The presenter, who split with Amanda after her affair with Neil Morrissey, spoke for the first time about his marriage, saying that the highly publicised affair left him gripped by paranoia and that he lost it as the five year partnership broke down. "I felt angry and cuckolded." Les explained before defending accusations that Amanda had only married him to help her career.

Amanda’s singing career - May 04
Amanda Holden has embarked on a pop career despite not being blessed with a good voice.

The actress is recording the LeAnn Rimes hit How Do I Live? With Tin Tin Out in a recording studio in North London. The mixing desk staff are apparently trying their best to make her sound acceptable after a source was quoted as saying "she is making our ears bleed". Rather vivid, wouldn’t you say?

Amanda’s love of her life - 12/01/04
Amanda Holden has said that she has met ’the love of her life’ and wouldn’t mind marrying again.

She has been seeing Chris Hughes, a 30 year old music industry exec for several months and said ’he’s the man of my dreams’. She has known Chris for years before they got together, and ’went out for dinner and things went from there!’

Amanda’s musical Thoroughly Modern Millie is proving a hit in the West End and she will be back on the small screen soon in a new BBC1 sitcom called Mad About Alice, where she stars opposite Jamie Theakston. The characters have a small son, but have separated. Even though they both have new partners, there is still a spark between them - sounds good!

Redhead Holden - 07/07/03
St John’s Wood resident Amanda Holden has unveiled a new look - red hair.

The new look is for her title role in the West End production of musical Thoroughly Modern Millie.

The show is based on the 1967 Oscar winning film and will open at the Shaftesbury Theatre on October 21st.

Amanda wins libel - 01/05/03
Actress Amanda Holden has won libel damages against The Daily Mirror newspaper.

Amanda who now lives in St John’s Wood sued the Daily Mirror after the 3am column stated she was making diva like demands while filming Cutting It.

She has won an undisclosed but "substantial five figure sum"

The newspaper apologised through its solicitor, and agreed to pay the damages and her legal costs, accepting the claims were untrue and should never have been published


Holden’s song & dance - 07/04/03
Amanda Holden is set to star in the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie when it transfers to London’s West End...

Amanda, who has recently been meeting film agents in the US, will play a character called Millie Dillmmount that might strike a chord - she’s a young and ambitious woman from Kansas who moves to New York, determined to marry her much older boss and to dance to jazz.

The musical will be shown at the Shaftsbury theatre this autumn.

Can she sing?
We will soon find out the answer, as St Johns Wood gal Amanda Holden apparently is on the verge of signing to EMI.

According to a spokesman, Amanda is ’not planning to be the next Britney Spears or Kylie - she wants to do more grown-up pop.’ How fantastic.

A friend of the star has said that she has a ’brilliant voice’ and we may hear it soon, as the rumor is that the Chicago treadmill is after the blonde star.

All Girls Together - 18/02/03 - Courtesy of HEAT magazine
When she’s not partying, Amanda Holden has girly nights in with her mates.