Amanda Holden insists she doesn’t want her daughter “anywhere near" ‘Love Island’.
Amanda Holden doesn't want her daughter anywhere near Love Island
The presenter, 51 - who is mum to daughters Lexi, 17 and Hollie, 11 – has banned her eldest daughter from appearing on the ITV2 dating show, as she claims the programme "isn't really about love".
Speaking on her own show, 'Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden', Amanda declared: "I don't want my daughter anywhere near ‘Love Island’.
“It's just another way of being famous, isn't it really? It's not really about love. It's just about looking hot and just getting involved ... but I mean, it's just amazing telly but it's not really for love.
“Every now and then it works. Molly-Mae and Tommy Fury ... I mean that's a one-off, that's a fabulous story.”
Amanda previously revealed her model daughter Lexi was “obsessed” with the series and was worried about her following in the footsteps of Michael Owen’s daughter Gemma Owen, 19, who finished as runner-up on last year's series.
She said: “So this is becoming a bit of an obsession with my teenage daughter at home now.
“Which worries me slightly bearing in mind that Michael Owen's daughter is on it, and I’m like, ‘You ain’t ever going on it, Alexa!' "
Celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay also admitted he felt the same way and refused to watch ‘Love Island’ for fear of seeing one of his children on the show.
The father of five, 56, – who has Tilly, 21, Megan, 24, Holly, 23, Jack, 23, and Oscar, three, with wife Tana, 48 - said he won’t be tuning into the current winter edition, which is set in South Africa, just in case he spots one of his offspring.
He told the Radio Times magazine: “'Love Island' thinking that, one day, one of my daughters is going to be on there without telling me. I don’t watch, just in case.”
Listen to Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden weekdays from 6:30am – 10am across the UK and on Global Player.
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