Hello, Simon.
That made be emotional, watching that.
Well, it makes everyone emotional.
To see you cry is, like, a rare thing.
I don't imagine you cry often.
I think three times in my life.
Is that true?
No, it's not true.
No, but there was something about that guy
that night, where it just hit me.
Yeah, well, it was sweet.
I mean, I think everybody--
everyone knows that you're really a sweet guy,
and you are just brutally honest.
So I think it was great to see that.
Yeah, and this guy we're talking about, Michael--
his story is like-- he's adopted all these kids.
And he's a nurse, and he works with young kids.
I mean, just when you think you can't get any nicer,
he gets nicer.
Yeah.
And it just hit me in that moment,
what it would mean to him to do what in the show.
Yeah, and he's doing well.
He's doing well.
He's still there.
He's in the final tonight.
And he's got a shot.
Yeah.
Do you think you know who the winner is?
Ellen, you know, this year, honestly, I
think there's five people who could win it.
Yeah, you have a lot of good people.
We've got some really good people.
We've got this British girl, Courtney, who is incredible--
13 years old.
She's like possessed by Janis Joplin or something.
Yes, yes.
I mean, seriously.
Michael.
We've got this group called Zurcaroh,
which is about 100 kids who all do some somersaults in the air.
I mean, it is, thank God, full of talent.
Yeah, just when you think that you can't-- every year,
there are people that are just crazy talented.
Well, we're stealing each other's talent
at the moment, you and I.
Yes, we are.
Yeah.
I mean, it's like who gets there first, you or me?
We're trying.
Trust me, I know.
There was someone that we actually wanted and somehow
didn't get and got to you.
And I'm furious about it.
How about we just do a deal and we share them?
We should.
Let's do that.
OK, done.
All right.
Bye.
Done.
All right.
So you know you haven't been here in five years.
On the way down in the car, I said to Lauren,
I'm trying to remember the last time I came on the Ellen Show.
And I said, I think it was two years ago.
And then I found out it was five years ago.
Yeah.
Yeah, so thanks for the invite.
Your son was not born yet.
We gave him a little car.
You gave him a car.
Yeah.
We gave him a toy Bugatti, which--
does he drive it now?
Yes.
He's a little bit too big for it.
But I just can't believe how quickly time goes.
Yeah.
He is precious.
I mean, that is an adorable kid.
Yeah.
You know what?
He's sweet.
I remember teaching him how to share
when he was one and a half, because he
had a bottle of milk.
I said, let me have some of your milk.
And he was like, what?
And I went, trust me, sharing gets you more.
And I taught him please and thank you.
And look, he's naughty like I was.
So sometimes when I talk to him, I say,
Eric, whatever you've done, I did 20 times worse.
I get it.
And that's how we communicate.
But he's a sweetheart.
Yeah.
And he's got good style too.
Does he dress himself?
Yeah, we have arguments about who's the most handsome.
He thinks it's him.
I said it's me.
But literally, we've got to the point
now where I'm ordering pajamas.
He now has to wear the same pajamas as me.
That's adorable.
Yeah.
I mean, he really has changed you.
You know that, right?
100%.
And how it's changed me is that you look at life,
hopefully, through his eyes.
So whereas before, I would watch the news or just something
miserable--
you kind of shy away from that because you
want to see everything through his eyes.
So you want to be happy.
So I watch The Flintstones in the morning.
I watch funny movies, like Flubber, in the evening.
And apart from just him being here,
it's given me a different outlook.
And he's very good when I watch the shows back-- you know,
who he likes--
he's got good taste.
Really?
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
That would be a great show for him to watch.
Now, does he have any talent yet?
Have you seen anything?
Well, he won't mind me saying this,
but his dancing is terrible.
I mean, I actually said to him, Eric,
you are the worst dancer in the world, which encourages
him to do these weird dances.
In fact, last weekend, we had some friends around,
and him and his three friends put on some performance
as if they were doing AGT.
And I said, that's not going to get you the Golden Buzzer yet.
I would rather he was my side of the desk than the other side
of the desk.
So maybe he'll do that, then.
Maybe he'll become, like, a producer or something.
I'd love him to.
Yeah.
All right, because we can't sign him.
We both just agree we both can't.
Right.
So I'm going to trust you on that.
But I would still like to see him dance,
just in case you may be wrong.
Because you're very strict.
That's a deal, actually.
Yeah, let's do that.