Simon Cowell’s weight loss is ‘the easiest thing he’s ever done’ and his vegan diet helps him be a better dad to Eric

SIMON Cowell has boasted his vegan diet is the easiest thing he’s done and has made him a better dad to son Eric.

The X Factor: Celebrity boss, 60, has lost more than one and a half stone thanks to the lifestyle overhaul.

He ditched meat and dairy as well as swapping low calorie beer for his normal tipple.

Asked at last night’s ITV Palooza if he’d continue the diet over Christmas, he said: “Pretty much so yeah.

“Maybe a few roast potatoes. Not only that [it is good for the environment] but it makes you feel better. It genuinely does.

“My memory’s better, my energy’s better. And when you’ve got a five year old you’ve got to be able to keep up with them because the minute they’re awake they’re all over the place. His energy is unbelievable.

“When he wakes up he’s like, ‘Daddy, daddy, daddy,’ and before he goes to sleep, ‘Daddy, daddy, daddy’.

“So I was conscious of the fact I have to keep up with him energy wise and someone recommended this as the way to go.

“I tried it and I stuck to it, it’s one of the easiest things I’ve ever done.”

Simon attended the ITV event at London’s Royal Festival Hall with girlfriend Lauren Silverman, 42.

He decided to overhaul his lifestyle after collapsing in October 2017.

Doctors warned against him living “like a vampire” by staying awake each day until 8am — saying it had to stop.

He recently said: “I went to see this doctor in London. We did some tests. And then a month later he said, ‘You have the worst diet I’ve ever met from any patient’.

“So I went, ‘Okay, out of the smoking, the drinking, and diet, what do I have to drop?’ And he said, ‘The diet’. So I said, ‘I’m in’.”