Simon Cowell is engaged to girlfriend Lauren Silverman after an eight-year romance.
The music mogul, 62, popped the query to Lauren, 44, on the couple’s Barbados getaway over the brand new 12 months.
The pair had been joined by their son Eric, seven, and Lauren’s son Adam, 16, from a earlier relationship when Simon proposed.
Simon Cowell ‘ENGAGED’ to Lauren Silverman: Music mogul, 62, ‘secretly proposes to long-term accomplice, 44, on Barbados vacation’ (pictured in July)
A supply advised The Solar: ‘Lauren was completely surprised and by no means in 1,000,000 years anticipated Simon to pop the query. She burst into tears – glad tears – and clearly stated sure immediately.
‘Lauren has been Simon’s rock over these previous few years – supporting him when he broke his again, and thru thick and skinny usually. They make an exquisite couple.
‘While Simon by no means thought he was the marrying kind, he’s realised he’s met the girl of his goals – and couldn’t be happier. Within the phrases of Beyoncé, it was time to place a hoop on it.’
A buddy of the pair’s added to Individuals journal: ‘They’re each tremendous glad. They have been collectively a very long time now and adore one another so it isn’t an enormous shock to their shut associates.’
A supply stated: ‘While Simon by no means thought he was the marrying kind, he’s realised he’s met the girl of his goals – and couldn’t be happier’ (pictured in November)
Simon met Lauren when she was nonetheless married to millionaire property developer Andrew Silverman.
Their affair turned public – and Simon’s life modified – on the finish of July 2013 when information broke of Lauren’s being pregnant.
In 2015, Simon advised Mail on Sunday Occasion journal: ‘I am not happy with the circumstances, I can not maintain my head up about it.’
And of the being pregnant, he admitted: ‘This was not one thing I deliberate. However I keep in mind going to the primary scan with Lauren.
‘I referred to as him Tad as a result of he regarded like a tadpole. One thing simply kicked in. I felt unbelievably protecting of each of them. I simply completely needed him. I simply hadn’t identified that earlier than.’
Household: The pair had been stated to have been joined by their son Eric, seven, (pictured) and Lauren’s son Adam, 16, from a earlier relationship when Simon proposed
It comes after Simon stated that his romance with Lauren is ‘nonetheless alive’ having realised they nonetheless ‘take pleasure in one another’s firm’ after months of being holed up collectively throughout the Covid lockdown.
Talking to OK! in November after internet hosting his annual Collectively For Quick Lives charity ball, Simon gushed that his romance with Lauren was nonetheless going sturdy, after their cosy look on the pink carpet.
Requested whether or not their relationship was nonetheless alive, he stated: ‘I suppose so! Covid-19 was the true take a look at. Like everybody, we had been in lockdown for a very long time and that is once you realise whether or not or not you truly take pleasure in one another’s firm or not.
‘And we actually actually did. So to reply your query… sure, the romance remains to be alive. We’re nearer than ever.’
Whereas Simon praised for Lauren for at all times sustaining an energetic function in his charity ventures, he insisted he does his justifiable share of the childcare and ‘loves’ selecting up Eric from college and taking him to soccer coaching.
The Britain’s Acquired Expertise decide additionally confessed that he is so near his son that he and Lauren battle to plan date nights away from him, however in some instances they do ‘occassionally make it out alone.’
Candy: Simon stated that his romance with Lauren is ‘nonetheless alive’ having realised they nonetheless ‘take pleasure in one another’s firm’ after months of being holed up collectively throughout the Covid lockdown