Amanda Holden

At 53 years old, Amanda Holden has this physical status:

Amanda Louise Holden (born 16 February 1971) is an English media actress, model, television host, and author.

She has been judging on the television talent competition Britain's Got Talent since the show's inception on ITV in 2007.

Holden played Mel in Kiss Me Kate (1998–2000), Mia Bevan in Cutting It (2002–2004), Sarah Trevanion in Big Top (2006–2008), and Sarah Trevanion in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award.

Holden has hosted several television shows for ITV, including The Sun Military Awards (2009–2014), The Door (2010), Superstar (2012), This Morning (2014–2015), and Give a Pet a Home (2015).

She joined Jamie Theakston as the co-host of the Heart Breakfast radio show in 2019.

Early life

Holden was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and spent most of her childhood in Bishop's Waltham, and at the age of nine, she joined Bishop's Waltham Little Theatre Company.

She attended Swanmore College, the secondary community college. She migrated to Bournemouth before heading to Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in South London at age 16.

Personal life

Holden dated George Asprey in 1992, when they were both appearing in The Sound of Music. Les Dennis, a comedian, was married to her in June 1995. After Holden's affair with actor Neil Morrissey became the subject of public curiosity, the pair split in December 2002 and divorced in 2003. Around this time, she alleged that an "unidentified well-known comedian" was sexually assaulted at a public function.

Holden gave birth to her first child in 2006, conceived with her fiancé, Chris Hughes. She married Hughes at Babington House, Somerset, on December 10, 2008, with former Formula One racing driver David Coulthard acting as the best man. She suffered with her son's birth at seven months in 2011. Despite medical difficulties, she gave birth to their second child in 2012. Holden and Hughes lived in Surrey as of 2018. Holden also owns a cottage in the Cotswolds, which she has been renovating since 2017.

In December 2016, Holden's ancestry was featured on a BBC show called Who Do You Think You Are? The series continues. Collin Thomas, her Cornish 5x great-grandfather, served a year in jail for violating his apprenticeship as a cordwainer after enlisting in the Royal Navy and leaving the United Kingdom at the age of 15. While serving in the British Army during the Peninsular War, he met and married a French woman and established a family near Bordeaux, France, then moved his wife and youngest children back to Great Britain. Holden also learned that her grandfather, Frank Holden, a psychiatric nurse, was aboard the RMS Lancastria when it was bombed by the German Luftwaffe in June 1940 outside the port of Saint-Nazaire and sank, costing thousands of lives. Frank Holden died of suicide in his 70s.

Holden is a member of Everton in the English Premier League, and she enjoys home and away games when she can. Since she was thirteen, she has been vegetarian.

Holden campaigned to keep a Sainsbury's supermarket out of Bishop's Waltham in 2010. When she agreed to appear in advertisements for Tesco, a UK supermarket chain, residents of her hometown, she accused her of a double standard in November 2010.

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Career

In 1991, Holden's first television appearance was as a contestant on the game show Blind Date. Holden appeared in three series of ITV's Wild at Heart co-starring Stephen Tompkinson from 2006 to 2008.

Holden's other television appearances include three series of the comedy Kiss Me Kate starring Caroline Quentin and Chris Langham, three series of ITV's The Grimleys, Celeb With Harry Enfield, BBC series Hearts and Bones with Damian Lewis, Jonathan Creek's "The Problem at Gallowes Gate," a Boxing Day special "4.50 From Paddington" starring Geraldine McEwan and John Hannah, as well as three series "The Problem at Gallowe's Ready When You Are Mr. McGill, a comedy drama by Jack Rosenthal, co-starred Bill Nighy and Tom Courtenay. Holden, as well as Simon Cowell, David Walliams, and Alesha Dixon, are among the judges on Britain's Got Talent. She appeared on the show in 2006.

Smack the Pony, EastEnders, Hearts and Bones, and Cutting It, among other British series, she has appeared on Smack the Pony, Smack the Pony, Hearts, and Bones.

