Supermanager Wright: ‘I’m No Simon Cowell’

Johnny Wright, the man whose magic touch propelled Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake to stardom tells the Orlando Sentinel he failed his first Hollywood audition on the NBC reality show ‘Fame’. “The producers talked to about me being a judge, but they decided I was too mild-mannered,” write said. “If I don’t come across as the mean guy everybody talks about at the water cooler, I don’t care. I’m never going to tell people they don’t have a hope, they suck. Too many people said that to me — and look at me now.”