Simon Cowell's Secret Past As A Furry

Don't worry, America. We here at Hey Look, Animals! are working overtime to make sure that you won't go American Idol newsless in the agonizing gap between the end of the season and Adam Lambert's coming-out issue of Rolling Stone. Above is 27-year-old footage of Simon Cowell dressed as a giant blue dancing doggy superhero named Wonderdog. Cowell is much funnier on AI destroying dreams than he is on a TV dance party dishing out dog puns.

At the time, Cowell was a young record producer who bought the rights to a German dance song, credited it to "Wonderdog", and appeared in a disturbing furry getup on British TV to promote it. Suddenly Bikini Girl doesn't seem quite so desperate, does she?

Want to hear the rest of Wonderdog's hit single? No? Here it is anyway, in a homemade YouTube video, featuring footage from old Dogville shorts. This actually made it to #31 on the UK charts. Personally, we'd prefer an old-fashioned squirrel song any day of the week.