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Inside Simon Cowell’s relationship with son Eric – helping star beat ‘addiction’; ‘worries’ Eric ‘didn’t like him’; and loss that inspired his name

Can you believe that Simon Cowell is now dad to an 11-year-old son? Here's more about his relationship with Eric Cowell.

Since then, Eric – who Simon shares with partner Lauren Silverman – has popped up in the public eye occasionally, including an appearance on BGT last year when he smacked the Golden Buzzer to send Haribow through to the final. Simon was working thousands of miles away, promoting Irish boy band Westlife’s first number one in 1999, when he was told his father had died. Max Clifford, the late disgraced publicist, told PEOPLE at the time of Eric Jrn’s birth: “What he is striving for is to build the same relationship [with his son] over the years.

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