Simon Cowell wades bare-foot into a Spice Girl spat

SIMON COWELL took the laid-back look to the extreme — when he decided not to wear any shoes.
Our thoughts go out to the music mogul’s poor tootsies after he enjoyed a bizarre barefoot stroll through the streets of Los Angeles.
Cowell turned heads at the weekend when he opted against wearing any footwear while shopping in Beverly Hills with his partner Lauren Silverman, 40. Maybe he was off to a shoe shop?
The 57-year-old cut a casual figure in a white tee and a pair of patterned shorts — making a change from his usual ‘uniform’ of a buttoned-down shirt and bootleg jeans.
Meanwhile, Cowell may have put his foot in it with a former Spice Girl after last night’s episode of The X Factor.
The father-of-one laid into contestant and wannabe Posh lookalike Queen A, when he cattily remarked: ‘Well, you sound like Victoria…’
Author: Tom Stichbury