Cowell: 'I've decided to freeze myself'

Simon Cowell has revealed that he wants to be cryonically frozen so that he can return to life in the future.

The media mogul was speaking to guests at a private dinner hosted by Prime Minister Gordon Brown when he disclosed that he would be doing the UK an "invaluable service", says the Daily Mail.

He said: "I have decided to freeze myself when I die. You know, cryonics. You pay a lot of money and you get stuck in a deep freeze once you've been declared dead.

"Medical science is bound to work out a way of bringing us back to life in the next century or so, and I want to be available when they do. I would be doing the nation an invaluable service."

The PM replied that he would be a less popular candidate for a second coming, adding: "In fact, there may be a public campaign to stop me being frozen!"