'THANKS SI'
Simon Cowell pledging £50k to help Shropshire boy, four, get life-saving cancer treatment in the US
SIMON Cowell has pledged £50,000 to put towards life-saving cancer treatment in the United States for a boy from Shropshire.
The music mogul, 59, donated the huge sum to four-year-old Zac Oliver who is suffering from a rare form of leukaemia called Near Haploid.
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His family have so far raised £350,000 out of the required £500,000 for crucial treatment called CAR-T therapy in America, which is currently unavailable on the NHS - and now The X Factor judge has stepped in to help.
Encouraging fans to donate too, the father-of-one said in a video he shared: “This boy is four years old and needs money to get him to America to get the help he needs.
"So I want you please to go on Zac Oliver’s JustGiving page and whatever you can donate will make a difference.
"And because I don’t like well-known people telling people to do something and don’t do anything themselves, I’m going to donate £50,000.
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"We’re going to get there.”
Zac's family have organised Zacfest, a fundraiser being held in Telford Town Park today.
The little boy's mum Hannah Oliver-Willets said: “Thank you, Simon Cowell.
"I explained to Zac that Simon has helped to pay for his special medicine.
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"Zac said ‘thanks Si’, lol.
"Little does he know how much closer we really are to getting him to the US.”
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It comes as it was exclusively revealed by The Sun that Simon is so devoted to his three Yorkshire Terriers that he refuses to put them on a commercial flight.
Instead, dogs Squiddly, Diddly and Freddy enjoy “furs class” services on board a state-of-the-art Learjet.
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They get their own fully reclining white leather seats, while lapping up Icelandic mineral water from porcelain dog bowls and foraging for organic, sugar-free choc drops.
As Simon, who is father to four-year-old son Eric, knocks back his favourite Japanese beer, his beloved pets tuck into bespoke jumbones and play with a selection of squeaky toys.
The star travels between his London and Los Angeles homes with the pups, as well as an annual Caribbean jaunt.
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