Simon Cowell is already back working – and is set to return to TV next month as long as he follows the doctor's orders to rest after breaking his back.
The X Factor judge is known in the business as a workaholic and was sending emails from his hospital bed on an iPad just hours after he had emergency surgery on his back.
The 60-year-old fell off a new electric bike he was trying out and broke his back in several places at home in Malibu. A source close to Cowell said he was resigned to missing the America's Got Talent shows this week but hoped to have recovered for future shows in the US and UK.
The source added: “Nothing is definitive as yet but we very much hope Simon will be well enough to attend both the AGT final on September 23 and
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