Simon Cowell is a music mogul. Over the years, his talent shows made him staggering amounts of money, and the celebrity judge and producer is believed to have a net worth of over $600 million. He, however, spends a good portion of it by donating to various charities. This year only, he gave $1.5 million to the organizations Feed the World and Feed Britain.
Despite his enormous success, 2021 seemed not to be Cowell’s year. Not only because of the pandemic which affected the entire world, but because of the accident he suffered. Cowell fell off his electric bike and injured his back. He had undergone a surgery, and luckily, he was able to get on his feet again.
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One would assume that it would be difficult for someone who had experienced such a terrible accident to be able to get on a bike again, but Cowell isn’t someone who gets afraid easily.
Speaking to TMZ, he said: “First of all, I bought a crazy, crazy bike. Even though [the bike he had his accident on] had pedals on, this is not what I would call an electric bike.
“The one I had was basically a motorcycle with an electric engine when you have to wear a proper crash helmet, leathers. This thing was nuts,” he added. “I didn’t know how powerful it was before I got on it. And I fly 6-8 feet in the air and landed on my spine.”
Now he’s driving one again, but a bit different than the one he fell off of.
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One of Cowell’s most famous talent shows, The X Factor, will likely be canceled. Speculations about it started circulating back in 2020, and now an ITV spokesperson said in a statement as reported by Variety: “There are no current plans for the next series of ‘The X Factor’ at this stage.
“It’s not definitely returning, it might return, and if it does the format will tweak,” ITV managing director Kevin Lygo said. “Simon controls it more than we do. When does he want it to come back, how does he want to come back? Hopefully we can be part of it.”
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The good things is that the media mogul has a plenty of other projects coming up. As per Deadline, Cowell will be part of a panel of judges for the brand new show Walk The Line, which will be a combination of a talent contest and game elements. Cowell himself said of it that it will have “viewers on the edge of their seats.”
“We wanted to develop a show which will give the contestants a life-changing cash prize if they win,” he explained. “Each show there will be a champion who must make a vital decision: either cash out then and there or stay in the contest to compete again the following night and have a chance to claim the huge prize.”
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We are looking forward to this show as well as seeing Cowell as a judge on America’s Got Talent.
The sound of thunder and heavy rain accompanied by frequent flashes of blinding bolts of bright lights usually sends any animal, regardless of species, to hide for cover. It could be under couches, blankets, tables or even in our arms. Thunderstorms are terrifying for most animals, and it is especially so for those who live a hard life on the streets.
Unlike house dogs, stray canines do not have the luxury of having a warm spot in a cozy environment to snuggle up in. Instead, they remain stuck on the cold and hard streets, with nothing else other than the pitter-patter of raindrops wetting their fur coats.
This is a heartbreaking sight to see.
The city of Buenos Aires, which is also the capital of Argentina, had been hit with a torrential thunderstorm. One local bus driver had spotted two stranded dogs during his shift, all drenched head to toe in cold rain water and shivering in fear. He did what any human being with a big heart would do – to provide them with shelter.
In the bustling city of Buenos Aires, public transport commuters all know that the rules and regulations of buses functioning in Buenos Aires do not allow any animals on board. However, these rules did not stop one kind-hearted bus driver from protecting the frightened strays during one violent and heavy thunderstorm.
Passengers snapped and shared many photos of the dogs during their ride and on their social media accounts, asking around if anyone was interested in helping or fostering them.
This bus driver’s act of kindness soon got to the management’s attention, which even released a statement reiterating their very strict ‘no animals’ policy. Under this circumstance however, they showed great support for what the driver did for the dogs.
After all, how can one resist not helping our adorable furry friends in times of dire need? We remain truly thankful to this bus driver who has shown great and rare kindness to these animals. Although we are not sure what happened to those dogs after the thunderstorm has settled down, but very hopefully, they are now safely rehomed.
Here at Bored Daddy, we urge all of you to adopt a pet at your local shelter and to not shop. This is to keep our furry friends off the streets and safely in a loving home, where they can stay warm and well-cared for.
When someone becomes famous, they posses the power to influence positive changes to take place.
If you can’t think of such a person let us tell you what one of the best musicians of our time, Jon Bon Jovi, is doing for the needy Americans.
His good deeds change the lives of many and his heart of gold is something everyone is speaking about.
Bon Jovi’s community kitchens are open for thousands of people who can’t afford to have a hot meal and everyone agrees that his restaurants feel like home.
The start of The Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation in 2006 marked at the same time the start of the fight against homelessness and poverty and the music star and his wife seem to be winning it.
Their first restaurant was opened in 2011 and if you are ever given the chance to go there, you’ll notice that there aren’t prices listed on the menus. The reason why is because Soul Kitchen is unlike any restaurant out there and not everyone is expected to pay for what they get.
