Cowell To Be Honoured With Special Tv Bafta

SIMON COWELL will be presented with a special honour at next month’s (Jun10) British Academy (BAFTA) Television Awards.

The music mogul has been chosen by the Bafta committee to receive a trophy for his “outstanding contribution (to TV) and for his development of new talent.”

The 50 year old could take home two awards at the 6 June (10) event - his hit TV reality contest Britain’s Got Talent is nominated for Best Entertainment Programme.

It is the second special honour Cowell is set to receive in 2010 - he will also pick up an International Emmy award in November for having “reshaped 21st century television and music around the world.”

Cowell shot to fame in Britain as a judge on now defunct singing contest Pop Idol in 2001, before appearing on the panel of American Idol. He also created The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent, with the format for the shows being used around the world.