Holden appeared as Lizzie, the Ring Mistress, in the BBC circus sitcom Big Top in 2009. Holden had been offered a one-time guest host on The Early Show, a daytime talk show, in April 2009. She appeared with regular hosts Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez on June 1, 2009. Holden has since joined CBS as a British correspondent for The Early Show.

Holden co-presented A Night of Heroes: The Sun Military Awards on ITV from 2009 to 2014 with Phillip Schofield. Amanda Holden's Fantasy Lives, a three-part series in which she attempted to pursue three of her dream careers, premiered in January 2010.

Holden co-presented The Door with Chris Tarrant in 2010. On ITV, Holden narrated the documentary The Country's Favourite Bee Gees Song. On July 6, a Holden guest appeared on Lorraine Kelly in an episode of Lorraine Kelly. She appeared on six new episodes of the show from 4 to 8, as well as on July 4, 2016.

Holden hosted a talent show on ITV in 2012. On March 24, 2014, she hosted an episode of Channel 4's Dispatches discussing stillbirths and miscarriages.

During Holly Willoughby's maternity leave, Holden served as a co-host on This Morning with Phillip Schofield from September 22nd to December 18, 2014. She took a short break in January and February 2015 to film the UK's Got Talent auditions. During this period, Christine Lampard appeared for Holden before the latter's return to the show from 2 March to 17 July 2015. She returned to This Morning in 2017 to co-present multiple episodes with Ben Shephard.

Give a Pet a Home, a six-part factual series on ITV that worked with the RSPCA in finding homes for animals. In April and May 2015, the series premiered.

Holden appeared on ITV's Christmas telethon Text Santa on December 18, 2015, he was one of the presenting team. I've Got Something To Tell You, a factual series for the W television channel, was broadcast in 2016. In CBBC's The Worst Witch, she appeared as Miss Pentangle in 2017. In 2022, Holden appeared in the Australian soap opera Neighbours as Harriet Wallace. She began filming in London in October 2021.

She debuted in a new comedy mockumentary series from Bo' Selecta in 2021! Leigh Francis, the creator, is a filmmaker. The Holden Girls: Mandy & Myrtle was on display, with Francis in drag and heavy make-up as Amanda's nan Myrtle. The show debuted on Channel 4 with 601,938 viewers and was repeated on Channel 4, attracting enough viewers to be recommissioned for a second series in 2022.

Holden has appeared in many stage musicals and was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2004 for her role in Thoroughly Modern Millie's West End production, which closed earlier than anticipated in June 2004.

Holden has completed his role as Princess Fiona in Shrek The Musical's original West End production, which opened on May 6. On June 14, 2011 the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, opened the show. Nigel Lindsay, Richard Blackwood, and Nigel Harman appeared together. Holden left the show on October 3rd, ten weeks earlier than expected, to concentrate on her unborn child and not to worry about her newborn baby. Kimberley Walsh, a girl aloud singer, was recalled. Holden received the WhatsOnStage.com Best Actress in a Musical award for this role. Holden appeared in a West End revival of Stepping Out and reprised her role when it opened at the Valiant Theatre in March 2017.

Holden appeared in Intimate Relations in 1996. In 1999, she appeared as a virtual sexuality helper in a shoe-shop assistant. She was uncredited in the 2013 film One Chance.

Holden would replace Emma Bunton as co-host of Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston at the same time as it went national on June 3rd.

Holden signed a recording deal with Virgin EMI Records in 2019. Songs from My Heart, her debut studio album, was released in 2020 by Universal Music. It debuted on the UK Albums Chart at number four.

Holden joined the News of the World in July 2009 as a gossip columnist.

Holden appeared in television commercial ads for supermarket chain Tesco from 2010 to 2012. She has appeared in television commercials for Danone Oykos low-fat yoghurt since 2012.

Amanda's autobiography, No Holding Back, became the best-seller in the Sunday Times in October 2013.

She was the new star of the Alpen Brighter Morning Challenge in 2015.

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