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X Factor’s Simon Cowell Spends $2,700 on Facelift

Simon Cowell. (Getty Images)
Simon Cowell. (Getty Images)
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X Factor’s Simon Cowell Spends $2,700 on Facelift

Simon Cowell. (Getty Images)
Simon Cowell. (Getty Images)

A news report revealed on Monday that the famous presenter Simon Cowell paid £2,000 ($2,700) for a facelift.

The Contact Music website said that Cowell, 58, recently visited the prominent cosmetic surgeon Dr. Jean-Louis Sebagh known as the "Picasso of dermatology" and the “King of Botox”, for his facelift, the German News Agency reported.

The website noted that Cowell, who participated as a judge in many talent shows including the X Factor, was hoping to lift his skin by using a special technique that helps get rid of the flabby skin in the face and neck.

Cowell said: “There's lots of things you can do now, you don't just have to stuff your face with filler and Botox,” adding that the process “hurts like hell but it gets rid of sun damage.”

“For me now, it's all about having clean skin, if you have clean skin, you look better,” explained the X Factor judge.

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Eel-eating Japan Opposes EU Call for More Protection

People on bicycles cross a street under the hot sun in Tokyo on June 20, 2025. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)
People on bicycles cross a street under the hot sun in Tokyo on June 20, 2025. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)
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Eel-eating Japan Opposes EU Call for More Protection

People on bicycles cross a street under the hot sun in Tokyo on June 20, 2025. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)
People on bicycles cross a street under the hot sun in Tokyo on June 20, 2025. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)

Japan's agriculture minister said Friday the country would oppose any call by the European Union to add eels to an endangered species list that would limit trade in them.

Eel is eaten worldwide but is particularly popular in Japan, where it is called "unagi" and traditionally served grilled after being covered in a sticky-sweet sauce.

Minister Shinjiro Koizumi told reporters that the country carefully manages stock levels of the Japanese eel in cooperation with neighboring China, Taiwan and South Korea.

"There is a sufficient population, and it faces no extinction risk due to international trade," AFP quoted him as saying.

Japanese media have reported that the EU could soon propose that all eel species be added to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) which limits trade of protected animals.

There are 19 species and subspecies of eel, many of them now threatened due to a range of factors including pollution and overfishing.

In 2014, the Japanese eel was listed as endangered, but not critically endangered, by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which cited factors including habitat loss, overfishing, pollution and migration barriers.

Protecting the animal is complicated by their complex life cycle, which unfolds over a vast area, and the many unknowns about how they reproduce.