TWO years ago Simon Cowell lost an impressive 3st by overhauling his diet and cycling on his beloved — but dangerous — E-bikes, of which he has a haul of 15 at his Californian mansion.
Today he looks skinnier than I’ve ever seen him and his fiancee Lauren Silverman reckons he now weighs less than her.
Two years ago Simon Cowell lost an impressive 3st by overhauling his diet and cycling on his beloved E-bikes
Today he looks skinnier than I’ve ever seen him and his fiancee Lauren Silverman reckons he now weighs less than her
So, how’s he done it? Surely a gastric band, like his manager and close friend Jonathan Shalit? “No, I haven’t had a gastric band,” Simon sighs.
What about a gastric bypass?
“No, nor one of them.”
I ask him to promise on my life — which he does, a little too readily. “I would tell you if I did!” he adds.
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“Look, I will tell you what I did. I did see a doctor in Harley Street. He specialises in a certain kind of diet.
“He did my blood work and pee and all the rest of it, and a month later the results came in and his words were, ‘You have the worst diet out of all the clients I have ever seen in my life — you have a schoolboy’s diet from the 1960s.’
“It was just pies. So he sent me a list of things I can’t eat, and that included red meat, dairy, sugar and gluten. And I pretty much stuck to it.”
So, when was the last time Simon ate a pie? “Christ knows,” he says. “A long time ago. Even pizza, the hardest thing for me to give up, I can now have a tiny, tiny amount and that’s enough.”
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Which sounds suspiciously like the work of a gastric band.
“No! How much would you like to bet? Wouldn’t there be scars?”
So what’s his typical daily diet?
For breakfast, it is a “green smoothie” and no-sugar Alpen, with tea and oat milk. Lunch is grilled tomatoes and some soup.
Often he will go out for dinner and not eat. Which is the sort of thing that makes Victoria Beckham sound like a glutton.
“I’m not a big eater,” he insists. “I don’t enjoy it that much. I’d rather have a beer than eat, any day of the week.
“Sometimes when we are going out for dinner because I know I’m going to hate the food, I have baked beans on toast before I go, then eat nothing.
“When you go to one of these ghastly big parties, or weddings, where the food is horrific, I just can’t deal with that.”
There are two things nobody wants to happen when interviewing Simon Cowell.
1) He suggests going for a quick spin on his electric bike. 2) Your front tooth falls out.
Yet it came to pass that I found myself — tooth hanging by a thread (more on this later) — whizzing around the very courtyard where Simon broke his back and nearly died in 2020.
“Let’s just pop you up a couple of gears,” he says casually, as I am rocketed forward on something the size of a small horse. “You’ll be absolutely fine.”
He did my blood work and pee and all the rest of it, and a month later the results came in and his words were, ‘You have the worst diet out of all the clients I have ever seen in my life — you have a schoolboy’s diet from the 1960s.’
Simon is now nearly two years on from his horrific E-bike crash which saw him require six hours of spine-saving surgery.
And in the wake of a more recent smash two months ago that left him with a broken arm, he still refuses a helmet.
But it is clear the Britain’s Got Talent star was badly shaken by the original accident.
So much so that Simon, 62, recently proposed to long-term girlfriend Lauren Silverman, with whom he has eight-year-old son Eric.
Stunning US socialite Lauren, 43, and Simon are hosting me for a chat in the grounds of their Malibu mansion, as he opens up for the first time about the couple’s forthcoming wedding.
He says: “I’ve kind of felt myself engaged for a long time, i
