5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Simon Cowell is commonly listed at 5 ft 9 in (175 cm).
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Simon Cowell’s 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) is about average for a US man: about 49 in 100 US men are shorter.
Simon Cowell is in the middle of the 38 television presenters we have heights for: Richard Osman (6 ft 7 in) stands 10 in (25.7 cm) taller and Jason Acuña (4 ft 0.5 in) is 1 ft 8.5 in (52 cm) shorter.
Also listed at 5 ft 9 in: Cat Deeley and Tom Bergeron.
A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Photo: Alison Martin of SimonCowellOnline.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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