Amanda Holden has vowed to keep wearing revealing dresses on TV despite a barrage of complaints – because she has the blessing of her mum.
Heart Radio DJ Amanda is preparing to plummet 10,000 feet for a charity skydive with Judith, 69.
And the proud mum is encouraging of her 48-year-old daughter’s famous plunging necklines. Amanda says: “She said, ‘Ooh, let them talk. You look better than girls half your age.”
But mum does not share her daughter’s love of skimpy outfits, despite Amanda and daughter Lexi, 13, culling half her wardrobe recently.
Amanda, who won Rear of the Year, explains: “When she was 48 she wouldn’t have dared wear a mini skirt, because she’s of the era where you wouldn’t dare get your knees out if you were nearly 50.
"Whereas I look at Kylie and J-Lo and think, well if she’s still doing it, I’m still doing it.”
Mum Judith is on strict instructions from bosses at Global radio to ensure there are no four letter outbursts next week when the pair, along with Amanda’s sister Debbie, leap from a plane travelling at 120mph for a live segment on Amanda’s Heart Breakfast show.
While spooked on Britain’s Got Talent this year, Amanda slipped up with an accidental swear live on air and received 56 Ofcom complaints.
Promising she would undergo full hair and make-up prior to next week’s jump to raise money for Global’s Make Some Noise campaign, Amanda vows she will even reapply her lips while falling.
During wind machine training, where Amanda was “blown up a tube like a rat”, she says: “I never stopped smiling and my lips were stuck to my teeth. It’s quite drying up in the air. I might actually have to reapply lip balm halfway down.
“I’d actually do it naked if someone donated £1million,” she said, adding that pals Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan have promised to donate. “But I’d keep my bottom half covered.
“If I could do it in heels, I blinking would, I can walk better in heels. My biggest worry is landing on my award-winning bottom without damaging it. I’m considering insuring it before I land.”
The family are dedicating their jump to Amanda’s grandma, Ethel, who died last year aged 97.
“If she’d been alive today she probably would have done it as well,” says Amanda. “We’ll be close to her anyway, as we’ll be close to heaven so we’ll give her a wave and then jump out.”
Heart Breakfast’s Amanda Holden is preparing to take part in Heart’s Big Skydive for Global’s Make Some Noise – a charity which helps disadvantaged children and young people. To donate £10, £20 or £30 text AMANDA10, AMANDA20 or AMANDA30 to 70766 or visit heart.co.uk.
