Simon Cowell on burglary: 'It's a frightening experience'

Music mogul Simon Cowell has opened up about the burglary that took place at his house recently.

The superstar's house was broken into at around 2am on Friday night and although he was unharmed, the thieves made off with £500,000 worth of jewellery.

He revealed that the first thing he did upon realising what had happened was check on his baby son, Eric: “That was the first thing we did, to make sure he was OK."

"Apart from the fact someone broke into my house and stole my stuff, which is scary, it could have been worse. Thankfully no one was hurt. 'The most frightening thing is someone has been in your house. It's not what they steal, it's that's someone can break into your house. It's nerve-racking."

Cowell admitted: "There are private security guards who patrol the area and they saw the guy leave and he dropped my passport. [One] got out the car, picked up my passport, realised it was mine and approached the guy. The guy ran off and then he [the guard] told us there was somebody who'd burgled the house – that's how we found out about it.”

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