Simon Cowell has revealed his one “remorse” about creating One Route.
The music mogul and TV persona has opened up in regards to the one mistake he made whereas managing the previous British boy band.
Throughout Monday’s episode of The Diary of a CEO podcast, Simon mirrored on his biggest profession achievements, together with the formation of One Route on The X Think about 2010.
The X Issue creator and choose fashioned the band – made up of Harry Kinds, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne – after all of them auditioned as solo artists.
Through the podcast episode, Simon instructed host Steven Bartlett that he regretted not proudly owning the band’s identify.
“The one factor I remorse is, I ought to have stored the identify,” the 64-year-old admitted.
The entrepreneur then added that the What Makes You Stunning singers have the rights to the identify.
“That is the issue,” he continued. “Might have made an animation, or no matter, however if you give an artist the identify, it is not yours – and that is my solely remorse.”
He then jokingly addressed the singers, “Should you’re listening, I am going to purchase it again from you.”
Simon went on to clarify that Harry, Liam, Zayn, Louis and Niall have equal possession of the identify.
“If one of many band members, for no matter cause, says they do not wish to tour, it will possibly cease the others touring,” he mentioned. “If it was me who owned the identify, it would not be an issue. I could be very naive at instances, and that was me being very, very naive. So subsequent time, that shall be a part of the deal – I’ve to personal the identify.”
One Route went on an indefinite hiatus in 2016 and Simon “doubts” they are going to ever reunite.
Final week, the music mogul launched a expertise search to discover a new boyband.
