Profiles: Sir Philip Green and Simon Cowell

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Job: Retail tycoon
Age: 57
Worth: £4.3 billion
Lives: Splits his time between a London hotel and a Monte Carlo penthouse
Personal life: Married to Christina; children are Chloe and Brandon.
Party lifestyle: For his son's bar mitzvah in 2005, he spent £4 million on a three-day event on the French Riviera. For his 50th birthday he flew 200 guests to Cyprus for a three-day toga party, with music by Tom Jones and Rod Stewart.
Business empire: Owns retailers including Bhs and the Arcadia Group, which includes Topshop, Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge and Wallis. He is Britain's ninth richest person. He owns 2,300 shops in the UK and controls 12 per cent of the UK clothing retail market, second only to Marks & Spencer. Knighted in 2006.

Simon Cowell

Job: TV producer and presenter
Age: 49
Worth: £112 million
Lives: Los Angeles
Personal life: Recently split from partner Terri Seymour after six years.
Party lifestyle: Frequent diner at The Ivy. Has also been spotted at Stringfellows and the Electric Birdcage.
Business interests: With Pop Idol, The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent, Cowell has confirmed his status as ITV's biggest star name. Has been tied to ITV in a three-year "golden handcuffs" deal worth about £20 million. An even bigger star in the US where he will be a judge on American Idol until 2010, earning a reported £20 million per series. His US hit, America's Got Talent, has been sold to 80 countries. Cowell earlier worked in the music industry, with artists such as Sinitta and Westlife.