Simon Cowell has said that he isn’t nasty and evil as some people would suggest.

Simon was interviewed by a panel of children as he was celebrating his appointment as the new patron of Children’s Hospices UK.

BBC Newsbeat reports:

Cowell said: “I think one of them asked if I wore Y-fronts or boxers or something. My favourite question was at the end – ‘Why are you evil?’.

“And the answer, ‘It’s more fun than being nice’. I’ve never honestly considered myself to be nasty. Whatever people think of me genuinely is sort of irrelevant. Judging a talent show is a job, this is the real world.”

On his new appointment he said: “[I wanted to give] a little bit back. Let’s be honest, I’ve got a lot out of what I’ve done basically from support from the public.

“They’ve given me an awful lot. I have a great life, I enjoy my jobs but everything that’s happened to me has happened through public support.”