Simon Cowell‘s new Netflix docuseries, The Next Act, opens with the music mogul getting what his partner, Lauren Silverman, describes as “the longest haircut ever” inside their sprawling London home. Just when she thinks it’s finally over, an irritated Silverman, 48, walks back into the bathroom and asks Cowell, 66, why he’s getting his “makeup done too,” to which he deadpans, “To look handsome.” Stars — They’re Just Like Us, eh?

Sure, the six-episode show (out Wednesday, December 10) features Cowell jetting from a sun-kissed Barbados villa to his crystal-filled Malibu mansion and a beachfront Miami hotel, but even during luxurious pit stops, he’s as simple as they come. After all, the man’s been wearing his signature black T-shirt and jeans for two decades and counting!

“When I go to wo

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