Simon Cowell’s household is rising!
The English tv persona, 64, is a canine dad as soon as once more!
“Our family has had a new arrival … her name is Pebbles,” he captioned an Instagram carousel on Thursday. In the two-photo add, the quilt image sees Cowell with a nice-sized pup in his arms.
Seated at a desk holding the pooch, they each draw their faces shut to at least one one other as if giving one another a candy kiss.
In the second picture, the previous American Idol choose nestles his face into Pebbles’ ear as he smiles. Cowell has not disclosed the breed of the canine.
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Cowell has beforehand owned 4 pooches, together with Yorkshire terriers Squiddly and Diddly. After Cowell’s mother handed away in 2016, he additionally began caring for her canine, Freddy, and later adopted a fourth canine, Daisy, in 2018.
In August, in the course of the taping for America’s Got Talent Season 17 Live Semi-Finals on the Sheraton Pasadena Hotel, Cowell walked the crimson carpet together with his small new puppy, Odin.
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He posed for photos on the crimson carpet with the pup, who gave the impression to be a Pomsky.
In addition to having pups as pets, Cowell additionally has a historical past of animal activism, particularly for dogs.
The London-born expertise donated simply over $36,000 to Humane Society International to rescue 200 dogs — together with poodles, Labs and collies — from a “deplorable and miserable” existence in October 2018.
The canines had been caged up at a canine meat farm in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
“His support helped financially but also in raising awareness. We met people in South Korea who had heard of his donation and it really had an impact,” Wendy Higgins, HSI’s Director of International Media, advised PEOPLE about Cowell’s “enormously” useful reward on the time.
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In July 2020, Cowell had an emotional reunion with one of many dogs he’d beforehand helped rescue from the South Korean canine meat farm.
The candy second aired throughout ITV’s Good Morning Britain. The present’s information correspondent Philippa Tomson ended up adopting the pup, a Maltese combine named Robin.
