To think Amanda Holden is out of control

[caroline161]

Am I the only one to think that she's completely over the top in this year's BGT, not being very funny when she thinks she is and I'm wondering if she won't have her contract renewed. Not to mention last night's swearing. I think there are better people. I wonder when Simon will realise it.

In all dystopian films, books, there are characters like AH. Botox'd, ott things that we gasp to. Her presence is a sign of the times I think.

Do the mean girls in the playground never grow out of it?

She talks a bit funny. It's like she has a few pebbles in her mouth or what.

She's the reason I don't watch BGT. I find her dreadful and puts me off the whole show.

This is not about her being a woman or what she looks like. It's about her being really much more over the top than she has ever been before. Trying to hard not with what she looks like but with the unfunny jokes. And it's about the tension between her and Simon not because she is a woman or what she looks like but because he is finding her over the top. This post was never to slate her being a woman or her age or what she looked like. Just to make that clear.

Do the mean girls in the playground never grow out of it?

That’s how I think of AH, I just think of her as that mean girl in the playground.

Why do people get het up about celebs getting slated. They get plenty of glory, it’s got to be balanced, surely.

The sexism is horrible.

Simon has a face full of Botox, fillets, shirt undone to his bollocks and everyone fawns over him.

A woman of 48 keeping slim and younger looking is ‘desperate’.

When she lost her baby and came back to work she was called everything from ‘fame hungry’ to ‘cold, desperate bitch’

Gary Barlow did the same a couple of years later and he was ‘brave, courageous, a trooper & strong’.

Oh ok, so now this thread is not about what she does or doesn’t look like. Oh no, Amanda’s crime this time, is that she’s “too over the top.”

Well the whole show is designed to be OTT fgs! It’s a Saturday night, entertainment-for-the- masses, variety talent show! It’s not bloody Panorama.

And as for poor old SC, being so embarrassed he has to “have a word in her ear.” Who cares frankly?

I haven’t watched this show for ages, but I can bet my boots SC is still wearing the same black: grey / white t-shirt or, if he feels like making a special effort, the unbuttoned to the waist white shirt ensemble, while trying his best to maintain his smirk.

If you watch an old episode of Jonathan Creek, the one where the jazz player pretends to be blind, she's in it with her old face when I pointed this out to DC, they didn't recognise her! Just tickled me!
I don't particularly care for Amanda or Aleisha - they both give me 'mean girl' and insincere vibes. I feel the same about Rochelle Humes.
David Walliams just needs to come out already! No one cares if he's gay/bi or anywhere in between!
Here endeth my character assassinations of all telly people. don't get me started on Cowell's face!!

Les Dennis is straight????

And as for Aleisha... wtf is it with her stupid 'one ridiculously enormous earring' style choice?

AH was a really good actress once upon a time. I remember liking her character in Hearts And Bones so much. And she got lots of praise for starring onstage in Thoroughly Modern Millie. She's probably made some bad career choices, and is now just playing an exaggerated version of herself.

I haven’t watched this show for ages, but I can bet my boots SC is still wearing the same black: grey / white t-shirt or, if he feels like making a special effort, the unbuttoned to the waist white shirt ensemble, while trying his best to maintain his smirk.

Cowell can't smirk any more - he's had too much work done so has to do weird things with this eyes to show emotion.

To show there’s no sexism, Simon Cowell should be included to balance it out. So really we shouldn’t criticise any celeb at all, because it’s sexist either way.

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"Tomorrow is the very last day of local Heart shows, before Heart breakfast goes national on Monday and drive becomes a single show covering huge regions. Many people will be working their final shift tomorrow. Sending every best wish to all who are affected."

That's really shit. I will miss Ed, Troy and Paulina. I won't be tuning in to Heart any more.

Britain's got what? YABU for watching it in the first place.

Haha I like her, if anyone is over the top it's David. Aleisha is a right bore don't know why she's even on the show

I think she is being dishonest about her age. She says she is 49 but I'm sure she was over 50.

was she in the Grimleys?

Mr Rolder (in a Black Country accent) was great though, wasn't he?
Reminded me of a pop singer, though.

No she ALWAYS been a year younger than i am.

Hang on. Im 49. So is she lying and saying she is older than she is?

I saw a photo of her in the media earlier this week and did not recognise her. Not remotely like the way she appears on tv.
Celebs are only that if we make them .
They are no better than the rest of us.

No, it was something to do with Simon Cowell.