Simon Cowell spends £180k to clone beloved dogs Squiddly, Diddly and Freddy
SIMON Cowell is spending £180,000 to clone his beloved dogs Squiddly, Diddly and Freddy.
The music mogul, who is currently in Barbados with the pups, is so infatuated with his Yorkshire terriers that he is hoping to replicate them by getting their cells harvested using a South Korean company.
He told The Sun On Sunday: “I am 100 per cent cloning the dogs, all of them.“We’ve thoroughly looked into it, got all the details and I can prove to you I’m going to clone them. There is documentation.
“I am doing it because I cannot bear the thought of them not being around.
“I might actually do it sooner rather than later, which will mean we have six dogs running around. It doesn’t hurt them. It’s like a swab, a DNA thing.”
The besotted star continued: “You hope they’re going to be the same dogs and that you’ll love them as much as the current ones.
“I cannot imagine Squiddly, Diddly and Freddy not being around, so this is the solution.”
During the cloning process, which costs around £60,000 per dog, a skin biopsy is performed on the animal’s stomach.
Scientists then remove the nucleus from the eggs harvested and insert a skin cell from the animal to be cloned.
The dad of one welcomed pups Squiddly and Diddly into this family in 2013.
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In 2016 he adopted his mum’s dog Freddy after she passed away.
The pooches are some of the most spoilt in showbiz and travel the world with him – travelling by private jet.
They get their own fully reclining white leather seats, while lapping up Icelandic mineral water from porcelain dog bowls and foraging for organic, sugar-free choc drops. It’s a dog’s life!
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