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Amanda Holden circus drama Big Top axed - BBC News


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Amanda Holden circus drama Big Top axed
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Amanda Holden's circus sitcom Big Top has been cancelled by the BBC after just one series. The show, revolving around the performers of a travelling circus, ...
Amanda Holden's Big Top axed by BBCNME.com
Holden set to see two series cancelledIreland Online
Amanda Holden's new TV comedy has been axed.stv.tv
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Posted on February 24, 2010, 10:33 am

Simon Cowell bans Britain's Got Talent judges from talking - stv.tv


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Simon Cowell bans Britain's Got Talent judges from talking
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Morgan told the Daily Star that he and Amanda Holden were under strict instructions to keep quiet about the show. Piers explained: "Simon has banned us from ...
PIERS MORGAN SAYS LOVE HAS CHANGED SIMON COWELLDaily Star

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Posted on March 2, 2010, 2:06 am

Johnny Depp Goes "Mad" for New Role - CBS News


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Johnny Depp Goes "Mad" for New Role
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Special correspondent Amanda Holden spoke with director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp about their recreation of Alice in Wonderland, in which Depp plays ...

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Posted on February 25, 2010, 10:24 am

Amanda Holden reveals breast cancer scare - Now Magazine Online


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Amanda Holden reveals breast cancer scare
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But she only got it checked in November while filming ITV show Fantasy Lives in LA. 'I'll never forget the moment the doctor felt my breast and uttered the ...

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Posted on February 28, 2010, 2:04 pm

Amanda Holden feared she'd 'die like Jade Goody' after breast cancer scare - Mirror.co.uk


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Amanda Holden feared she'd 'die like Jade Goody' after breast cancer scare
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Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden yesterday said she feared she might die after a cancer scare. ...
Amanda Holden's cancer fearstv.tv

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Posted on February 22, 2010, 1:38 am

Waste not, want not for Amanda Holden's eco 'upcyclers' - Mirfield Reporter


Waste not, want not for Amanda Holden's eco 'upcyclers'
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A GRANDMOTHER who spent a day turning trash into treasure with TV star Amanda Holden has won a mini-break for her efforts. ...

Posted on February 26, 2010, 3:39 am

Holden's BBC circus sitcom axed - The Press Association


Holden's BBC circus sitcom axed
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Amanda Holden's circus sitcom Big Top has been cancelled by the BBC after just one series. The show, which also starred John Thomson and Tony Robinson and ...
Big Top Gets ChopOntheBox (blog)

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Posted on February 25, 2010, 10:14 am

Amanda Holden Biography

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Amanda Holden
Born Amanda Louise Holden
16 February 1971 (1971-02-16) (age 39)
Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, England
Occupation Actress/Presenter
Years active 1991 – present
Spouse(s) Les Dennis (1995–2003)
Chris Hughes (2008–present)
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Amanda Louise Holden (born 16 February 1971) is an English actress who is well known for her role as Mia Bevan on Cutting It, Sarah Trevanion on Wild at Heart, her marriage to Family Fortunes presenter Les Dennis and for being a judge on Britain's Got Talent.

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Biography

Holden was born in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire. She was brought up in the village of Waltham Chase, by her mother Judith Mary Harrison and stepfather Leslie Drew Collister. She joined the Bishop's Waltham Little Theatre Company when she was nine, and credits Angie Blackford as influential in her early stage career. When she was 16 the family moved to Bournemouth, Dorset and ran a small B&B while Amanda herself studied Drama and English literature A levels with Terry Clarke and Charles Lamb at the Jellicoe Theatre, now part of The University of Bournemouth. She successfully auditioned for the independent drama school Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in the Wood Green area of North London when she was 18, graduating in July 1992.

Television career

Her first television appearance was as a contestant on the UK game show Blind Date in 1991, since which she has become a familiar face on British television. Holden is well known for her role in the ITV drama Wild at Heart as Sarah Trevanion. She is also known for being a judge on Britain's Got Talent alongside Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell. She has also appeared on various British comedy and drama series such as Smack the Pony, EastEnders, Hearts and Bones, Cutting It and as a co-star with Harry Enfield in comedy series Celeb.

In April 2009, it was reported that the US network CBS had offered Holden the job of one time guest presenter on The Early Show, a daytime talk show.1 Holden confirmed that she would host the show,2 and presented alongside regular presenters Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez on 1 June.3 Holden has since been signed up with CBS as a British correspondent for The Early Show.

In July 2009, Holden became a gossip columnist for the News of the World's celebrity orientated magazine Fabulous.4

Amanda trained for a month to be a midwife for Out Of My Depth which was aired on 14th December 2009.

In January 2010, Amanda started a new three-part show called Amanda Holden's Fantasy Lives. In the first episode, she was training to be a Showgirl and she was very relieved when she found out that her fellow Britain's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell was not watching her perform her dance routines. Then in the second episode she trained to be a Hollywood stuntwoman, doing a 30 foot high jump, stunt-driving, stunt-fighting and being set on fire.

Acting career

Holden has appeared in several stage musicals and in 2004 was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in the West End production of Thoroughly Modern Milliecitation needed, which closed because she wouldn't take a pay cut, even though the rest of the cast had all agreed in order to keep the show running.

She appeared in the ITV1 drama Wild at Heart, alongside Stephen Tompkinson. The first series aired in 2006 and a second series followed in early 2007. Series three ran from 20 January to 9 March 2008, after which Holden left the program.

She has since also appeared as Lizzie the Ring Mistress in the sitcom Big Top(BBC1, 2009). Though this programme turned out to be a ratings disaster and was cancelled after only one series.

Holden's other TV credits include three series of the hit comedy Kiss Me Kate alongside Caroline Quentin, three series of the ITV comedy series The Grimleys, Celeb with Harry Enfield, the critically acclaimed BBC series Hearts and Bones alongside Damian Lewis, the Jonathan Creek episode "The Problem at Gallowes Gate" and a Boxing Day special Marple alongside Geraldine McEwan and John Hannah. She also co-starred with Bill Nighy and Sir Tom Courtenay in Ready When You Are, Mr McGill, Jack Rosenthal's classic comedy drama.

Personal life

Holden married the comedian Les Dennis in 1995. They separated in December 2002 when Dennis discovered Holden was having an affair with actor Neil Morrissey, they divorced in 2003.5 On 21 January 2006, Holden gave birth to her first child, Alexa "Lexi" Louise Florence Hughes.6 Amanda married record producer Chris Hughes at Babington House7, Somerset, in December 2008 with former Formula One racing driver David Coulthard acting as the best man.

Amanda is an Everton F.C. supporter,8 expressing her dismay in May 2007 on ITV's Parkinson to Everton's 4–2 loss to Manchester United after leading 2–0. She was the face of Everton's "Breast Cancer Campaign" in 2007. During an interview on ITV's This Morning on 29 May 2009 she expressed her disappointment when finding out she could not attend the following day's FA Cup Final between Everton and Chelsea because it was on the same day as the Britain's Got Talent final. However, Holden was seen on ITV coverage of the final at Wembley just prior to the final.

Holden ran the London Marathon in 4 hours and 13 minutes9 on 13 April 2008, in the name of the Born Free Foundation,10 having collected public and celebrity sponsors online. Amanda is a vegetarian.11

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