Amanda Holden has signed a lucrative deal with Netflix to front a brand-new dating show, MailOnline can exclusively reveal.
The Britain’s Got Talent judge, 53, is the latest big name celebrity to secure a series with the streaming giant after former This Morning host Holly Willoughby, 43, was confirmed to present new show Bear Hunt and Emma and Matt Willis are preparing to launch the UK’s first season of Love Is Blind.
She will begin filming the new show, which is about love and relationships, this summer in Spain, describing the venture as her ‘dream job.’
It comes 31 years after Amanda first appeared on TV as a contestant on Cilla Black’s Blind Date, making the signing even more significant, as she celebrates a full circle moment in her long-lasting career.
After carving out an acting career in the 90s starring on TV shows such as The Bill, Jonathan Creek and Wild at Heart, Amanda has now expanded her repertoire to front Sky documentary Sex: A Bonkers History, BBC travel show Amanda and Alan’s Italian Job and now, her very own Netflix series.
Amanda Holden has signed a lucrative deal with Netflix to front a brand-new dating show, MailOnline can exclusively reveal
She will begin filming the new show, which is about love and relationships, this summer in Spain, describing the venture as her ‘dream job’
The Britain’s Got Talent judge is the latest big name to secure a series with the streaming giant after Holly Willoughby was confirmed to present new show Bear Hunt
Amanda told MailOnline: ‘It is my dream job, if I could have manifested a job… this would have been it.
‘It is the job I have wanted my whole life and it’s finally happening. I’m going to be filming the show over the summer. It is my own thing and it’s the genre of it, it’s what I’ve always wanted.’
The Heart Breakfast host recently expressed her ambitions to present her own dating show, saying she would even allow her daughters Alexa, 28, and Hollie, 12, to feature on it as contestants.
He said: ‘The dream for me is to have a dating show. I wouldn’t let my girls go on Love Island but if they wanted to go on a dating show, I would let them.’
The star was just 19 when she took part in Blind Date, telling viewers that her ideal man would be film star Jack Nicholson.
She didn’t find her dream man on that occasion, instead Amanda had to wait 17 years before marrying her second husband, music executive Chris Hughes – the father of her two children – in 2008.
The Britain’s Got Talent judge, who was previously married to comedian Les Dennis, says the secret to their long-lasting relationship is having a laugh together.
She told The Mirror: ‘The main secret behind a successful marriage is to have a bloody good sense of humour. Plus, I really fancy Chris.
After carving out an acting career in the 90s starring on Wild at Heart, Amanda has now expanded her repertoire to front Sky documentary Sex: A Bonkers History and BBC’s Amanda and Alan’s Italian Job (pictured with co-star Alan Carr)
The Heart Breakfast host recently expressed her ambitions to present her own dating show, saying she would even allow her daughters Alexa and Hollie to feature on it as contestants
The star was just 19 when she took part in Cilla Black’s Blind Date, telling viewers that her ideal man would be film star Jack Nicholson
Amanda has previously said the success to her long-lasting marriage with husband Chris Hughes is ‘having a bloody good sense of humour’
Mother-of-two Amanda recently told MailOnline she often tears up judging the acts on Britain Got Talent because she remembers being in the same positioning and auditioning in the early years of her career
‘We’ll be eating dinner in a restaurant, he’ll go to the loo, then I’ll look up and catch a glimpse of a man and think he’s fit. Then I’ll realise, ‘Gosh, that’s my husband.’
Amanda recently told MailOnline she often tears up judging the acts on Britain Got Talent because she remembers being in the same positioning and auditioning in the early years of her career.
She said: ‘I’m always on the edge of crying, I don’t know what it is. I think I remember how I started, standing on stand auditioning.
‘I remember those days and the nerves and hope you had in your heart. As romantic as that sounds, I will never forget it.
‘I am an actress despite the fact I have covered every other genre in this industry, first and foremost I am an actress so that’s the most important thing to remember when I’m in that judging seat.’
