“Simon Cowell was talking about doing a show and everyone in the business, he kind of started approaching us, and we were like… ‘No – that’s a terrible idea,” Fatboy Slim told for “Digital Spy.”
“The good thing about dance music is that it grows organically,” the DJ stated. “It’s not something that can be scripted or transported into a TV studio. I get offered loads of TV shows and they’re like, ‘Can you perform for five minutes?’ But DJ-ing takes two hours and an audience. It’s not like you can go out there and sing your latest song. Because of that, it will always remain slightly outside the mainstream,” Fatboy Slim explained.
The DJ, whose real name is Norman Cook, also discovered he gets a lot of reality show offers and that he is not a huge fan of this kind of television.
“I’ve been offered everything from the family tree one to the jungle to ‘Strictly’. They ask me to do it every year, because I kind of know them through Zoe, my wife. A – my approach to dancing is somewhat more freestyle than ‘Strictly’, and B – the whole reality TV thing doesn’t do it for me.”
“Some of them I like watching, but I wouldn’t want to be in them. When ‘Big Brother’ first came out, me and Zoe were like, ‘Oh, I’d love to go in there and find out where you go to in your head.’ But what I wouldn’t want is for it to be filmed and shown to everyone else. All your cracks come out,” said Norman.
Hats off to Fatboy Slim. It is good to know there is at least one person in the business who doesn’t want and need to crawl up Simon Cowell’s behind. Kudos.
