Simon Cowell on Not Having a Phone for 3 Years and the Future of 'AGT' in Quarantine (Exclusive)

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Even amid the coronavirus pandemic, Simon Cowell doesn't regret choosing to not have a cell phone.ET's Kevin Frazier spoke with the judge ahead of the show's premiere on Tuesday night on NBC, and he talked about how he's been doing in quarantine.

Cowell said it's been the longest stretch of time he's been home and acknowledged that at first it was difficult since he hasn't had a phone in three years.«It's very simple,» Cowell tells ET of the surprising choice. «It means you don't wake up to, like, 50 text messages you can't reply to.

And that's what happened one morning — I woke up and I've got 52 unread messages. And I thought, even if I reply to every one of those, I'm going to get another replying back, and then I'm going to get more