Simon CowellSimon Cowell has called Britney Spears and Robbie Williams self-indulgent for checking into their exclusive rehab clinics.

Britney is currently receiving treatment at Promises Center in Malibu while Robbie checked into The Meadows clinic in Arizona last month.

Simon said recently: “This whole thing is a total indulgence. Britney and Robbie need to get a grip.”

“I don’t know what’s going on in Britney’s head but my attitude is I couldn’t care less. She should go back and live with her mum for six months.”

“I went to a deprived part of the world recently… It really opened my eyes. You can feel sorry for yourself over the smallest things, but then you look at the world and you think, ‘I’ve got nothing to complain about.’”

“So when I hear about the Robbies and the Britneys going to into rehab, I think, ‘I’ll tell you what rehab is. Go to where I just went, where people are really suffering and then you’ll see just how good your life is.’”

“Pop stars these days just get too much too soon. They don’t actually have to work that hard for it and they lose their perspective.”

“I mean Britney is not working in a coal mine is she? You are whisked to the studio in a very large limo, you are flown around in private jet, everyone will agree with you and physically making an album is a doddle.”