much history," Clifford said. "They spoke a week ago and were on the phone to each other yesterday."

Meanwhile, Cowell is keeping busy with work.

"He has so much on, with a new Idol, Britain's Got Talent and the X-Factor so he'll be concentrating on [that]," Clifford said.

Any chance of a reconciliation?

"I don't know, only Simon and Terri know that. You should speak to her," Clifford said.

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In an interview with London's Daily Mail in 2007, the American Idol judge, 48, revealed he has no plans to ever settle down.

"[My mother] can see this is my life, and I'm happy with it," he told the Daily Mail. "She has her grandchildren, courtesy of my brother Nicholas. Of course she always thought she would talk me round, but in the past few years I think she has realized this is how it is."

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