The customers, who are mostly people who can’t afford to buy their meal, can choose to volunteer in the restaurant instead. Those who have money, however, are encouraged to donate $20 and help pay for the food of the rest of the customers.
The first restaurant is situated in Red Bank, New Jersey, the second one opened in Toms River in New Jersey in 2016, and third one was opened this year on the grounds of Rutgers University.
Speaking on NBCNightly News, Bon Jovi explained why they chose the university as the most suitable location. “Now what we realize is that there were kids in colleges that were hungry,” he said. “And this was a — logical progression. And Rutgers really embraced the concept.”
His wife Dorothea added: “People had this romanticized version of the starving student. It’s not as romantic as we would like to think it is.”
The restaurants take no reservations but work on the principle first-come-first-served. They say, however, that priority is given to those who are struggling financially the most.
The food offered is very tasty and consists of three-course meals. The starter is usually a soup or salad, the main course offered is fish, meat, or vegetarian dish, and finally a dessert. What’s most, the food is prepared by professional chefs with fresh ingredients from the restaurants’ own garden.
Soul Kitchen is described as “a place where individuals or families can come to eat a delicious farm-to-table meal in a warm, welcoming setting and meet our neighbors.”
We truly hope other influential people will find inspiration in the work of Bon Jovi and his wife and will do something similar for the vulnerable members of their communities.
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The fact that many wild animals become endangered on our watch is sad beyond belief. We are helpless to help a number of species because we sometimes act as though this world belongs only to us, forgetting that it is the home of a huge number of species.
Thankfully, there are people out there who dedicate their lives to saving and protecting different groups of animals. One of them is Roxy Danckwerst, a woman who has spent two decades caring for orphaned animals.
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One of the latest members of Roxy’s sanctuary, Wild is Life, is a baby elephant named Moyo, which means “of the heart.” The poor baby was found abandoned on the shores of Lake Kariba, in Zimbabwe, by rangers. They assume that the family was trying to cross a river, but the little one got washed away.
Luckily, Roxy was there to open the doors to her home and her heart for Moyo. What is incredible about this loving creature is that he found comfort with his caretaker and fell in love with her so much that he now spends every second of every day by her side. The two even sleep side by side.
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In the past, Roxy cared for and nurtured a huge number of elephants that she later released in the wild. But it’s different with Moyo. He’s still very young and dependable, and although living with a 123 pound creature is quite demanding, Roxy is happy she gets to take care of her sweet friend.
For more on this cute friendship check out the video below by BBC’s show Nature’s Miracle Orphans.
I am sure you’ve heard of unusual and unexplained medical conditions people face. The case of Keely Favell from Britain is a medical mystery that caught our attention and left us wondering how is it possible for doctors to fail to establish an accurate diagnosis.
Whereas there are women who didn’t know they were pregnant until delivery day, Favell’s case is just the opposite. She believed she was pregnant all along, but the reality was far different.
What doctors convinced Favell to be a baby, turned out a giant 57-pound ovarian cyst that required urgent removal. The biggest issue is that doctors didn’t do any further analysis and simply told this woman she was expecting, despite the blood tests coming back negative.
Everything started back in 2014 when Favell started gaining weight. She believed she was just getting fat because she ate more so she didn’t really put too much thought into it. However, when people on the streets started congratulating her on her baby asking about the due date, she understood her weight got out of control.
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In 2016, she blacked out so she decided to seek medical care. She told Mirror that after all the tests, doctors told her it was because of stress. When it happened again they told her it could be because of her acne medication. However, she wasn’t taking any at the time and insisted on another blood test to check once again whether there was pregnancy in question, but it came negative as the ones before.
As she started panicking already, the general physician asked for an ultrasound which left everyone in shock. They couldn’t believe what they’ve missed to discover for so long. Just to be sure, Favell was sent for an emergency CT scan that only confirmed there was a huge cyst inside her body.
She underwent a 5-hour surgery during witch the high-risk obstetrics specialist managed to successfully remove the baby-resembling cyst Favell later referred to as Mr. Whippy.
After that massive growth was out of her body, she started her recovery and felt relieved both mentally and physically. She told the BBC:
“I lost sight of how difficult even simple things like driving a car or walking up the stairs had become. Losing my lump gave me my life back – I can’t thank my surgeon enough.”
Doctors later explained that it can happen for ovarian cysts to go undetected for longer periods of time because many women don’t have any symptoms and don’t seek for help, unaware something is growing inside their body.
Some of the common symptoms could be swelling in the stomach, abnormal menstrual cycle, cramps, or facial hair. Though sometimes they are not life threatening, in many cases they have to be surgically removed.
