Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden stars in property renovation show Amanda And Alan’s Greek Job with comedian Alan Carr, who won The Celebrity Traitors in November last year
Shrewd Amanda Holden knew Alan Carr did well on The Celebrity Traitors before he told her — because she didn’t hear from him for two weeks.
The Britain’s Got Talent judge sussed her close friend’s success when Alan, 49, did not call her during the production of the show. The comedian usually rings Amanda every day so the actress quickly became suspicious during the spring, when filming took place at Ardross Castle in the Scottish Highlands.
Alan went on to win The Celebrity Traitors but, though he wasn’t allowed to tell anyone, Amanda, 54, had a hunch he at least “did well” on the programme. Speaking yesterday, she said: “I knew he must have done well because I didn’t speak to him for two weeks, normally we speak every day.
“He’s been around for so long, but everyone’s suddenly like, ‘Oh, I love Alan Carr’, and I think, ‘How is he a new thing to you? He’s always been this brilliant’.”
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Mother-of-three Amanda added: “My daughter Holly, who’s always loved him, said to me, ‘Everyone’s asking me about Alan’, and I say to them, ‘You’ve met Alan, he was in the back garden at our party, and you weren’t bothered about him then’.
“Alan’s literally brought them a cup of tea in bed or been on holiday with them. But now they’re really into him, it’s brought a whole new generation because of all the TikToks and the memes, which is lovely.”
Alan recently said Amanda, who was in popular drama Wild at Heart, would be “great” on The Celebrity Traitors. Amanda hinted she would want to be a traitor if she was going to do the programme, which airs on the BBC.
Alan himself was a traitor and fooled faithfuls comedian Nick Mohammed and TV historian David Olusoga in the show’s final moments. The TV presenter took home the £87,500 prize pot for cancer charity Neuroblastoma UK, in the first series of the British celebrity version of the show, which broadcast late last year.
Speaking to the Radio Times, Amanda reflected on the series and Alan’s triumph. The star, who was been a judge on Britain’s Got Talent since it began in 2007, continued: “I do love the cloak, I think I’d look like the woman from the Scottish Widows advert if I could customise it with a red lip.
“They’d make me a faithful though, and that’s boring. You don’t remember the faithfuls. You ask anyone in a few months, who else was in the show other than Alan Carr? But I couldn’t do it anyway because it clashes with Britain’s Got Talent.”
