Gareth Varey was recorded saying that he knew 54-year-old Simon ‘had slept with men’.
Now though, the N-Dubz singer’s assistant has retracted his comments, saying that he must have been ‘very drunk’.
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In a statement, Gareth said: “On 10 May 2013 in the course of seeking to entrap Tulisa, Mazher Mahmood supplied Tulisa, me and others with a lot of alcohol.
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“I can no longer recall all of the details of the evening but I have listened to the recording made by Mahmood. I was clearly very drunk.
“At some point and utterly out of the blue Mahmood asked me if Simon Cowell was gay. I said he was. This is not true. I do not know why I said it, but assume it is because I was so drunk and felt I was giving Mahmood the type of information he was seeking. I am very sorry for this.”
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Simon himself hit back at the recording and the rumours, with a spokeperson for him saying: “In 2014 the question of whether someone is or is not gay is antiquated (As is happens he isn’t, though if he were, he would simply have said so).
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“However, the issue was the false suggestion made by Mr Varey that Simon – who is renowned for his honesty and candidness – had thus not been truthful in the public arena and this is what we have been obliged to clarify.”
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Tulisa was appearing in court charged for being concerned with the supply of Class A drugs, after Mahmood, posing as someone else, recorded her saying she could broker an £800 cocaine deal.
However on Monday the judge ‘threw the case out of court’, and said that there were “strong grounds to believe” Mahmood had lied at a previous hearing.