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Simon Cowell’s son Eric wants to audition for Britain’s Got Talent 2024
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31 Aug 2023, 09:49
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Britain’s Got Talent star Simon Cowell has revealed that son Eric has big dreams of performing for the golden buzzer.
Nine-year-old Eric is apparently considering a career in showbiz, and is determined to audition in front of dad Simon and his judging panel Alesha Dixon, Bruno Tonioli and Amanda Holden.
During a chat backstage at America’s Got Talent, music mogul Simon told The Sun how he’s feeling about the idea of Eric making his way onto the stage.
Simon confessed: “That is going to be total torture. I mean, of all the things I’ve ever done, this will probably be the hardest.
“I said, because he does play drums, ‘Are you going to drum?’ and he said he wants to sing. I went, ‘Oh God no’.”
It’s not just a childish promise either, as Simon admitted the youngster is very serious about making his big BGT debut.
“I think he wants to be in a rock band. He loves Green Day," the TV star added. “He is really serious about it.
“I don’t know what it is. Maybe because all of these kids are auditioning and now he wants to be up there with his friends.”
Simon shares Eric with fiancee Lauren Silverman, and the showbiz guru recently took a step away from the spotlight to focus more of his time on his family.
He continued: “I wanted to spend more time with Eric — you only get this age once. Being able to pick him up from school every day, have dinner with him every night, all that kind of stuff, I’m able to do that now.”
Speaking in 2022, Simon opened up about his “obsession” with work and how Eric saved him after his intense schedule threw him into depression.
Speaking to The Sun at the time, the star said. “I was obsessed with it. I got to that point where everything was about, ‘If you’re not rating against this then you’re a failure’ and I stopped enjoying what I was doing and I was miserable the whole time.”
"I was really unhappy. But now Eric is around, I don’t work through the night anymore. If he hadn’t come along, God knows what would have happened.”
Simon created Britain’s Got Talent back in 2007, and the judging panel recently welcomed former Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli to the series.
Bruno took over from longtime judge David Walliams, who stood down from BGT in November 2022 after ten years on the panel.
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