Simon Cowell has pledged to donate more than £1million to charities affected by the coronavirus. The music mogul is donating $1.6million of his wealth and has urged other business leaders to do the same in these tough circumstances.
In particular, he is donating to Shooting Star Children's Hospices, a charity he has worked with in the past. And as he now resides in the States, the 60-year-old is also giving a helping hand to both Feeding Britain and Feeding America.
Writing in The Sun, he said: "I was devastated to learn one of the many charities impacted is Shooting Star Children’s Hospices, a small charity in the south of England I have been lucky to be involved with since 2002, which is a lifeline to 800 families with babies, children