People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

In January 2010 Amanda Holden started a new three-part show called Amanda Holden's Fantasy Lives. Holden has since been signed up with CBS as a British correspondent for The Early Show. In 2011 Holden hosted one-off documentary The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song on ITV.

Among her roles are Mia Bevan in Cutting It Sarah Trevanion in Wild at Heart and the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie for which Amanda Holden was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award. Since 2007 Holden has been a judge on Britain's Got Talent. She is married to record producer Chris Hughes.