Simon Cowell’s new boyband set to drop first music video tomorrow simply days after the Netflix present they had been created on obtained scathing critiques
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Simon Cowell‘s newly formed boyband December 10 are set to drop their very first music video on Monday.
The seven-piece group shot to fame after appearing on his latest Netflix series The Next Act, which propelled the band into the spotlight under his management – despite being met with scathing reviews.
After the show aired, the music mogul officially brought the lads together and they’re now ready to make their debut.
Their cover of NSYNC’s Bye, Bye, Bye will premiere on YouTube at 4pm on December 15, according to The Sun.
The video features a full live acoustic performance filmed at Metropolis Studios – the same session briefly teased at the end of the six-part Netflix series.
December 10 is made up of Cruz, 19, Danny, 16, Hendrick, 19, John, 17, Josh, 17, Nicolas, 16, and Sean, 19.
Simon Cowell’s newly formed boyband December 10 are set to drop their very first music video on Monday
The seven-piece group shot to fame after appearing on his latest Netflix series The Next Act, which propelled the band into the spotlight under his management – despite being met with scathing reviews
The Netflix docuseries, which dropped on Wednesday, follows the X Factor tycoon’s nationwide search for a new pop act, as he resurrects the talent show auditions and bootcamps format from his prime.
The show’s synopsis reads: ‘Simon Cowell is looking for the next hit boy band. And he’s risking it all to find them.
‘Will these young singers prove he’s still got the Midas touch?’
Before filming, Simon made it clear he is actively focused on signing only new talent for his latest venture, despite Daniel already having a chance on another show.
The Britain’s Got Talent judge fears the UK is not finding enough breakthrough talent, saying record labels are not signing enough new stars, who face too much competition online.
Simon, who had global success with One Direction and Westlife, is determined to change that, and told the Daily Mail: ‘Right now record labels aren’t signing enough new talent.
‘So the amount of UK artists who are breaking worldwide has literally fallen off a cliff because I think there is too much competition online.
‘People don’t knock on your door saying, “I’ve got a new band”. It doesn’t happen. You’ve got to go out there yourself and do it. So that’s what we are doing.’
The video was filmed at the Metropolis studios, which was seen at the end of the six-part series
The Netflix docuseries, which dropped on Wednesday, follows the X Factor tycoon’s nationwide search for a new pop act, as he resurrects the talent show auditions and bootcamps format from his prime
‘As much as I love my job on TV, I miss where I started signing artists and working with bands,’ Simon says in the trailer. ‘There is a massive opportunity. I am going to find a new boy band.’
‘There’s so much at stake,’ he says. ‘There is a huge risk here. If this goes wrong, it will be “Simon Cowell has lost it.”’
Simon, who is worth an estimated £475million, is no stranger to scouting new talent and since 2001 has appeared as a judge on several music reality competition series, including Pop Idol, American Idol, Britain’s Got Talent, America’s Got Talent and The X Factor.
During its 14-year run, The X Factor changed the face of the British music industry, discovering some of the biggest names, including One Direction, Leona Lewis, Little Mix, JLS, and Olly Murs.
But amid dwindling viewing figures and allegations of mistreatment from past contestants, ITV announced in 2021 that there were no plans for a new series.
Simon will be hoping to emulate the success of his previous artists, who have broken records and sold millions of records worldwide.
Simon has mixed up the tried and tested TV formula by drip-feeding fans insight into his own life, shifting his relationships with fiancée Lauren Silverman and son Eric, 11, further into the spotlight.
Cameras follow the family from their vast west London home to their Barbados villa and $24million Malibu compound.
Whilst Simon Cowell’s TV project The Next Act is ostensibly about the music mogul’s search for a new boyband, the glimpses of his home life are the real scene stealers
The Netflix docuseries follows the X Factor tycoon’s nationwide search for a pop act but cannily Simon has also shown glimpses of his life with fiancée Lauren Silverman
Each home is a beacon of minimalism, thanks to Simon’s hatred of clutter, and cleanliness – he’s allergic to dust mites, whilst teams of housekeepers, drivers and chefs make sure the routine-obsessed star’s life runs like clockwork.
Lauren is heard saying in an early episode: ‘His routines drive me nuts but a leopard doesn’t change its spots does it?’
Simon’s strict diet is also on show in the series. He famously went on an extreme health kick after breaking his back in a 2020 bike accident.
Back then he claimed that dieticians told him his diet was ‘the worst they’d ever seen’ leading him to slash his calorie intake to fewer than 1,000 a day, alongside a new exercise regimen which demands 600 push ups daily.
Simon sticks to the same meals every day, including his favourite green, protein smoothies for breakfast and half a crumpet for lunch.
In the show he is seen commenting on Lauren’s plate of salad – prepared by Simon’s chef, Geoff – saying: ‘This is how differently we eat’ before buttering his crumpet, adding: ‘I have to eat half of this now and the other half for dinner.’
Simon’s habit of cutting his portions in half extends to beers. He drinks four 90-calorie beers a day, but pours half the beer out to make it a shandy.
His love of sleep and his five year health kick marry up as Simon revealed this week that he sits down for dinner at 4:30pm, has a late night then wakes at 10am so ‘I can go 17 hours without eating: Intermittent fasting’.
It comes after Simon Cowell: The Next Act was called ‘dated, derivative and as flat as his hairdo’ in a number of scathing reviews.
It comes after Simon Cowell: The Next Act was called ‘dated, derivative and as flat as his hairdo’ in a number of scathing reviews
Critics have accused the music mogul of ‘rehashing The X Factor for the billionth time’ with the brand new Netflix documentary.
Metro’s Jon O’Brien writes: ‘It’s been four years since The X Factor was finally put out of its misery and a good dozen since its halcyon days, a period in which pop music, and its star-making methods, have significantly moved on from the bog-standard TV talent show.
‘Unfortunately, no one seems to have told Simon Cowell.’
Meanwhile The Telegraph’s Anita Singh’s headline states: ‘Simon Cowell’s comeback series is as flat as his hairdo.’
She adds: ‘Netflix attempts to recapture that X Factor magic, but this vanity project feels dated and derivative.’
The Guardian’s Stuart Heritage describes the doc as ‘the billionth take on his one idea’.
He continues: ‘Now we know, for here comes the bait and switch. Even though it might be presented as a slice-of-life reality documentary, Simon Cowell: The Next Act is – wait for it – The X Factor. It’s literally just another bloody X Factor.
‘No, really. One minute Cowell is semi-candidly bickering with his partner, Lauren Silverman, the next he’s junked that entire facade to find a new boyband. He holds auditions.
‘He takes them to bootcamp. He uses pictures of their faces to decide who he wants to send home.
‘There are unbelievably weak sob stories (one contestant, and please ready the hankies for this, works at a Nando’s).
‘Short of Louis Walsh stumbling in to absent-mindedly take everything to deadlock, this is The X Factor. I cannot overstate this enough.
‘It’s Cowell’s one idea, for the billionth time, in slightly different clothes.’
