Simon Cowell donates to organizations.
At the 2012 Pride of Britain Awards on 30 October, Cowell, along with Michael Caine, Elton John, Richard Branson and Stephen Fry, recited Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" in tribute to the 2012 British Olympic and Paralympics athletes
 Cowell was chosen as the first subject of the re-launched This Is Your Life, in an episode broadcast on 2 June 2007