In Kelly’s case, things could take a wrong turn if she didn’t insist on further examinations. Luckily, she is feeling great and this won’t affect her having children in the future.
Life is beautiful only when we realize that the differences and diversities are what make it whole and worth living. The sad reality is, however, that issues such as that of racism are still present in almost every diverse society. And as we very often hear of people hating each other or getting into conflicts only because of their skin color, stories such as that of Aaron Halbert and his wife remind us how things aren’t always as bad as they seem, because there are still people who only care if someone is a good human or not, regardless of their physical appearance.
This couple is white, and yet their kids are black, and they are the perfect family out there. They have two adopted children, a son who is an African-American, and a biracial daughter. Now their family got bigger as they welcomed their African-American triplets into their life.
Halbert, who is a devoted Christian and a missionary, talks about his family’s life in a post he wrote for the Washington Post. People loved what this man had to say and regarded his story one of the most inspirational ones they’ve ever stumbled upon.
It starts like this:
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“As I have made the stroll from my wife’s hospital room to the NICU these past few days it has been hard to fathom the way that our family has been put together.”
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“This past Sunday, my gorgeous wife – a white evangelical, like me — gave birth to our beautiful African-American triplet daughters whom we adopted as embryos. These sweet girls will hopefully soon be coming home to meet their 3-year-old African-American brother and 2-year-old biracial sister, both of whom we adopted as infants. The normalcy of this paragraph is something I have come to take for granted. Yet what seems to us to be the logical outcome of being pro-life is still something that to others often needs much explaining.”
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“I grew up as a child of evangelical missionaries in Honduras, very aware of racial diversity because I was the blue-eyed, cotton-topped white kid who stuck out like a sore thumb, but all the while felt deeply connected to the people there, even though we looked very different. My wife, on the other hand, grew up in the delta of Mississippi and it wasn’t until she took a few trips to Haiti that the veil of racial prejudice was lifted from her eyes. One of the central themes of Christianity is, after all, that God, through His Son, is calling people from every tongue, tribe and nation. Grasping diversity will make the world stronger as we marvel at God’s creative genius on display through His people’s varying pigments, personalities and proficiencies. Our differences are cause for celebration, not scorn.”
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Both Aaron and Rachel always loved the idea of adopting children. So when they were in the States, some years into their marriage, they visited an adoption agency in Mississippi. Not only that, but they requested to be able to adopt any child except for a fully Caucasian child. It was like that because they knew their biological children, if they had any, would be white, and they wanted a diverse family.
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Being missionaries and people of God, this beautiful couple believed that it was God’s will for them to become adoptive parents and change a child’s life forever. “When we adopt, we are echoing his own compassionate work, giving the world a glimpse of the truth and beauty of the gospel,” Aaron wrote.
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Aaron added how they believe that each person is a unique creation by God, and race should never be something that divide us. On the contrary, we should accept it and embrace it.
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“There is something beautiful and enriching being the only white face sitting and chatting with some of my African-American friends as my son gets his hair cut on a Saturday morning. There is also something wonderful in the relationship that is built as my wife asks a black friend on Facebook how to care for our little biracial daughter’s hair. The beauty of a multi-ethnic family is found there, in the fact that the differences are the very thing that make ours richer and fuller. It forces you to think in a new way about the way you think, speak, act and live.”
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Of course, there have always been people who stare and wonder why a white family has black or biracial children. But there are also those whose faces smile when they see this beautiful blended family.
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Although they already had their plate full with all the commitments around their two children, Rachel and Aaron started considering adopting an embryo after a friend mentioned the idea. That is when they visited the National Embryo Donation Center, a Christian embryo bank.
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As they wanted their two children to feel connected with the ones they were eager to welcome into the world, the couple opted for embryos of an African-American donor.
“In September of last year, we had two embryos implanted and began the long wait to see whether the transfer was successful. The day to visit the doctor could not come fast enough. Six weeks after the transfer we made a very nervous trip to the local hospital in Honduras, where we were serving as full-time missionaries. We began to describe everything to our doctor in Spanish (broken Spanish, that is). He asked us a few times if we were sure that we had transferred two embryos. Yes, of course we were sure, we said. However, one of those embryos had split in two inside Rachel’s womb. She was indeed pregnant- not only with twins, but triplets!”
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Everyone was happy for this family. Looking at them, many of their friends decided to follow their path and adopt African-American children.
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Aaron ended his post writing: “This is not the way we planned it 12 years ago when we were dating and talking about adoption, but oh, how thankful we are for God blessing us with these sweet little ones He has placed in our care. I can remember a friend going through the adoption process telling me he had always wanted his family to look like a little United Nations. As I look at my growing family, I prefer to take it a step further, daring to hope that our family picture is a little hint of Heaven.”
If you want to learn more about this incredible family, check out the video below.
