Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell

"Paula Abdul says she and Simon Cowell, who torments her on the set of 'American Idol,' are chummy in real life.
'Simon and I actually get along great,' the 44-year-old 'Idol' judge says in an interview in TV Guide magazine's March 19 issue. 'We have cultivated a fun relationship...He's actually become a really good friend.' Were they at first attracted to one another, as Cowell has suggested?
'Oh, puh-leez! He makes this stuff up,' Abdul says.
'He said: 'Paula, people want us to hook up so bad.''
'I said: 'That's disgusting.' He goes: 'Paula, I know you want me' and I go: 'Like a cold sore.'
'We have fun playing up the chemistry but there's also times when I would cross the other side of the street so I wouldn't have to look at him.' "