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"I remember Simon Cowell was there and he said, 'You're the band, I'm signing you to RCA Records on a five-album deal, this is happening very soon," Scott told journalist Michael Cragg in his book about the 2000s pop era, Reach For The Stars.

In the recent BBC documentary Boybands Forever, Cowell cited Five as the band that "got away", saying they had come tantalisingly close to becoming a major act in the US.

Amelia Cutten, 40, a behavioral health counselor at UC Santa Cruz, said she and about a dozen other counselors and psychologists at the Cowell Student Health Center struggle to keep up with large caseloads.

The podcast spoke to those at the heart of operations, including team leaders Andrea Stella and Zak Brown at McLaren, Mike Krack and Andy Cowell at Aston Martin and drivers Norris, Oscar Piastri, double world champion Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll.

The Reading Rights Summit will also hear from fellow authors Cressida Cowell and Michael Rosen, two of his predecessors as children's laureate.