{"id":785877,"date":"2026-02-24T13:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/785877\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:18:17","slug":"britains-got-talent-star-amanda-holden-gives-public-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/785877\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Got Talent star Amanda Holden gives public warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Ms Holden is known for starring as a judge on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent as well as presenting other shows, such as Cheat: Unfinished Business.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A household name across the UK, she lives in a four-bedroom thatched cottage near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 55-year-old shares two daughters, 20-year-old Lexi and 14-year-old Hollie, with her husband Chris Hughes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25881246.stern-bake-off-rule-given-nigella-lawson-mary-berry-prue-leith\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Stern Bake Off rule given to Nigella Lawson by Mary Berry and Prue Leith<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Amanda Holden. (Image: James Manning\/PA Wire)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Holden has warned fans about fraudsters impersonating her in an online scam after hearing from a Heart Breakfast listener who had been duped by someone pretending to be her.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Returning to the radio show on Monday (February 23), the presenter was contacted by a listener who explained he had once received a message he believed was from Amanda.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He began by praising the show and its hosts before recalling how he had been tricked.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;And yourself, Amanda, well, I believed you messaged me, but I think I got scammed by somebody in South Africa, so I&#8217;ve left it,&#8221; he told her.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Recognising the type of fraud he was talking about, the Britain&#8217;s Got Talent judge urged listeners not to be taken in by similar approaches.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25881362.hugh-laurie-hits-back-called-zionist-heated-row\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hugh Laurie hits back after being called a Zionist in heated row<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Amanda Holden. (Image: Tim Markland \/ PA Wire)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Yeah, no, I did a whole show on scammers and people trying to be me,&#8221; said Ms Holden.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;If anyone thinks they&#8217;re going to marry me or move in with me anytime soon, it&#8217;s rubbish, so stop paying people.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The caller went on to say: &#8220;I did have a heart from someone but I don&#8217;t think it was you.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Holden replied: &#8220;No babes, sorry, I&#8217;m sending you one now, though that&#8217;s real. This is me, this is not AI.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 55-year-old has previously presented an episode of Scam Interceptors, after con artists used her name and image in attempts to swindle victims out of large sums of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Holden is known for starring as a judge on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent as well as presenting other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-785877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116125807789994669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}