Simon Cowell's Make Up Trick  5/21/08

American Idol judge Simon Cowell used to plaster his face in his mother's make-up when he was a kid - in order to get days off school.

The music mogul admits he always hated school and went to extreme lengths in order to stay at home.

Cowell used to fool his parents into thinking he was sick by covering himself in a pale foundation and pretending to be ill. He says, "I didn't like school so I had a trick - I would put my mother's white make-up on.

"I'd get a cup of tea, put it on my head and tell my parents, 'Not feeling well, feel my temperature.'"