Cowell slams Spears' MTV performance
'X Factor' judge Simon Cowell has slated Britney Spears after her performance at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Cowell claimed that the mother-of-two wouldn't get past the first round of 'X Factor' auditions if she performed like that in front of the judges.
Cowell told The Sun: "If I had been looking after Britney I'd have taken one look at her in rehearsals and I wouldn't have allowed her on stage."
"It would have been worth pulling her off the bill - no matter what the cost - to save any chance she had of resurrecting her career. She wasn't ready for that show in every possible way."
"The song wasn't right, the image wasn't right and she just wasn't rehearsed," he said.
"If she had turned up and given that performance at 'The X Factor' auditions then I wouldn't have put her through to the next round."
