{"id":974245,"date":"2022-02-03T00:40:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/simon-cowell-breaks-arm-in-electric-bike-crash\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T00:40:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:40:23","slug":"simon-cowell-breaks-arm-in-electric-bike-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/simon-cowell-breaks-arm-in-electric-bike-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell breaks arm in electric bike crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Feb. 2 (UPI) —<\/span> Simon Cowell is recovering after breaking his arm in an electric bike crash.<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old television personality was hospitalized after injuring himself in his second e-bike crash Thursday in London, TMZ reported Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n

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Sources told Us Weekly that Cowell was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident and is “lucky to be alive.”<\/p>\n

“He was pedaling along, with his electric motor on, when the wheels suddenly went from under him after hitting a wet patch. He slipped and went flying over the handlebars into the middle of the road,” the insider said.<\/p>\n

People confirmed that Cowell broke his arm. Sources said the star has since returned home from the hospital and is “absolutely fine.”<\/p>\n

The television personality was spotted wearing a cast during an outing Tuesday in London, according to Page Six.<\/p>\n

Cowell previously broke his back in August 2020 while testing an e-bike at his Malibu home.<\/p>\n

Cowell is known for creating the reality competition series American Idol<\/i>, The X Factor<\/i> and America’s Got Talent<\/i>. He presently serves as a judge on America’s Got Talent<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feb. 2 (UPI) — Simon Cowell is recovering after breaking his arm in an electric bike crash. The 62-year-old television personality was hospitalized after injuring himself in his second e-bike crash Thursday in London, TMZ reported Tuesday. Advertisement Sources told Us Weekly that Cowell was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":974246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}