Watch as Amanda Holden reveals her first EVER tattoo – and husband Chris’s furious reaction
AMANDA Holden has revealed her first ever tattoo – and her husband Chris isn’t impressed.
The Heart Radio star, 53, showed off her first inking on today’s breakfast show after returning home from a holiday in Los Angeles.
The Britain’s Got Talent judge was in the States with daughter Hollie, 12, for half-term and they met up with her best friend, Jane.
Amanda told listeners: “I was having a cup of tea with my friend Sarah, and she was squashing a tea bag in her cup when I noticed something about her.
“I noticed something about her person that I was so shocked at but thrilled for her because this is something she’d always wanted to do.
“And I was like ‘Oh my gosh Sarah, I am going to do that,’ and she says, ‘you must do that’.
“Anyway, I go for dinner with Jane, and we were there with Hollie, Freya and Jack.
“They’re all children – I say children, they’re old. And I said to Jane, look at what Sarah’s done to herself.
“And Jane was like ‘Oh my gosh this is fabulous’. I said, ‘let’s do it’.
“She went, ‘you’re kidding’ and I said, ‘I’ve always been wholeheartedly against them’.
“And we got in the car, and we went, and we found a place.”
The parlour in question used to be a bar and had a huge pole in the middle of the room.
Upon returning home, her family failed to spot the two hearts she’d had tattooed onto her wrist.
“I dropped so many hints,” Amanda said. “I was, you know, obviously my husband just didn’t notice.
“And then yesterday, obviously my 18-year-old is home, I made a roast dinner.
“I was pretending to mop my brow because my tattoo is actually just on my wrist.
“Because, you know, I was sort of slaving over a stove as I was talking to Chris.
“I had my hand like that, just nothing. Anyway, Holly was losing her mind because she was obviously present for the tattoo moment, which didn’t hurt and took less than 30 seconds.”
Amanda admitted she expected Chris’s negative reaction, and it played out how she imagined it would.
She said: “First, he would say, it looks fake.
“Second, he said it looks naff.
“And third, he said, ‘Oh, what’s going to happen next? Where else are you going to get one? What else are you going to do? And now the children are going to want one,’ is what he said.”
Regardless of his view, Amanda was thrilled with her body art, which symbolises her two children Hollie and Lexi.
And she revealed she’s going to get a small third heart added at the bottom, perhaps to symbolise her son, Theo, who was tragically stillborn in 2011.
Listen to Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden weekdays from 06:30 – 10:00 across the UK and on Global Player