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"Simon Fuller has revealed that he nearly managed Michael Jackson. The manager - who famously masterminded the careers of the Spice Girls and S Club 7, as well as creating Pop Idol and American Idol - admitted that it was &amp;quot;a shame&amp;quot; the partnership didn&amp;#039;t transpire.  &amp;quot;There was a minute there where I was going to become his manager,&amp;quot; Fuller says in BBC Radio 2 documentary The Fuller Picture.  &amp;quot;I had lots of ideas, and I think about it actually every now and again about what I was going to do with him and they were very different to anything he&amp;#039;d done previously and it wasn&amp;#039;t about touring for sure.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;I actually advised him not to do touring because I felt that he&amp;#039;d already been seen touring and I felt there was more to offer in a different way.  &amp;quot;It was quite a complicated situation and complication isn&amp;#039;t something I crave in life but the people around him would have made it challenging. &amp;quot;If it had been just down to me working with Michael I think we&amp;#039;d have done something extraordinary but I thought better to just let it go, it was a shame.&amp;quot; The second part of The Fuller Picture: The Simon Fuller Story will air on BBC Radio 2 this evening (January 15) at 10pm. Meanwhile, Fuller revealed he had further plans for the Spice Girls before they fired him as their manager back in November 1997. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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