Simon Cowell wants to tear down that bitch of a J Lo house: “‘Simon knows what he wants and as soon as he saw J-Lo’s house, he had to have it,’ our real-estate spy tells us. But it would appear that even Jennifer Lopez’s plush pad simply wasn’t good enough. When it comes to houses, money is no object for Simon so he hasn’t batted an eyelid at spending an extra £3million knocking the place down and rebuilding from scratch. He has certain ideas on what he wants it to look like… and J-Lo’s minimalist approach wasn’t it.”
, in which he reconciles the athletic side of his persona with the gay activist. He tells the Montreal Mirror: “Someone would come up to me and say, ‘You’re a hero, you’re doing all these amazing things!’ I would walk away, and I would think to myself, ‘Would you still think this if you really knew me?’ I felt very dishonest about the double life I was leading….I see a time when someone in a team sport could come out. I think it will happen, probably in the next five years. When that barrier is first broken, it’ll be a big deal. But by the third time, it will no longer be. In my day, you stayed closeted because you risked losing everything—your coach, your job, your financial backing. In 2006, being gay simply doesn’t mean the same level of public disdain that it did.”