Simon Cowell’s son Eric is so grown up in new photos from family lunch date

Simon Cowell appeared to enjoy a low key lunch with his partner Lauren Silverman and nine-year-old son Eric on Saturday, as the family stepped out in Malibu together. 

The America’s Got Talent judge, 63, was spotted at John’s Garden, a lunch and snack bar serving up healthy food, salads, soups and juices near Malibu lagoon. Music mogul Simon’s $24million (£18.3million) Malibu beach house is just one of the homes in his lavish property portfolio.

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Simon looked cool and casual in cargo shorts, a slate grey knit jumper and trainers as his fiancée donned white linen trousers and a nude tank top. 

Eric, who looked almost as tall as Simon, wore a football tee and black shorts as he tucked into a chocolate ice cream delivered to the table by his lookalike dad.

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Simon, who was a self-proclaimed bachelor before starting a family with Lauren, 46, in 2014, has a heartwarming relationship with his son. 

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight in February 2022, Simon revealed the couple’s son Eric had a major role in his proposal to Lauren. “One hundred percent he had to coach me. And we planned it. He was a big part of it.” 

Simon previously admitted that becoming a father changed his life, and has spoken about whether he would expand his family with Lauren.

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“Before Eric, my life was 99 per cent work. I was obsessed with it,” he admitted in a new interview with The Sun, before adding: “Now Eric is around, I don’t work through the night anymore. If he hadn’t come along, God knows what would have happened.”

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Doting Simon also spoke exclusively to HELLO! at the Variety Club Show Business Awards in November, commenting on the moment Lauren mentioned their son in her speech. 

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He told us: “[Fatherhood] changed my life. I mean, I adore him.” Simon then went on to praise their son’s upbringing, and how kind Eric is. 

“He just is. I mean, genuinely he is kind,” he continued. “Some people are and some people aren’t. But that’s just him, he is kind.”