Is Simon Cowell’s son most the eligible toddler in town?

A £10,000 birthday party. Tables at top LA restaurants. And tiger mums desperate to engineer a play date ...

ZIPPINg between social engagements in the back of a Bentley; lounging on a caribbean beach; feasting on lobster at The Ivy . . . at the tender age of three, Eric cowell leads the sort of life most adults can only dream of. But, as the only child of a music mogul worth £480 million, is it any wonder Simon cowell’s son has such an enviable existence?

Eric, born in 2014 to TV talent judge Simon, 56, and his American socialite girlfriend Lauren Silverman, 39, splits his time between his father’s two homes, a £10 million pad in London’s trendy Holland Park and a £23 million sprawling mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

When he’s not holidaying with his parents in Miami or the Mediterranean, the jet-setting toddler can be found at Los Angeles’s hippest hot-spots — or enjoying a blow-out birthday party (the last one cost £10,000) with his pals.

Indeed, so coveted is a ‘ power playdate’ with little Eric — who seems to possess not only Simon’s confidence but his entire wardrobe in miniature — that tiger mums have started popping up at his favourite haunts in an attempt to engineer a meeting with their own offspring.

Simon admits his son is pampered but insists he’s far from precocious. ‘ He’s well-balanced. He’s not spoilt,’ Simon said recently. ‘I’ve taught him how to share, which is important. He says please and thank you. Someone said to me the other day, “He’s such a polite little boy.” I’m proud of that.’

And it seems this proud father’s generosity knows no bounds. Step inside the opulent, extravagant world of Hollywood’s most eligible toddler.

EXPENSIVE TASTES

ErIc is a regular at Au Fudge, an LA restaurant owned by Hollywood star Jessica Biel and known locally as ‘Soho House for kids’.

Wealthy stay-at-home mothers take their children several times a week to munch on the ‘Kids’ All Organic Menu’, featuring £8 cheese sticks with tomato soup, £10.50 mini burgers with chips and £7 corn lollipops with parmesan.

For £12 an hour, youngsters can be dropped off in Au Fudge’s ‘creative space’, where au pairs ‘guide children’s fun and creativity in a safe environment’, while their parents sip on £4 ‘Mommy Mocktails’ or something stronger — a popular choice is a £6.50 cocktail made from low-calorie tequila, lime and agave syrup.

Insiders say befriending baby Eric is a full-time occupation for many of the café’s regulars, who watch eagle-eyed from the bar as their children attempt to strike up conversation with the local catch.

Last month, Eric accompanied his mum to high- end Japanese restaurant Nobu — a favourite of fellow celebrity child Harper Beckham, aged four — for lunch. The venue offers a special children’s dish, featuring salmon and avocado sushi rolls, tiger prawn and squid tempura, mixed vegetables and skewered chicken, for just £21 (the adult version costs £49.50).

His grown-up tastes also extend to dining at The Ivy in West Hollywood, where the menu includes wagyu beef burgers, seafood linguine and pizzas topped with lobster, smoked salmon or duck.

It’s little wonder Eric eats out so much. Simon himself spends an estimated £1,250 on dining every week and dismisses domestic kitchens as ‘irrelevant’.

£10,000 BIRTHDAY DO

ErIc’S birthday, which falls on Valentine’s Day, is a momentous occasion for his doting dad — and Simon spares no expense in celebrating it.

Last year, it was an eyewateringly expensive bash at swanky London members’ haunt The Arts club; and this year he topped even that, splashing out £10,000 on a do at London’s prestigious Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

The dinosaur-themed event, held in the hotel’s magnificent ballroom, featured green and silver helium balloons filled with Jurassic Park-style foliage, dinosaur party bags and a life-sized animatronic dinosaur (complete with an actor playing its ‘ keeper’) for the young guests to pet.

There was a miniature table for the 50-odd children, as well as beautifully decorated place settings for their parents, with grown-up party nibbles and pink champagne.

A guest said the event was ‘really over the top and fabulous’ adding: ‘Simon spent over £10,000 making it a wonderful day for Eric and all the guests. The cake was dinosaur-themed and everything in the room was dinosaur-themed, too.’

TOP-QUALITY TOYS

HAVINg been ferried around in a £2,000 Aston Martin buggy as a baby, young Eric was always going to have high standards when it came to toys.

When he’s not getting a feel for Daddy’s millions (Simon shared a photograph of Eric rifling through his father’s wallet with the caption ‘Oh no! He is Dad’s little boy’), Eric has hundreds of top-of-the-range playthings to keep him occupied. There’s the iPad — on which he likes to watch his favourite Disney films, including The Jungle Book and The Lion King — as well as a huge collection of stuffed animals, and a deluxe £39.99 ‘Y glider’ scooter for whizzing to playdates.

But the most expensive item in Eric’s toy collection is a £249.99 black Bentley continental ride- On, a miniature version of Simon’s prized sports car. The electric vehicle comes with parental remote controls (in case Eric’s feet can’t reach the pedals), working lights, engine noises and a music player.

Unfortunately, the car isn’t roadworthy — it’s only licensed for indoor use and flat lawns — so Eric will have to wait a few years before

impressing the ladies with his wheels like his dad.

JET-SET TRAVEL

He’d covered more than 54,000 miles by the time he reached 18 months, earning him the nickname ‘Airmiles eric’.

Since then, his transatlantic adventures have continued — by private jet, of course. The family’s annual jet bill is estimated to be £50,000. For shorter distances, eric has his pick of daddy’s fleet of luxury cars — and a ready chauffeur in Simon himself.

The music mogul has been spotted driving around London in a £1 million Bugatti Veyron, a £ 160,000 Bentley Continental GT and a £650,000 Jaguar eagle Speedster — though only the Bentley has room for a booster seat in the back. And, of course, there’s the golf buggy for shorter jaunts around the X Factor studios.

Last year, former judge Cheryl Fernandez-Versini shared a photograph of the toddler sitting on his father’s knee in a motorised golf cart, his little hands confidently gripping the wheel.

NON-STOP CARE

WHiLe daddy works and Mummy does whatever socialites do, eric is looked after by two devoted Filipina nannies, who are often snapped carrying the toddler and his many belongings around.

A source close to the family says eric doesn’t seem to mind, as he gets on well with his nannies, who have been with the family since he was born and travel with them between London and LA.

during stays in the UK, a team of liveried staff are at eric’s beck and call in the family’s Holland Park home, including chefs, security guards and domestic housekeepers.