Royal Variety Show host Amanda Holden's reaction to 'rift' with ITV star and Les Dennis marriage
Amanda Holden and Alan Carr will join forces once more to host the Royal Variety Performance as a host of famous faces. Recorded earlier this month the annual fundraising event saw a string of famous faces including Sir Elton John, Ted Lasso's Ellie Taylor, and Britain's Got Talent winner Sydnie Christmas perform in front of King Charles.
The Britain's Got Talent and Heart FM star has been on our screens and radios for more than two decades. This weekend she's co-hosting the historic event at Royal Albert Hall with close friend and co-star on renovation show, comedian Carr.
In an interview about the show and her outfit choice , Amanda told The Sun's TV Mag: "My outfit is definitely glamorous - hopefully nobody complains to Ofcom!" For the latest TV & Showbiz news, sign up to our newsletter
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Amanda's been on ITV show BGT since 2007 and is known for her impressive fashion choices. The 53-year-old first rose to fame in the late 1990s with roles on The Grimleys and Channel 5 sketch show, We Know Where You Live. It was in the mid-90s that Amanda tied the knot with comedian Les Dennis.
The couple split in 2000 and ultimately divorced in 2003 after Amanda had an affair with Men Behaving Badly star, Neil Morrissey. Now Amanda is married to music producer Chris Hughes who she got together with in the mid-2000s, the couple have two daughters Alexa and Hollie, and in 2011 the family sadly lost baby Theo at seven months when he was stillborn.
Over the past couple of years it's been rumoured that Amanda had a rift with former This Morning host, Holly Willoughby, which the Heart FM DJ denied back in 2023. Amanda wrote: "The story in The Sun about Holly and I is completely made up, full of contradictions and just utter rubbish."
She added: "Sadly, strong and intelligent women have for far too long been pitted against one another when we should all be celebrated in our own right."
She went on: "The 'rift' story now circulating as a result of this article - which I have woken up to this morning and was not checked for factual correctness - simply does not exist. There have been some huge assumptions made this week and everyone has feasted on them.
"These type of articles need to stop. The language around women (in most pieces I read every day) is laughable. It's so different to say how men are written about. Women are still expected to say and do nothing, suffer silently and just get on with it. And we do ... mostly.
"These stories are just there to distract us from the actual news. We are becoming a world which is gradually being eroded of all its best qualities - humour, backbone and truth."
