Amanda Holden has set the record straight on reports of a rift between her and This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby. Rumours of a disagreement between the two were fuelled this week when Amanda posted a video on Instagram which many interpreted as mocking the This Morning presenter.
Holly returned to the This Morning couch this week after a two-week break, and addressed for the first time the situation with Phillip Schofield, who left the show after admitting an affair with a younger colleague.
Many said a video posted by Amanda mocked the emotional statement as she wore a similar outfit, adopted a similar pose and opened with 'I'm OK', echoing the statement Holly made 24 hours earlier.
Taking to Instagram today, Amanda wrote: "The story in The Sun today about Holly and I is completely made up, full of contradictions and just utter rubbish."
The Sun is running a story headlined Stars At War saying it has an inside take on the 'toxic feud' and the real reasons they don't get along.
She added: "Sadly, strong and intelligent women have for far too long been pitted against one another when we should all be celebrated in our own right."
She went on: "The 'rift' story now circulating as a result of this article - which I have woken up to this morning and was not checked for factual correctness - simply does not exist. There have been some huge assumptions made this week and everyone has feasted on them.
"These type of articles need to stop. The language around women (in most pieces I read every day) is laughable. It's so different to say how men are written about. Women are still expected to say and do nothing, suffer silently and just get on with it. And we do ... mostly.
"These stories are just there to distract us from the actual news. We are becoming a world which is gradually being eroded of all its best qualities - humour, backbone and truth."
