In a candid interview with 60 Minutes' Anderson Cooper on Sunday, American Idol's Simon Cowell opened up about coming under fire for his catty commentary each week on Fox' reality series. "I don't think I'm humiliating anybody," Cowell tells Cooper."Possibly [the contestants are] humiliating themselves." And while Mr. Nasty says he's "helping" the singers by hurling what some would call verbal assaults, he explained to Cooper that "No one is dragged into that audition room kicking and screaming." Calling to attention season six auditioner Kenneth Briggs, whom Cowell said looked like a "bush baby," Cooper asked the judge if he believed his commentary to be hurtful....
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