The Brtains Got Talent judge, Amanda Holden has signed a £250,000 deal with US TV giant CBS the Mirror’s Fiona Cummins is reporting in an ‘exclusive’.
Ms Holden who appeared on CBS’s Early Show earlier this year as a co-anchor during a trip to the US partly to defend BGT against claims of the show exploiting contestant Susan Boyle and partly to promote herself will act as UK correspondant and is set to interveiw co-star and BGT boss Simon Cowell. A US TV source is also quoted by the Mirror as having added: “We absolutely love her. She has great charisma and a fantastic cut-glass English accent.”
The Blame game continues, over singer Susan Boyle and the deteriation in her health after she was admitted to a North London Clinic following coming second to dance troupe ‘Diversity’ in a televised talent show final.
Amanda Holden has been loyally defending Simon Cowell’s talent show ‘Britains Got Talent’ over in the US on Larry King’s news show broadcast by CNN, She denied the show exploited contestant Susan Boyle and then followed that up by accusing the media for the singers downturn of health. Holden, one of the shows 3 judges, stated it was the ‘falsehoods’ and ‘exagerrated stories’ in the press that ’stressed her out’ and stated she would most likely be released from the clinic in a few days. Doctors however, are saying boyle will need to be in the Priory clinic for weeks of treatment having suffered an emotional breakdown. Now, just to add fuel to the fire, Chat show supremo Michael Parkinson has waded into the debate having only a few weeks ago in March provoked condemnation for his critisim’s of the late reality tv star Jade Goody and the media’s role in her last month’s alive by blasting the Britains Got Talent show for its mis-handling of Susan Boyle. Boyle who suffers learning disabilities is a Church Volunteer in her small scottish home town and was then subjected to a world wide media frenzy after her appearance on the talent show. Parkinson stated it was “ridiculous” to expect anyone to go from a sheltered home life such as Miss Boyles to that kind of international exposure let alone anyone with “personal problems”.
Politicians have already voiced concern that shows like BGT are failing contestants and are calling for a greater duty of care to be placed upon broadcasters and production companies.
“Clearly Miss Boyle should have been better protected and better looked after.” Tory MP Nigel Evans. Commons culture, media and sport committee.
And just not to be left out.. Sun journalist Julie Burchill, has launched a ferocious attack on Michael Parkinson. In her column she branded Parkinson as a “senile sack of self-delusion” and followed that up with “obviously he has become confused about his finest hour – wrestling with a giant glove puppet on national TV – and instead remembers it as the single-handed defeat of Herr Hitler”.
My 2 cents worth:
So what is the bottom line here? well in my humble opinion you can’t hold the show responsible for everything… after all they didn’t hold a gun to Susan Boyles head did they? she was a willing participant in the show. One obviously hopes ITV and the producers gave Boyle as much advice as possible about how to handle the situation.
There is also the point of view that if they had been ‘ultra caring’ and decided that with boyles medical condition that she wouldnt be able to handle the publicity that surrounds the show and it’s contestants… and said ’sorry, your not allowed to take part’ would the world be patting them on the back and saying “Well Done”? Of course it wouldn’t, they would have been condemned and accused of discrimination.
So ultimately the show and it’s judges were damned if they let her take part and they were damned if they didnt.
…. and WOW, Amanda Holden is looking hotter than ever!
A US TV source is also quoted by the Mirror as having added: “We absolutely love her. She has great charisma and a fantastic cut-glass English accent.”
The Blame game continues, over singer Susan Boyle and the deteriation in her health after she was admitted to a North London Clinic following coming second to dance troupe ‘Diversity’ in a televised talent show final.
Now, just to add fuel to the fire, Chat show supremo Michael Parkinson has waded into the debate having only a few weeks ago in March provoked condemnation for his critisim’s of the late reality tv star Jade Goody and the media’s role in her last month’s alive by blasting the Britains Got Talent show for its mis-handling of Susan Boyle. Boyle who suffers learning disabilities is a Church Volunteer in her small scottish home town and was then subjected to a world wide media frenzy after her appearance on the talent show. Parkinson stated it was “ridiculous” to expect anyone to go from a sheltered home life such as Miss Boyles to that kind of international exposure let alone anyone with “personal problems”.
