Simon Cowell has said he was a little tearaway in his early years and hopes his younger son, Eric is better behaved than he was 😅
It would take a lot for young Eric to catch up to his dad’s antics too as Simon, 63, has revealed exactly what he got up to in his childhood due to having a ‘low boredom threshold’ and not being academic.‘I was drinking and smoking at eight, and I once nearly burned the house down.’, Simon explained that he was trying to prove to his brother that Father Christmas didn’t exist, and so found the costume and set fire to Santa’s beard.
Simon’s antics included getting arrested before he was a teenager and even drinking alcohol and smoking Simon, who has three brothers, revealed that his eldest sibling caught wind of the smoke and called the fire brigade. That wasn’t the peak of the TV star’s unruly behaviour as he went on to hijack a bus with a pea gun at the tender age of 12.‘I thought it wouldn’t be taken seriously, but the driver called the police and I was arrested. I remember going back home and my mum being furious,’ Simon said.
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