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Got Talent bigwig Simon Cowell claims to be a top talent-spotter. But surely the biggest mistake of his career was passing on Kylie Minogue when the then Australian soap actress was offered to the record executive at a bargain price. ‘Every single label we went to passed on Kylie,’ recalls producer Pete Waterman. ‘Everybody said you couldn’t turn a TV star into a pop star, they flat-out refused. We offered I Should Be So Lucky to Simon Cowell for £500 and he turned us down. That’s why we had to start our PWL label — to put the records out.’ Perhaps Kylie was ultimately the lucky one.