Amanda Holden Biography
Amanda Holden is an English media personality, actress, and singer. Since 2007, she has served as a judge on ITV’s talent show Britain’s Got Talent. She co-hosts the national Heart Breakfast radio show with Jamie Theakston on weekday mornings.
How old is Amanda Holden? – Age
She is 52 years old as of 16 February 2023. She was born in 1971 in Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Her real name is Amanda Louise Holden.
Amanda Holden Family – Education
Holden was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and spent her childhood in Bishop’s Waltham, where she joined the Bishop’s Waltham Little Theatre Company when she was nine years old. Her secondary community school was Swanmore College. When she was 16, she went to Bournemouth before going to South London to attend Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Amanda Holden Husband – Children
In 1992, Kate Holden began dating George Asprey, and in 1995, she married Les Dennis. In 1992, Kate Holden began dating George Asprey, and in 1995, she married Les Dennis. They divorced briefly in 2000 and permanently in 2002. Her first child, born in 2006, was conceived with her fiancé, record producer Chris Hughes. She married Hughes on December 10, 2008, at Babington House in Somerset, with former Formula One racing driver David Coulthard serving as best man. Following a loss in 2010, she gave birth to their son at the age of seven months in 2011.
She gave birth to their second kid in 2012 despite medical difficulties. Holden and Hughes live in Petersham, Surrey, and she has spent the last year renovating a cottage in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
Amanda Holden Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of £ 3.6 million.
Amanda Holden Book
Holden’s autobiography book, No Holding Back, became a Sunday Times bestseller in 2013. Songs from My Heart, her debut studio album, was released in 2020 and debuted at number five on the UK Albums Chart.
Amanda Holden Heart Breakfast
Holden replaced Emma Bunton as co-host of Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston in April 2019, and the show went global on June 3rd.
Amanda Holden ITV
Holden played Sarah Trevanian in three episodes of ITV’s Wild at Heart, which starred Stephen Tompkinson and ran from 2006 to 2008. She appeared alongside Simon Pegg, Sanjeev Baskar, Ella Kenion, Fiona Allen, and Jeremy Fowlds in the pioneering Channel 5 sketch show “We Know Where You Live” in 1997.
In addition, Holden has appeared in three seasons of the comedy Kiss Me Kate with Caroline Quentin and Chris Langham, three seasons of the ITV series The Grimleys, Celeb with Harry Enfield, three seasons of the BBC series Hearts and Bones with Damian Lewis, the episode of Jonathan Creek titled “The Problem at Gallowes Gate,” and a Boxing Day special of Agatha Christie’s Marple titled “4.50 From Paddington” with Geraldine McEwan and John She co-featured with Bill Nighy and Tom Courtenay in Prepared When You Are, Mr. McGill, a parody show by Jack Rosenthal. Along with Alesha Dixon, Bruno Tonioli, and Simon Cowell, Holden serves as a judge on Britain’s Got Talent. She joined the show in 2007.
She has appeared in episodes of British shows like EastEnders, Smack the Pony, Hearts and Bones, and Cutting It. In 2009, Holden showed up as Lizzie, the Ring Courtesan, in the BBC bazaar sitcom Huge Top. It was reported in April 2009 that the American network CBS had offered Holden a job as a one-time guest presenter on the daytime talk show The Early Show. She appeared alongside regular presenters Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez on June 1, 2009. Holden has since endorsed with CBS as an English reporter for The Early Show.
From 2009 until 2014 Holden co-introduced An Evening of Legends: With Phillip Schofield, the Sun Military Awards are presented annually on ITV. She aired her own three-part series, Amanda Holden’s Fantasy Lives, in January 2010, in which she tried out three of her ideal jobs.
Together with Chris Tarrant, Holden presented The Door in 2010. The documentary The Nation’s Favourite Bee Gees Song aired on ITV in 2011 with Holden narrating. Holden substituted for Lorraine Kelly in an episode of Lorraine on July 6, 2012. She got back to visitor present six further episodes of the show from 4 to 8 April and on 4 July 2016.
On ITV in 2012, Holden hosted the talent show Superstar. She hosted an episode of Dispatches on Channel 4 on March 24, 2014, about the treatment for stillbirths and miscarriages. During Holly Willoughby’s maternity leave, Holden co-hosted This Morning with Phillip Schofield from September 22 to December 18. She had some time off in January and February 2015 to record the England Has Ability tryouts. Christine Lampard subbed for Holden during this time, before the last option got back to the show from 2 Walk until 17 July 2015. She got back to Today in 2017, to co-present various episodes with Ben Shephard.
Give a Pet a Home, a six-part factual series that Holden co-hosted with the RSPCA to find new homes for animals, aired on ITV. In 2015, the show aired in April and May.
Holden was a member of the team that presented ITV’s Christmas telethon Text Santa on December 18, 2015. In 2016 she introduced I Have Something To Tell You, a real series for the W TV slot. In 2017, she played Miss Pentangle on CBBC’s The Worst Witch. In the year 2022, Holden played the role of Harriet Wallace in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. She started recording for the show in London during October 2021.
In 2021, she began showing up in another satire mockumentary series from Bo’ Selecta! designer Leigh Francis The program was known as The Holden Young ladies: Mandy & Myrtle and starred Francis as Amanda’s maternal grandmother, Myrtle, in elaborate costume and makeup. The show sent off on the E4 channel with 601,938 watchers and was rehashed on Channel 4, acquiring an adequate number of watchers to be recommissioned briefly series for 2022
Amanda Holden Movies and TV Shows
♦ 1999–2001 – The Grimleys
♦ 1999 – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
♦ 2000 – Happy Birthday Shakespeare
♦ 2000–2001 – Hearts and Bones
♦ 2001 – The Hunt
♦ 2002 – Celebs
♦ 2002–2004 – Cutting It
♦ 2003 – Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill
♦ 2004 – Mad About Alice
♦ 2006–2008 – Wild at Heart
♦ 2009 – Big Top
♦ 2013 – One Chance
♦ 2014 – Pudsey the Dog: The Movie
♦ 2017–2018 – The Worst Witch
♦ 2018 – The Keith and Paddy Picture Show
♦ 2019 – Plebs
♦ 2021 – The Holden Girls: Mandy and Myrtle
♦ 2022 – Neighbours