Simon Cowell to produce ‘Billy Elliot’ style musical on life of Opera singer Paul Potts

Simon Cowell is set to produce a film about the life of one of his proteges.

The film will be based on the overnight success of Opera tenor Paul Potts.

(Read here)

Okay … maybe one little comment …

How appropriate. Because everyone knows Simon Cowell is the true judge of operatic talent.

Sigh.

Okay … maybe one more comment …

Turning this particular opera star’s story into a musical seems, somehow, appropriate.

Okay … one final comment …

This is all a joke, right? Is this an Onion feature?

(I think I’d better go hide somewhere now, because I’m sure I’m gonna get in trouble for this.)