Simon Fuller

Simon Fuller is a British entertainment entrepreneur and talent manager who created the Idol television franchise and managed artists including the Spice Girls.

Idol (franchise): A global television competition franchise created by Simon Fuller, beginning with Pop Idol in the United Kingdom. Fuller’s most influential format turned auditions and audience voting into an exportable television business.
Brighton: A coastal city in East Sussex, England. Fuller was born in Brighton in 1960.
Victoria Beckham: An English singer, fashion designer, and former member of the Spice Girls. As Posh Spice, Beckham was one of the artists Fuller managed in the group.
Reality television: A television genre presenting unscripted situations, competitions, or participants’ real lives. Idol helped make audience-participation competitions a central commercial form of reality television.
Spice Girls: A British pop group that became an international success in the 1990s. Fuller managed the group during its rise and helped shape its commercial strategy.
Chrysalis Records: A British record label founded in 1968 by Chris Wright and Terry Ellis. Fuller began his music-industry career working for Chrysalis Records.
Simon Cowell: A British television producer and music executive known for judging talent competitions. Cowell became a prominent judge on the Idol programs built from Fuller’s format.
Television format: A repeatable set of rules and production elements licensed for versions in different markets. Fuller’s franchise showed how a television format could travel across national boundaries.
S Club 7: A British pop group whose members starred in television series and released successful pop music. Fuller developed the group as a combined music and television property.
Madonna: An American singer, songwriter, and performer whose career spans several decades. Fuller worked with Madonna in the 1980s while developing his music-management career.

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Talent showRelated: Pop Idol became a model for later televised singing competitions.