Mckenna: I can’t get my pal Cowell to quit smoking
Hypnotism efforts have gone ashtray
Cowell enjoys habit Family has lifted him to anyone about anything. Only the other night at a dinner party Robbie Williams was opposite me, we sat talking about flying saucers.” Seeing Simon find love with partner Lauren Silverman and become a father inspired Paul to finally settle down too. At 53, he married long-term personal assistant Kate Davey, who he has known for 20 years – after using a spreadsheet to find his soulmate. “I worked out the pros and cons of the women I liked and it spiked with Kate,” he said.
“She is so wonderful. Simon was over the moon when I told him I was settling down, he knows how much being with Lauren and becoming a dad has changed his life for the better.
“He loves his son Eric very much and Paul and Simon enjoy fine dining
he and Lauren are very happy.” But Paul rules out starting his own family to give Eric, four, a play-pal, saying: “We have a Great Dane, that’s our child.”
While Paul has helped thousands improve themselves, he says he is still “a work in progress”. He said: “You have challenges. But I’m in a better place than I’ve been in a long time.”
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