Helping one another when we need it the most is what makes this world go round. The beautiful thing about humans is that most of them would go above and beyond for others, many times, even for complete strangers.
Officer Dustin Kincaid from the Seguin Police Department responded to a routine welfare check not assuming it would lead to something truly beautiful. Namely, as he entered the home of the elderly lady, he didn’t notice anything worrying. The woman seemed to be doing well, but Officer Dustin thought he could spare a minute or two and engage into a conversation with her.
That’s when he learned that the woman’s refrigerator wasn’t working. Having in mind this happened mid-July when the temperatures are pretty high, he knew he needed to do something about it.
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“I was just talking to her a little bit and she told me her refrigerator went out, she’s on a fixed income and she didn’t know how she would get it fixed or get a new one and afford to buy food,” he told the Seguin Gazette.
The first thing that came to his mind was reaching to his department and asking if anyone was willing to help the lady. To his amusement, almost everyone agreed to lend a helping hand. “I am blown away from the response that I got from my fellow officers and co-workers at the Seguin Police Department,” Officer Dustin said.
In no time, the department bought a brand new fridge and filled it with food.
“There are too many SPD employees, both sworn and non-sworn who gave their personal time and money to help out this lovely lady who needed a hand to name,” Chief Terry Nichols shared on Facebook.
The good thing is that the friendship between the caring officer and the elderly lady didn’t stop there. On the contrary, he decided to pay her a visit at least once a week to make sure she has everything she needs. What a thoughtful thing to do. Thank you, officers!
Despite the attempts to smooth things over, it seems like the feud between the members of the British Royalty is still going on, and Prince William has had it enough of the accusations and the harsh words addressed to his family by his brother and sister-in-law.
It all started with the Sussexes’ decision to step down from their royal duties shortly after Archie was born. It was reported that they made the decision without consulting Queen Elizabeth, which enraged her. Harry and Meghan moved to Canada but settled down in California soon after.
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What followed was the infamous Oprah interview during which Harry said how he didn’t know he was trapped inside his family until he met his wife.
“I wouldn’t have been able to because I myself was trapped, I didn’t see a way out. I was trapped, but I didn’t know I was trapped. But the moment that I met Meg, and our worlds collided in the most amazing of ways and then [I began] to see how trapped within the system, like, the rest of my family are.
“My father and my brother, they are trapped,” Harry added. “They don’t get to leave, and I have huge compassion for that.”
As expected, neither William nor Prince Charles were happy with Harry’s words. However, they decided not to answer back. It was the Queen who released an official statement saying the family will solve matter privately and that Harry and Meghan will always be much loved members of the family.
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However, the Sussexes didn’t stop there. After the interview, Harry spoke about his family once again saying he was thinking of leaving his family when he was in his twenties and that he’s now trying to put a stop to the cycle of genetic pain which comes with being royalty.
At the time, Prince William commented that his family wasn’t racist. He even tried making things right with his brother after prince Philip’s funeral, but Harry wasn’t happy speaking to his brother and father without Meghan by his side. He was reported to have said that he felt “ambushed.”
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As quoted by Express, US Weekly’s Christina Garibaldi, a royal commentator, said at the time: “William thinks Harry chose fame over family. A source tells us that ‘William feels that Harry has got too big for his boots since moving to California and that success and Hollywood has gone to his head.’”
Now, other experts, among which Nick Bullen, speak of the relationship between the brothers. Speaking to US Magazine, Bullen said that William was “shocked by the amount of things that his brother has said over the last few weeks.”
“I’m sure the Royal Family and the various royal households just want a moment of calm and are saying, ‘Let’s not have any more headlines,’” he added. “‘Let’s just have a period when no one’s speaking.’”
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But as it turns out, William won’t take any more “nonsense” from his brother.
“Most people thought the main blame for the fall-out was not Meghan, but instead the brothers themselves,” royal expert Charlotte Griffiths said as quoted by Express. “A new picture is emerging that William is much tougher in this situation than we previously thought. He is very, very firm. He was much tougher behind the scenes very early on.”
According to her, William is changing tactics when it comes to his brother and his wife. “William had felt that the smoothing over hadn’t been working for quite a long time at that moment. He felt decisive action was needed, that he needed to play them at their own game,” Griffith adds.
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Now that Harry and Meghan are planning on becoming influencers, William is “dreading” their next move, as per royal author Duncan Larcombe.
He also said that Harry and Meghan have to “stop cashing in on the brand” by “continually talking about the royals” as they move on. “What do they do next? That’s a question Prince William is dreading the answer to,” Larcome told OK! Magazine.
“Ultimately, they have to find a way to do their work in LA while not trading on the royal brand. Prince Harry hasn’t exactly been subtle,” Larcombe added.
