Happy Birthday Simon Cowell! Simon Cowell’s 50th birthday party was a lavish, extravagant party in celebration of Simon turning 50 years old on Wedneday, October 7th 2009. The American Idol music mogul got the birthday party started early on Saturday, October 3rd, inviting 400 guests to the party event held at billionaire Sir Philip Green’s mansion in Hertfordshire, England.

Birthday boy spared no expense entertaining family, friends and A-list celebrities including Sir Elton John, Kevin Spacey, Naomi Campbell, singers Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue and chef Gordon Ramsay, with an estimated cost said to be a whopping 1.5 million dollars, including 75,000 for a fleet of limousines to bring birthday guests to the event. Speaking about the party’s hefty price tag, the birthday boy said, “I always pick up my own tab whether it’s for four people or 400.”

Simon Cowell treated party guests to vintage champagne and performances by boyband Westlife, X Factor winners Lewis and Alexandra Burke, as well as a Happy Birthday rendition from supermodel Kate Moss. Several of Simon’s ex-girlfriends were also in attendance, including Terri Seymour, Sinitta and Jackie St Clair.

Waiters for the private birthday party wore masks of Simon’s face, with large photo images of Cowell plastered all over the party. Party guests dined on a Simon-themed meal fit for the American Idol judge, including ‘Simon’s Chicken Soup’, boasting pasta shapes in the music mogul’s name.

Simon’s Rolls Royce Phantom was damaged during preparations for the birthday party, when a delivery man bringing 960 bottles of Sapporo lager dropped the first case, sending shattered glass all over Simon’s prized possession. See photos here.

Birthday wishes from David and Victoria Beckham and Jennifer Aniston were pre-recorded and played on giant screens at the birthday party. Simon Cowell’s birthday party guest list included Idol host Ryan Seacrest, Randy Jackson, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, Olivia Newton-John, Jennifer Lopez, Leona Lewis, David Hasselhoff, Katie Price, Paula Abdul, Piers Morgan, Kelly Brook, Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts, The X Factor winner Shayne Ward, and Simon’s 82-year-old mum Julie. Susan Boyle, who shot to fame on Simon’s reality-tv show Britain’s Got Talent, reportedly skipped the party bash because she was too busy with her family in Scotland.

Simon’s Cowell’s birthday letter to “my shallow, reckless, cocky younger self” answers questions of why Simon is always dressed down, why working very hard and never giving up to get to the top is so important makes for an interesting read:

26th September 2009
Dear Simon,
First things first, how are you? On second thoughts, don’t answer that. I know exactly how you are feeling. It is the early Nineties and you are frustrated, exhausted and worried sick. Life at this moment is not great. Yet just a few years ago, you felt like you were the king of the world!
However, your dazzling reign turned out to be rather short-lived, to say the least. The record label you co-owned went bust and you lost everything – the big house, the car, everything.
So the sun went down on your shiny empire and you had to go back to living with Mum and Dad. That was, as I am sure you and I agree, humbling to say the least. Yet what is harder – much harder – is trying to claw your way back up the ladder.

Read more of Simon’s letter to himself.

Happy 50th Birthday Simon Cowell! Aren’t ya thrilled that Simon Cowell is NOT leaving American Idol after all? We’re still really upset though that Paula Abdul is no longer an American Idol Judge.

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