Simon Cowell has confirmed he and girlfriend Lauren Silverman are expecting a baby boy and has hinted at marrying the 36-year-old American socialite.
“I wouldn’t expect Lauren to be a single mother,” the never-married star said during a radio interview with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest.
The 53-year-old had been friends with Lauren for more than six years before the pair began an affair. Lauren split from her husband, Andrew, following the announcement of her pregnancy.
Simon, who will become a dad for the first time, revealed he won’t be in the birthing suite when his baby is born.
“Are you out of your mind?” he said, when asked if he planned to be present.
“This sounds awful but it’s a little bit like you don’t want to go into the restaurant when they’re making your dinner.
“There are certain things you shouldn’t see and that is one of them.”
Lauren, who is already mum to seven-year-old Adam with her former husband, is due in February and currently lives in New York while Simon divides his time between the UK and America.
“I am happy at the moment, it’s kind of an unusual feeling. You see flowers and hear the birds sing, the grass is greener,” said Simon, who was engaged to Mezhgan Hussainy before they split in 2011.
“I genuinely never thought it would happen. I was scared about who I was going to have kids with, but you’ve met Lauren,” he told Ryan, “and we get on really really well.”
While The X Factor mogul is “over the moon” to be welcoming a baby boy, he insists that his child must have a British accent.
“Obviously I have to make sure the baby has an English accent.
“No word of a lie, I said to Lauren what if I just play me on tape while the baby is sleeping so it would subliminally hear me and have a British accent?”
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