Cowell jokes about fatherhood news at 'X Factor' party (USA News)

Simon Cowell gripped approaching parenthood at The X Factor's third-season debut party Thursday.

"I'd get a kick out of the chance to uncover something: I'm set to be a Dad," he declared to those accumulated at Cecconi's in West Hollywood, Calif.

"No one knows," the X Factor inventor and judge clowned about news that has been flowing for a month.

Cowell, 53, is wanting a kid with Lauren Silverman, 36, who was not at the gathering. The child is a kid, consistent with anonymous sources in reports without much fanfare in New York's Daily News and Us Weekly.

Cowell's kindred judges joined in on the infant funniness throughout comments conveyed soon after a screening of the opening of Fox's singing rivalry (Wed., 8 p.m. Et/pt).

"He's making me the adoptive parent," Demi Lovato told the swarm.

New judge Paulina Rubio ringed in: "I just heard Simon is set to breastfeed."

It was a long ways from right on time August, when Cowell was tight-lipped about what was then breaking news throughout a presence advertising the show at the Television Critics Association summer press tour.