American Idol is set to return to our screens tonight ... His attempts to impress the judges did anything but, and Simon Cowell brutally mocked the-then University of California, Berkeley, civil ...

Jessica Vosk can still vividly remember her American Idol audition — and Simon Cowell’s less than complimentary feedback. “I walked in. I sang Heart’s ‘Alone.’ Everybody knows that song.

Brian Dunkleman, the former American Idol co-host ... how mean [Judge Simon Cowell] was. He was hated. He got death threats in England. He comes here, and everybody loves the guy,” Dunkleman ...