TALENT SCOUT - 'I'D LOVE MY FAMILY TO BE THE NEW KARDASHIANS'

AMANDA HOLDEN ON LETTING CAMERAS INTO HER HOME AND GEARING UP FOR THIS YEAR'S BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT

- LYNNE HYLAND & JEN PHARO

The heels, the hair, the hemline – we’re definitely getting the full Glamanda Holden treatment today. “It’s my style mantra, I’m never knowingly understated,” she beams, settling down in a posh penthouse hotel suite. It’s these eye-popping looks that have turned Amanda’s morning arrival at Heart Radio into a catwalk, with paps eager to snap whatever the presenter is – or is not – wearing that day.

“It does make me laugh what the press write,” she says, clearly not put out in the slightest. “I’m always ‘flaunting’ or ‘parading’ when I’ve got a miniskirt on. I’m like, ‘I’m not flaunting. I’m walking.’ The language in the stories is so weird. You know, ‘As she struts, braless, with her blonde tresses blowing in the wind…’”

There is one matter she’d like to put straight for the record, though. “I’m not braless. The fact is, I’m wearing SKIMS [bras], but my nipples are always affected by the cold. There’s nothing I can do about it. It’s like the Princess And The Pea – 20 mattresses down and you still see my nipples. They show through anything. They’re like my compass. Point away, I’ll never get lost.”

You can expect to see more of this irrepressibly cheeky humour in Amanda’s new Sky History show which she describes as “Horrible Histories for adults”. It covers the bedroom antics of everyone from Romans to Regency, and it sounds as though Amanda wishes she could have lived in the age of a saucy toga party herself. “We’ve gone backwards, not forwards. I think everyone was having a much nicer time. Nothing was off the table.”