Simon Cowell has his 8-year-old son, Eric, to thank for his engagement! The judge shares how his son had a hand in his recent engagement to longtime love, Lauren Silverman.“One hundred percent he had to coach me,” Cowell, 62, tells ET. “And we planned it.
He was a big part of it.” Cowell, who has been busy with his new series, says that it was finally time to pop the question after almost nine years with Silverman, 44. “I think after everything all of us had gone through over the past two years, it has changed our lives in so many ways,” he notes. “Family is everything and that is what I kind of took away from it.” A source confirmed to ET that Cowell and Silverman got engaged last month during a vacation in Barbados.
Their son, Eric, and Silverman’s 16-year-old son, Adam, were there for the special moment. A post shared by Simon Cowell (@simoncowell)“Simon proposed to Lauren on their Barbados vacation over the holidays in front of their son, Eric, and Lauren's son, Adam," the source shared. «Lauren was so surprised and didn't expect Simon to propose, because Simon previously never thought he was the marrying type.
He changed his mind because he realized he had met his perfect match.» The source added, «Lauren burst into happy tears when Simon proposed and said yes immediately.
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