Amanda Holden did Zoom parents' evening in swimming costume due to hot weather
Amanda Holden revealed she attended a parents' evening on Zoom wearing a swimming costume while sipping on a glass of wine because of the hot weather. The 54-year-old Britain's Got Talent star appeared on Good Morning Britain and revealed her child's teacher said she was 'jammy' as they were stuck at school.
"Well, instead of a bikini, I did cover up and wear a swimming costume, can I say," she confessed. "But it was so hot, and I balanced the iPad here (at her neckline), so they had just this view. But every teacher was like, 'Oh, you're so jammy', because they were all stuck in a stock cupboard somewhere.
'What I didn't say is that I had a sneaky little rose under my deck chair as well to get through it.' During the conversation, she also discussed her thoughts on the ongoing BGT series.
She said she wanted a group such as the Post Office Choir, a group of people impacted by the Horizon scandal which saw hundreds of subpostmasters wrongly convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting, to win this year's edition.
Amanda continued: "You know me, I'm not one for sitting on the fence, and I've always said that I would love our Britain's Got Talent winner this year to be a group of people.
'Because it would be amazing for the money to be divvied out amongst all of them, and for the joy to be spread, and to be at the Royal Variety, I think for a choir or a large group of people, would be amazing.'
Amanda recently opened up about the biggest problem of being a mother and wife to her loving family. The star shares daughters Lexi, 19, and Hollie, 13, with her husband Chris Hughes.
The star recently saw her eldest child leave the nest to attend university - but she has been back recently amid a break in the semesters. And while Amanda says she loves to take care of her family and make them dinner each night, the range of culinary requirements can leave her working up a sweat in the kitchen.
Speaking about having to cook individual meals for her family, she said to Hello! magazine: "I try to cook a family meal every night.
"It's been great recently, because Lexi's been home from university, so we've been back to a family of four. And I'm obviously a vegetarian. Lexi's practically vegan. Chris and Holly eat meat, so I cook, but I have to make like four different meals."
She went on to admit she not been the best at teaching her daughters how to cook for themselves. She revealed: "They're [Hollie and Lexi] getting into the swing of cooking.
"I've been a bit rubbish at teaching them how to cook, because I've always cooked, but they're good preppers, and they tidy up after me."
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