A lot of celebrities have been swept up in thePokemon TCGfrenzy, hoarding expensive cards and splashing out thousands on the rarest pulls. Justin Bieber has a wall dedicated to his extensive collection, while DJ Steve Aoki even opened his own store. But the last person I would’ve ever expected to see at a marketplace hunting down treasured pulls is X-Factor and America’s Got Talent mogul Simon Cowell.
The person who sold him cards joked that “one of [their] many regrets” was not singing to Cowell—who knows? Maybe he just narrowly missed the next Harry Styles.
As reported byIGN, he was recently spotted at the London Trading Card show in Croydon. The 65-year-old Scoob star, TV personality, and record executive was seen buying a Rayquaza VMAX Alt Art card, graded PSA 10—worth $2,700. Onfire Trading Cards stated that Cowell “was picking up all sorts”, though it didn’t seem like he was buying the cards for himself, as OTC explained that “his lad likes Evolving Skies”, i.e. the Sword & Shield set.
Onfire Trading Cards Snapped A Pic With Cowell At The London Trading Card Show
Beyond Pokémon, there are a lot of surprising celebs who have impressive TCG collections.Post Malone famously bought the unique, one-of-a-kind One Ring cardas part of Magic: The Gathering and The Lord of the Rings' collaborative Universe Beyond set. The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik, also a neuroscientist and host of Jeopardy!, is also one of Hollywood’s biggest baseball collectors (taking over from her father).
Charlie Sheen was involved in a strange TCG heist way back in the ’90s, when his T206 Honus Wagner baseball card was stolen by cafe employees in Times Square. The FBI even got involved, retrieving the PSA 1 (the lowest-quality) card and returning it to Sheen, who sold it in 2001 (more recently, it went for a staggering $3 million).
Even controversial Disney star and YouTuber Logan Paul has a hankering for TCG, buying a PSA 10 Piakchu Illustrator for over $5 million, making it the most expensive Pokémon purchase in history (he also spent $3 million on a Pokemon box, but that was full of G.I. Joe cards).
Clearly, it’s not just your average (G.I.) Joe’s who raid supermarket aisles and elbow small children in the hopes of getting rare trading cards—everyone is doing it these days. Even, potentially, TV judges.
