Amanda Holden shared some extremely candid comments about the breakdown of her marriage with Les Dennis.
You might not know but the Britain’s Got Talent judge and the comedian got married back in 1995 after meeting while working in theatre.
At the time, the pair were met backlash due to their wide age gap – Dennis was 40 and Holden was 23. But the relationship was rocked harder in 2000 when it was revealed she had an affair with Neil Morrissey.
The TV pair did try and mend their marriage – even appearing in a Richard and Judy interview together – but it just wasn’t meant to be and they split for good in 2002, divorcing the following year.
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Dennis previously revealed his plumber somewhat predicted his relationship’s outcome beforehand.
In a chat with Richard Herring, Dennis explained that everyone was ‘waiting’ for their marriage to go wrong, but joked that ‘nobody told [him]’ that they saw trouble looming.
He continued: "I remember one day in our house in Highgate, it was Grand National Day, and the plumber was there to fix the washing machine.
"And Amanda came running and said, ‘we need to put a bet on’, so [I gave her] ten quid and she went, ‘oh we need to put more than that on’. So I went, ‘twenty?’
"And the plumber went, ‘kids, eh?’ Maybe I should have known then."
Holden remembers the awkward moment too and seems to see the funnier side.
But in an older interview she said the fall-out from her affair with Line of Duty star Morrissey was the ‘worst time of her life’.
Speaking to the Express in 2009, she said: “I found the fall from grace incredibly hard to deal with. I can’t bear not to be liked. Then I had an affair and overnight turned into this awful person.
“There are no hard feelings with Les. I wish him the best but we’ve both moved on.”
She told the Daily Mail that she’d ‘brought it on’ herself and said Dennis was her ‘saviour’.
She added: “So the person I'd hurt the most in the world was the one who was there for me."
And in a 2013 interview with Good Housekeeping, she also defended Morrissey.
“I don’t believe women have affairs for no reason,” Holden said. “Women don’t seek sex - we seek love and affirmation.
"If a woman has an affair, there is normally a problem in their marriage. Neil rightly or wrongly got loads of stick.
“I feel like it was my fault - I was the one who was married.”
The star married her second husband Chris Hughes, back in 2008 and shares two kids with the record producer.
Topics: Amanda Holden, Celebrity, Sex and Relationships
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