Simon Cowell made £37m in just ONE year through TV appearances and record label
SIMON Cowell made £37m in just ONE year through TV appearances and his record label.
The 60-year-old’s company Simco, which handles the earnings from his TV empire, has reported a profit of almost £35million – an increase of over £10million in profits on the previous financial year.
New records revealed how the firm turned over more than £65million for Simon between April 2018 and September 2019.
The company includes money made from his shows around the world, with Britain’s Got Talent, The X Factor and axed series The Greatest Dancer all falling under its remit.
And while Simon’s popularity is at an all-time high in the states, it’s his UK telly shows which bring him the most cash.
They rake in 42 per cent of his earnings, compared to 33 per cent across the pond and 25 per cent across the rest of the world.
However fans of Simon’s are missing him on both sides of the pond after he was forced to pull out of America’s Got Talent and Britain’s Got Talent’s semi-finals after breaking his back in August.
The music mogul broke his back in three places after falling from his new electric bike at his home in Malibu.
The Sun exclusively revealed how Simon needed six hours of surgery, having missed injuring his spinal cord by a centimetre.
A source said: “He could have been looking at a life in a wheelchair.”
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His son Eric, six, and his partner Lauren Silverman’s teenage lad Adam watched in horror as Simon fell backwards and smashed down onto a concrete floor at his Los Angeles home.
While Kelly Clarkson acted as a guest judge for one of the America’s Got Talent quarter-finals while Simon recuperates, Diversity’s Ashley Banjo is standing in for him during the Britain’s Got Talent semi-finals.