Britain’s Got Talent supremo Simon Cowell needs to be a father once more – on the age of 63.
The expertise present choose says he likes the concept of offering a sibling for nine-year-old Eric, the kid he has with fiancee Lauren Silverman, 45.
Simon, who turns 64 in October, additionally says he hates the concept that he’ll by no means once more have the ability to expertise the youthful years he had along with his son — so he needs to get pleasure from them once more with one other baby, The Sun experiences.
He mentioned: “Just two days ago I was thinking, ‘It would be nice to have another.’
“Being a dad is the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I love every second I spend with him.
“So then I’m thinking the next step is he’s going to be a teenager.
“Those years when they’re young — I had such an amazing experience all through those years, and I was thinking about it probably because of that.
“Eric has got a lot of friends and we do a lot of things together as a family.
“But you never know with kids if they’re happy being on their own or how would he feel if there was another one?
“So look, will it happen? I don’t know. But I would love another kid. I really like being a dad.”
Simon, who broke his again in 2020 after he fell from an electrical bike and spent months in rehabilitation, admits it could be a problem, however he has already needed to get match to have the ability to play with Eric.
“I am 64 this year, and Eric’s nine … and when I’m playing football with him, my God, I have to get fit just to play with him,” he mentioned.
“His energy is off the chart, it really, really is.
‘That’s show business’
“If I had to go through this all over again I actually would do it, because I think breaking my back was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
“I didn’t realise really how unfit I was until I had to start doing all the exercises.
“But I feel better today than I did three years ago when it happened.”
Holding again the years is one thing Simon has mastered thanks to some beauty enhancements, which he doesn’t thoughts admitting to.
BGT hosts Ant and Dec even snigger about this within the first episode of the present’s new collection.
They joke there’s a new face on the panel, which everybody thinks is Bruno Tonioli, however then the cheeky Geordie duo say: “It’s Simon Cowell.”
Fortunately Simon sees the humorous facet — however he insists rumours about his many procedures are exaggerated.
He mentioned: “I think its hysterical. I mean it just makes me laugh. I haven’t had a facelift or anything.
“I have had a bit of Botox or whatever but kind of nothing drastic.
“So when I hear about this stuff honestly, it does make me laugh.
“Over the years people have said that I’ve had everything done.
“But I don’t google myself so I genuinely don’t have a clue what everyone is saying about me until we do things like BGT.”
The man who actually is the brand new face on the panel — alongside Simon, Alesha Dixon and Amanda Holden — is former Strictly choose Bruno, 67.
He joined the present following a two-horse race between him and funny-man Alan Carr, 46.
There had been rumours that Simon needed his mate Bruno, who he has recognized for 40 years.
Meanwhile fellow panellist Amanda Holden was mentioned to be backing her mate Alan, although she will get on like a home on hearth with Bruno as nicely.
Simon mentioned: “I think she was disappointed because they are really good friends.
“In fact I saw Alan a couple of days after Bruno was announced and, you know, he was really cool about it.
“He said, ‘I totally understand, that’s show business.’ Either would have worked.
“Both of them met the series producers. I said, ‘Look, you have to take the final decision yourselves’. They said we are going with Bruno and I said fine.
“I’m sure Alan would have been brilliant and I know Alan, but not as well as Bruno.
“Bruno was just a completely natural fit on the show.”
Bruno obtained the gig when David Walliams, 51, stepped again from the present final November after ten years on the panel.
This got here after it was claimed he had used derogatory and sexually specific phrases to explain contestants — referring to 1 as a “c***” — throughout breaks in filming BGT.
David apologised, including: “These were private conversations and, like most conversations with friends, were never intended to be shared. Nevertheless, I am sorry.”
Simon felt the feedback went completely towards the “ethos” of the household present, however he mentioned: “I didn’t really get involved in the decision.
“From what I understand, he decided to take a step back.
“It all happened relatively quickly. I was on holiday and then the next thing is I’m having conversations about who’s going to take his place.
“We did say to the two producers, ‘You have to make the final decision’ because, yeah, I am an exec producer, but they’re more hands on.
“Obviously everyone had some input — the network, the producers Fremantle, all of us. said at the time, these comments are completely unacceptable. I had not heard them before and, yeah, it was upsetting.
“But from where I’m sitting, this wasn’t something I believe was constant.
“Most of the time David seemed very respectful and emotional about the contestants and was doing everything that a judge should be doing on a show like this.”
‘Different outlook’
Did he tear a strip off the star for his behaviour?
Simon mentioned: “We had a conversation. But you know, he owned what he said, he wasn’t proud of what he said. This is not something that I would ever condone.”
As BGT enters a brand new period with a brand new choose, Simon is concurrently launching a brand new chapter in his personal life the place he strikes a greater work/leisure stability — even in the course of the gruelling hours of filming BGT.
He mentioned: “I was so close to living the rest of my life in a wheelchair.
“It gives you a completely different outlook on life. In a positive way.
“It hurt — trust me — when it happened, but good things happened off the back of it.
There is no understating the ordeal Simon went through.
In August 2020 he fell from an electric bike he was testing at his home in Malibu, California.
As a result, he had to undergo six hours of surgery, which included having a metal rod put in his back to stabilise it.
He said: “There is that moment when something like this happens — a big accident — and you are lying there and you’re completely helpless. It’s the worst feeling in the world.
“At that point you realise that health is more important than anything else.
“So I’m trying to find whatever that perfect balance is. Now there has to be a cut-off.
“Years ago I would literally work through the night. That was just normal for me. Now it’s kind of like 5.30pm or 6pm, and that’s it. I don’t break that rule, and weekends are weekends.
“On BGT, you’ve done these days. You are honestly, without sounding dramatic here, emotionally drained, because you hear so many stories.
“So by the time we’ve finished one of these days, everyone is straight to bed.
“Maybe it’s because of the pandemic, because obviously I spent so much time with Eric, and I loved spending that time with him, I thought afterwards, ‘I don’t want to change that now.’”
‘Really, really tough’
As a part of his well being regime, which has seen him shed 3st, Simon additionally ditched considered one of his greatest vices — smoking.
It solely occurred as a result of final month he caught laryngitis which, somewhat like him breaking his again, turned out to be a little bit of a blessing in disguise.
He mentioned: “I am now vaping, so I am not quite out of the woods, but I have not had a cigarette in about three or four weeks.
“It was really, really tough because I lost my voice a few weeks ago and when that happened obviously I couldn’t smoke, so that helped.
“I thought, ‘If I have done four days without a cigarette, I can do a week’ and then I thought, ‘This is the moment, touch wood. It had to happen sooner or later.”
But regardless of getting into this new period in his life, Simon isn’t completely forgetting considered one of his biggest previous achievements — The X Factor, which subsequent 12 months celebrates its twentieth anniversary.
Has he any plans to mark the birthday, maybe by reviving the present?
Simon mentioned: “I always want to do something whether it’s BGT or another show where you can find artists who need a break.
“And luckily, over the years, the shows I’ve made have launched an awful lot of careers.
“I think these shows, particularly now with so many kids trying to get attention with 120,000 songs being uploaded every day, everybody needs a secondary platform.
“I don’t know what we’re going to do about the anniversary, but in terms of, ‘Are we going to make another singing show at some point?’ The answer is definitely a yes.”
And as contestants on Britain’s Got Talent know, a ‘Yes’ from Simon is at all times good news.
This story initially appeared on The Sun and is republished right here with permission
Source: www.news.com.au
