So long, Sinitta — he’s a family man now

LAUren SILVermAn is engaged to her boyfriend Simon Cowell — at last!

Apparently Lauren ‘urged Simon to commit to family life and prioritise the present over hanging out with his exes.’

Good for her! She’s right, after all.

The couple first met in 2010 and have a son, eric, now aged seven. They live together, their lives are entwined together in the loveliest of ways and they have a future together. So why not go the whole way?

There comes a time when every man has to put away childish things, and I don’t just mean Sinitta.

Simon has always liked to think of himself as an eternal bachelor, a rock biz troubadour — a man for whom the notion of domesticity and sharing and settling down was once horrifying.

yet he will probably adore being a husband in the same way that — much to his own surprise — he absolutely adores being a father.

Perhaps he has realised in the final act that family life is not a trap and that it can be a source of the most profound joy instead.

So at the age of 62, it is growing up time at last for my dear friend, Simon.

Better late than never, but how marvellous for him.