Amanda Holden has spoken out on the affair she had with Neil Morrissey at the turn of the century. The actress and Britain’s Got Talent judge cheated on her husband, actor Les Dennis, with Morrissey in the early 00s, and now says that he unfairly took a lot of the blame for it.
Speaking to Good Housekeeping, she said:
“I don’t believe women have affairs for no reason. Women don’t seek sex – we seek love and affirmation. If a woman has an affair, there is normally a problem in their marriage.
“Neil rightly or wrongly got loads of stick. I feel like it was my fault – I was the one who was married.”
Amanda Holden has defended Neil Morrissey (ITV)
She added:
“I want to change the general perception of him, as he was very caring and very loving and very worried about me because I lost so much weight. He used to cook for me and look after me and babysit the dogs.”
However, she admitted that their relationship would have added much sooner if they weren’t famous. “We were thrown together when I ended the marriage, or at least moved out,” she said.
“Our relationship continued longer than it would have done had we not been so in the public eye, because we had no-one else to turn to.”
