Cowell's girl shuns his yacht to put family first for Christmas

By Richard Kay

PUBLISHED: 20:54 EST, 17 November 2013 | UPDATED: 03:59 EST, 18 November 2013


Family: Lauren Silverman will spend Christmas with her seven-year-old son Adam, not Simon Cowell

Family: Lauren Silverman will spend Christmas with her seven-year-old son Adam, not Simon Cowell

It’s separate turkeys this Christmas for Simon Cowell and the woman he is expected to make his wife, beautiful brunette Lauren Silverman.

Lauren, 36, almost seven months pregnant with Simon’s baby,  has decided her priority has to be  her son, Adam, seven, from her defunct marriage to U.S. property tycoon Andrew Silverman.

Thus she won’t be joining Simon, 54, and his coterie of lady friends, including the singer Sinitta, aboard his sybaritic yacht, The Slipstream, cruising around Barbados for the festive season.

Nevertheless, she will be in the Caribbean.

For Lauren, I can reveal, is staying  with her family, including Adam, elsewhere in the sunshine. ‘There was never any chance that she was going to spend Christmas with Simon,’ says a pal.

She will be in a rented villa with her son and then she is going to join Simon in Barbados  for New Year on his boat or at one of the  X Factor mogul’s properties when Adam will be with his father in New York, I am told.

Cowell’s romance  with Lauren is said to have developed during past Caribbean jaunts.

Their flirtations became obvious to friends during Simon’s Christmas break to Barbados in 2011, when Lauren and her husband were invited. They split last year.

 

Laura's a real rugby knockout

England’s rugby players weren’t the only ones feeling battered and bruised at Twickenham following their defeat at the hands of the mighty All Blacks on Saturday.

Mezzo-soprano Laura Wright, who sang the National Anthem  prior to kick-off, was also nursing sporting injuries of her own.

While playing outside centre for Rosslyn Park Ladies in a match against Henley the previous weekend, sultry Laura, 23, was knocked unconscious.

Injuries: Mezzo soprano Laura Wright was knocked unconscious playign rugby before singing at Twickenham

Injuries: Mezzo soprano Laura Wright was knocked unconscious playign rugby before singing at Twickenham

Careful: She said, 'I wanted to play on but head injuries are serious and I have been careful'

Careful: She said, 'I wanted to play on but head injuries are serious and I have been careful'

She had already broken her finger in the first half and was taken off 15 minutes before the end of the match when the team’s physio forced her to withdraw.

‘I had a bit of a rough game last week, but wanted to play on.

I got a bang to the head when someone booted me in a tackle and  I was knocked out,’ says Laura.

‘They did all the concussion tests and when they said stand on your left leg I stood on my right. It was OK, but I had to come off in the second half. Head injuries are serious and I have been careful.’

 

Multi-millionaire property man Sir David Garrard, whose nomination for a peerage by Tony Blair ended in disaster after he was caught up in the ‘cash for peerages’ scandal, has given a Labour MP £60,000.

Garrard, who was promised  a seat in the Lords having loaned Labour £2.3 million before the 2005 General Election, has gifted the sum to Shadow Business Secretary Rachel Reeves to run her office.

Elsewhere in the updated register of MPs’ interests, Old Etonian nightclub entrepreneur and Lib Dem peer Lord Palumbo has given Bermondsey MP Simon Hughes £55,000.

 

Former Lib Dem politician Lembit Opik says no sitting MP will go on I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! because of the flak Nadine Dorries got for it last year.

Lembit, a contestant on the 2010 series after he lost his seat, says: ‘Nadine’s experience will have frightened people.

Advice: Former MP and I'm A Celebrity... contestant says Nick Clegg should go on to toughen up

Advice: Former MP and I'm A Celebrity... contestant says Nick Clegg should go on to toughen up

'Also contestants have to sign a confidentiality agreement about their payments — most are paid different amounts — yet MPs are obliged to declare any income they receive.

'The only ones who might go into the jungle are those who aren’t planning to stand again, so they won’t care if they get hassle as they don’t need votes.’

So who would he like to see do it?

‘Nick Clegg, as he might get bitten by a snake. He’d have a lot of trouble in the jungle.

'I’d like him to use that time to reflect, then on coming out call me and say: “I now realise how tough a character you are. Please accept this ministry position.” ’

 

She might be the glamorous new lady of Longleat House, but the newly wed Viscountess Weymouth says she won’t stop pushing for show business success.

And she reckons it could be imminent.

‘My life is about to change after some meetings to develop my TV career,’ the former Emma McQuiston says excitedly at the launch of a temporary ice rink at the Bluebird restaurant in Chelsea.

‘I have long held the ambition of my own TV chef programme.

‘Now, touch wood, it’s going to happen.

‘I won’t be all dressed up like Nigella, I want to be casual and do healthy, hearty food.’

 

PS Her father Prince Andrew’s predilection for first-class air travel has earned him the nickname Airmiles Andy.

But Princess Beatrice has developed a more fastidious attitude to flying.

Bea, 25, was spotted arriving at Heathrow on Saturday on a BA flight from Antigua.

A fellow passenger tells me she travelled in economy.

The Princess had been in the Caribbean visiting Necker Island, the private island of Sir Richard Branson, who is boss of her boyfriend Dave Clark.

She had been taking part in the Necker Cup tennis tournament, where guests included Rafael Nadal and Boris Becker.

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I'm not sure that putting her son first for a few days over Christmas (while obviously the correct thing to do) makes up for not putting him first when embarking on an affair with a man who wasn't her son's father leading to the complete destruction of his family. If her marriage was unbearable she could have left it in a respectful manner (i.e. with nobody else involved and after honest conversation with her husband about why she was unhappy) to give them the best chance of being friendly co-parents. Once that has been achieved you can think about a new partner. If it wasn't a terrible marriage she should have concentrated on improving it. The moment a married person realises someone who they find attractive, is also attracted to them, they should distance themselves. THAT is how you put your son first. Affairs (and pregnancies) don't "just happen". People choose them because they care more about themselves than they do about their children.

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If she was with Simon she would only be wishing she was actually with her family. Maybe she is starting to see things for what they are. Cake and eat it does not work. But many people give it a try and regret it later. Once the family is broken and gone you don't get it back, ever.

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Lauren Silverman is not 'Cowell's girl'. She is Lauren Silverman, a divorcee, mother of one and pregnant with her second child. We no longer attempt to humiliate those of other races by calling them boys, and we no longer call women - girls. Catch up DM.

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Ah well, it'll give Sinitta a break from sticking pins in her doll.

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The first wise thing Lauren Silverman has done is puttng her son first.

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First time Lauren actually put her son first.

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I can't see how this family is going to be a family if Simon doesn't bond with his step-son.

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He's not allowed to 'bond' with him as he is banned from seeing or speaking to him as part of the divorce settlement. Will definitely make things difficult for Lauren, as he obviously hoped it would.

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Well she's going to have to put up with Simon doing what he wants as he'll never change

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Wasn't her husband part of her family? She didn't put him first when committing adultery with Mr Cowell

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Why did she leave her handsome, wealthy, husband for simon cowell?

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Simon is wealthier.

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Won't change his habits of a lifetime and spend Christmas with his pregnant partner and her family... Yet "is expected to make her his wife". How long do we give this marriage if it happens?

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