Simon Cowell: Cee-Lo Green Didn't Turn Me Down

Attempting to clear the air about some recent rumors, Simon Cowell opened up about meeting with Cee Lo Green and not offering him the judge position on ?The X Factor.?
The former ?American Idol? judge, who attended first round auditions of the show with Paula Abdul on Sunday (May 8), told, "I had a meeting with him [Cee Lo]. I just said hello. I didn't offer him the job. The next thing I'm reading that he turned me down. We saw tons of people; nobody turned us down."
Meanwhile, Green told press last month that he had been offered a role on the show, but turned it down because he was "unfamiliar with the concept of it."
Cee Lo added, "I knew the name and I knew the parties involved, but as an enterprise, I didn't know what made it distinctive enough."

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