Simon Cowell is up, running around and even playing jokes on people after breaking his back over the weekend, pals told Page Six on Tuesday.
“He’s doing well, in good muscle and running a little more in his room,” said a friend of the “America’s Got Talent” star, who had a metal rod inserted in his back during a six-day operation hours Saturday after falling an electric bike at high speed.
‘He did more work and this morning he played jokes [girlfriend] Lauren [Silverman] and some of his friends, ”said Cowell’s source, 60.
He’s “just stupid, joking around,” the friend said. “He knows he had a happy escape and is very grateful for that and the medical teams, who have been incredible.”
Cowell broke his back in three places – came within an inch of cutting his back and faced possible paralysis – while showing off his fancy new $ 20,000 high-powered e-bike to his 6-year-old son, Eric, and 14- year-old stepson, Adam, outside his Malibu, California, road, friends have said.
The bike suddenly hit a wheelie, sending Cowell flying to the ground.
The star tweeted Sunday, ‘What good advice. . . If you are buying an electric trail bike, read the manual before riding for the first time. “
The bike where he was at the time is going so fast, up to 60 mph, that it is banned from the open road in the UK.
Cowell has been receiving weeks of rehabilitation and will miss the first live ‘AGT’ shows on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
But the source said of the star, “Be the workaholic he is, he already works and takes interviews.”
Still, “He knows he has to take it easy.”
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