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Simon Cowell and finacee are on a break

Simon Cowell poses at a world premiere screening event for "The X Factor" on Sept. 14, 2011, in Los Angeles. AP

(CBS) Simon Cowell may be staying a bachelor for a little bit longer. The "X Factor" judge says he and his fiancee, Mezhgan Hussainy, are on a break and that he's having second thoughts about marriage.

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"It's quite a complicated relationship," Cowell, 52, revealed to the U.K's Daily Mirror. "We have had a break from each other, and we are still incredibly close. I'm vulnerable. It's not on, it's not off, it's somewhere in the middle. I don't know if I will ever get married, but I am happy."

Cowell met Hussainy in 2003 on the set of "American Idol," where she was a working as a makeup artist. Things reportedly got romantic in 2009, and Cowell proposed in February 2010.

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