SIMON Cowell could be locked in another copyright row after it emerged a group of British rockers also share the same name as his newly formed group.
Tattooed Scottish band December Tenth told the music mogul to get his lawyers to call them over the name dispute.
This week Netflix announced his new show Next Act will feature his latest band – December 10.
The seven-piece group – which conissits of Nicolas Alves, 16, Cruz Lee-Ojo, 19, Hendrik Christoffersen, 19, John Fadare, 17, Josh Olliver, 17, Danny Bretherton, 16, and Seán Hayden, 19 – released their new music earlier this week.
But they have an unexpected rivalry in the form of the Glasgow-based metallers, who are named after the date their pen pal was executed on death row.
They have challenged Simon after he and Netflix announced the new boy band with a very similar name to their group.
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In a post on social media the lead singer of the band said: “It came to light over the last few days that Simon Cowell, Netflix and Universal Music, are involved in a new boy band that share, to some extent, our name December Tenth.
“Now if anyone in Simon’s team, Universal or Netflix, would like to get in touch with ourselves and our legal team they can do so.
“I would like to point out, the hundreds of new followers we have over the last few days are most welcome, but I’m not entirely sure they are all genuine.”
The band, who formed in 2020, have also been swamped with messages with confused boy band fans who mistakenly followed them online.
He added: “Our social media accounts have blew up and we had no idea why. It turns out that Simon Cowell has released a new Netflix show, called “December 10”.
“We are now being inundated with well wishes from fans of the show thinking we are that band.”
It’s not the first time Simon has faced issues over a pop group’s name.
In 2011 X Factor was forced to change their girl band Rhythmix to Little Mix after a disabled children’s charity in Brighton with the same name threatened them with legal action.