Idol host blasts 'pompous, arrogant' Cowell

Ryan Seacrest, the host of television hit American Idol, said the show’s lead judge Simon Cowell was arrogant and pompous and said things that are “too harsh”, a report said today.

But Seacrest added that British Pop Idol judge Cowell was a good friend and the ”most honest” of the show’s three judges, in an interview with the Straits Times newspaper in Singapore, where a local version of the programme is planned.