Simon Cowell secretly donates £100,000-a-year [$165,000] to dogs. The music mogul gives the massive sum to an animal shelter run by "Exorcist" actress Linda Blair - who played possessed child Regan in the 1973 cult horror movie - in Toluca Lake, California, because he views it as the next best thing to having his own pet.
A source said "Simon is a huge dog lover but because he's always traveling he can't have one. He thought it would be a great idea to help Linda out."