Ant and Dec’s Idol Audition Fools Simon Cowell

Pop Idol presenters Ant and Dec got one over on Pop Idol’s ‘Mr Nasty’ Simon Cowell – by auditioning for the US version of the show, ‘American Idol’, in disguise. They performed a cringe making rendition of Paula Abdul’s ‘Opposites Attract’, then launched into a dance routine so bad that Simon finally started to smell a rat. Ant said, “Simon said afterwards he’d thought ‘hey, this guy looks a bit like Ant’, but never thought it would be us – until we started dancing like loons and then I think he sussed it.”