It's a boy! Proud father-to-be Simon Cowell tells friends he and Lauren Silverman will welcome a son next year

He shocked the world with the announcement he was set to become a father at the age of 53 and now Simon Cowell has revealed he will welcome a son. 
The music mogul accompanied his pregnant girlfriend Lauren Silverman to an ultrasound recently where they reportedly discovered they will be having a mini-Cowell. 
According to the New York Daily News, Simon is ‘over the moon’ and couldn’t resist spilling the beans to some friends.

It's a boy: Proud papa Simon Cowell has reportedly told friends he and Lauren Silverman will welcome a son next year

A source told Confidenti@l: ‘He is over the moon to be having a son.’
Simon also spoke out about the scan to UK’s The Times newspaper, although he didn’t
open up about the baby’s sex. 
On Monday he said, ‘I went to see a scan today and it is just surreal. You literally see this thing which is now alive moving around. I feel very paternal right now.’

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Although he can’t wait to start a family with New York socialite Lauren, 36, who was spotted taking her seven-year-old son Adam from her marriage to Andrew Silverman to school in Riverdale, New York on Tuesday, Cowell isn’t too keen on all aspects of fatherhood. 
Asked whether he was looking forward to becoming a parent, he told BBC Breakfast: ‘I am good with kids because I like kids. I really do like them and I listen to them.
‘Once I got used to it (becoming a father) I did get excited. I think I will be a good dad, so I'm excited.’
But Cowell insisted that he will not deal with dirty nappies.

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‘I'm not doing that, 100% absolutely not going near that,’ he said and when asked whether he would delegate to someone else, he replied: ‘Of course.’
Cowell also hinted that he will not let his baby get in the way when it comes to getting his beauty sleep.
Warned by Harry Hill, who has written The X Factor musical, that he would feel exhausted from sleepless nights, he replied: ‘Can't I just get a nanny?’

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