
The child would be Cowell's first, but the second for Silverman, who has a son with Andrew Silverman. News of the divorce filing became public two weeks later, when it was widely reported that Lauren Silverman and Cowell were expecting a baby. In July 2013, Andrew Silverman filed for an at-fault divorce in New York, citing adultery by his wife and naming Cowell as a co-respondent.

In 2018, Louis served as an official judge for the UK X Factor.Ĭowell was engaged to make-up artist Mezhgan Hussainy from 2010 until 2011. In 20, Cowell chose Louis to be a guest judge for X Factor UK's Judge's Houses preliminary round, and for America's Got Talent's 11th season. After the competition, Simon signed One Direction to Syco and they became a worldwide success. Cowell was their mentor throughout the series and they ended up being his final act, bringing the band all the way to third place. After all five were rejected as solo artists, Simon and the other judges brought them back moments later to assemble them as a group, to even out the number of contestants within each category.

Simon Cowell eliminated Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, and Liam Payne from the seventh series of The X Factor in 2010 during the boot camp stage. However, after failing to get a promotion, he left to try out other jobs before returning to EMI. Cowell took a few menial jobs-including, according to his brother Tony, working as a runner on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining-but did not get along well with colleagues and bosses, until his father, who was an executive at EMI Music Publishing, managed to get him a job in the mail room. He passed English Language and Literature, and then attended Windsor Technical College where he gained another GCE in Sociology. He has a younger brother, Nicholas Cowell, three half-brothers, John, Tony, and Michael Cowell, and a half-sister, June Cowell.Ĭowell attended Radlett Preparatory School and the independent Dover College as did his brother, but left after taking GCE O levels. Cowell's mother was from a Christian background, and was of English descent. Cowell's father was from a mostly Jewish family, though he did not discuss his background with his children (Cowell's paternal grandmother had emigrated from Poland). (1918–1999), was an estate agent developer and music industry executive.

His mother, Julie Brett (née Josie Dalglish 1925-2015), was a ballet dancer and socialite, and his father, Eric Selig Phillip Cowell, Sr. Cowell was born in Lambeth, London and brought up in Elstree, Hertfordshire.
