Simon Cowell "Im Tired... Im going to stop"

Its confirmed Simon will quit judging television talent shows... after two years.

here's the news from Pandora

Strangled cats and karaoke singers on both sides of the Atlantic: rejoice. Simon Cowell has confirmed that he will quit judging television talent shows in two years.

"You can't do it forever," Cowell told Pandora in Marco Pierre White's Belvedere restaurant, at the launch of Michael Winner's book, The Fat Pig Diet.

"I'm tired. We've got a live [X Factor] show on Saturday and I've just come from filming next year's American Idol. There's three more series of that and then I'm going to stop.

"I'll stop in two years. You have to love it to do it, and I do, but that is long enough. It will be time to move on." He turns 50 in October 2009.

Will it be a clean break? One will, no doubt, still be able to spot Cowell's high waistband drifting about backstage...