A TEENAGER who has battled life-threatening bone cancer has won the heart of music mogul and global star Simon Cowell.

The Britain's Got Talent judge was so taken by Molly Cuddihy after speaking to her about her fight with the extremely rare metastatic Ewing's sarcoma that he has pledged to support her up coming charity ball.

Clydeview Academy pupil Molly - who recently received a special award at the Tele's Community Champions gala - was invited with her best friend to the recent live shows of the hit talent programme in London as a special VIP guest of Simon.

Together the pair are organising the 'Every Thank You Counts' ball to give back to other children battling cancer.

They want to help build a special playroom in the Royal Hospital for Children.

All the staff who have helped them fight cancer including ward clerks, auxiliaries, nurses and doctors will be their special VIP guests at the charity ball.

Molly, who recently sat her Highers, said: "Simon was just amazing.

"He is a lovely man.

"The Dream Catchers Foundation took us to the Manchester auditions in February and we met Simon.

"I was still recovering from my major operation and was in crutches and everything.

"Simon was so kind and he invited my best friend and I to the live shows."

The judge arranged for them to come down for the finals.

Molly said: "We went down to the live show in London on the Friday night and we were sitting in the same row as his wife and his little boy.

"When he met me again he was like 'look at you, you look so much better!'.

"He remembered us."

The BGT judge was so moved by their plans to organise the charity ball he offered to support it.

Molly, of Doune Gardens, added: "He didn't have to do that, it is so generous."

It has been a whirlwind few months for Molly since she underwent a major operation in January to remove the primary source of her cancer in her ribcage.

The sixteen-year-old was a VIP at the Teenage Cancer Trust concert in the Royal Albert Hall in London in March and spoke to the thousands of concert goers on the night.

She also met Take That, including lead singer Gary Barlow, as well as the trust's patron Roger Daltry the famous frontman of The Who.

On top of that Molly also rang the ward bell marking the end of her gruelling chemotherapy treatment.

We told earlier this year how Molly had spent 12 months in hospital after she was diagnosed with rare bone cancer in her ribcage.

It presented itself as a mass on her side but spread to her lungs and spine.

Molly, who has been supported throughout by her mum Maria, dad John and older brother Daragh, also contracted a deadly bacterial infection and battled sepsis three times.

She has been left with serious side effects as a result of all the treatments and has nerve damage.

But Molly said: "I was so lucky that I had a consultant in Dr Jairam Sastry who never gives up."

Now together with her best friend Sara Millar, who is also 16 and battling Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, she is organising a glittering charity ball in the Hilton, sponsored by Insite Contractors.

They have inspired hundreds of businesses across the west of Scotland to show their support with an incredible range of donations in the hope of raising over £50,000 for their cause.

Molly said: "Sara and I want to build a room in the ward for children aged eight to 12.

"There is a playroom for the little kids and there is the Teenage Cancer Trust unit for our age group but we felt the eight to 12-year-olds need their own space."

A big part of their night in October is to say thank you to the staff on the Schiehallion ward.

Molly said: "That was important to us, we wanted them all there to say thank-you.

"The doctors are all really excited about getting dressed up, which is lovely!

"We want to say thanks to the ward clerks who come in for a chat, to make sure you are okay and the auxiliaries who care so much.

"We have businesses sponsoring all their tables - this is to say thanks to them."

Professor Brenda Gibson, a world renowned expert in paediatric ­haematology who runs the Schiehallion ward, will speak on the night.

Molly added: "Professor Gibson is incredible - she deals with 60 patients at any one time and knows them all."

Before the ball the incredible teenager, who achieved straight As in her Nationals from her hospital bed and has dreams of becoming a doctor, is off to Oxford University on a special summer school.

Molly's fight has inspired local people to set up a fund in her name and they have raised over £7,500 so far.

* The Every Thank You Counts charity ball hosted by Molly and Sara is in the Double Tree by Hilton in Glasgow on Saturday October 5.