Not content with ruling the TV airwaves like some high-trousered despotic Svengali, Simon Cowell is moving into film, developing a musical biopic with Paramount Pictures and Relevant Entertainment.

The man the world loves to hate is to produce a film about opera singer Paul Potts, a mobile phone salesman who won the UK show Britain's Got Talent in 2007 and went onto sell three million copies of his debut album One Chance.

Cowell was a judge on the show when Potts took to the stage, and tells Daily Variety that he was not optimistic when he first saw the singer. "That particular day was one of the worst, the acts were just terrible, we were fed up and on comes this guy with a funny little suit and bad teeth who looked very nervous.

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