Amanda Holden: 'I want to look like Joan Rivers'

Amanda Holden: 'I want to look like Joan Rivers'
Amanda Holden: 'I want to look like Joan Rivers' (Image credit: Doug Peters/PA Photos)

Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden has said she would like to age like Joan Rivers. The 38-year-old actress, who has had Botox, said that she did not see the point in growing old gracefully. Amanda told Heat magazine: "I agree with Simon Cowell; it's like cleaning your teeth - maintenance." She continued: "It's like getting your roots done. I think as long as you don't go stupidly over the top... I can move my face." Denying she has had further surgery, Amanda insisted: "I've never had my lips done, and it really p****s me off that everyone thinks I have. My lips are thinner now than they were when I was younger." She added: "I've had Botox, which I'm happy to admit. It's running out now, though - I need to go again." She told the magazine: "I've never had fillers either. My family all have very rounded faces, a bit chubby even. So I'm lucky that it's natural. "I think everything starts drooping around 45, so I know I'll succumb. I want to look like Joan Rivers." She added: "I don't see the point in growing old gracefully."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.