Simon Cowell Makes An Unusual Promise To 13-Year-Old Talent Show Contestant

Mar 21, 2020 by apost team

In 2018, America's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell offered to buy a 13-year-old contestant a dog after learning that he would use the winning prize of $1 million to buy a dog because he's an only child.

It all started with a pre-performance question and conversation. Little Jeffrey Li introduced himself and told everyone that he was from Toronto, Canada. The crowd cheered him on. Next, Heidi Klum wanted to know what the boy would do with 1 million dollars if he won.

That's fair for her to ask, right? He gave the most adorable answer ever and said that he would like to buy a dog with the million dollars because he is an only child, and he feels lonely. That's about as honest as anyone could ever get. 

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Something overwhelmed Simon Cowell at that moment, and he made a promise to young Jeffrey that if he did well, he would personally buy him a brand new dog.

He didn't say he had to win, and he didn't say he had to win a million bucks. He simply said, "If you do well, I will buy you a dog, and we will go get one together." 

Now, the song that Jeffrey chose to sing was not simple. It's not a song for amateurs at all. He chose You Raise Me Up by Josh Groban. It is very beautiful, and it has a whole slew of extremely high notes.

Jeffrey was quite adorable, but there was a sense of doubt about him being able to perform that song because it's so versatile. Simon gave him a little bit of encouragement by saying, "All right. Let's do this one for the doggie." Jeffrey was inspired to give his very best performance by the idea that he was going to get a dog if he did. 

The performance that he gave cannot be described in words. Everyone could tell that he gave it everything he had, and he was enjoying himself while he sang the song as well. Before the performance, he said he chose this song because it lifted his spirits whenever he was down.

So we could see his spirits lifting as he sang every note. Although Billboard News later reported that it was unknown what kind of breed they settled for, check out the video of his performance and you can see that he thoroughly deserved to get that doggie.

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