Amanda Louise Holden is an English media personality, actress, and singer. Holden grew up in Bishop’s Waltham and took an interest in acting and musical theatre while at school.
Holden’s first television appearance was as a contestant on the game show Blind Date in 1991. From 2006 to 2008, Holden appeared as Sarah Trevanian in three series of ITV’s Wild at Heart co-starring Stephen Tompkinson.
Who is Amanda Holden’s first husband Les Dennis?
Leslie Dennis Heseltine is an English television presenter, actor, and comedian. He presented Family Fortunes from 1987 until 2002. Leslie married actress Amanda Holden on 4 June 1995. They had a temporary split in 2000 when Holden’s affair with actor Neil Morrissey was exposed in the press, before eventually separating in December 2002 and divorcing in 2003.
As a comedian, Dennis performed in social clubs all around the northwest of England. He was given his earliest opportunities in his home city of Liverpool, in his autobiography, he later credited husband-and-wife theatrical agents Stuart and Dorene Gillespie with discovering him.
