Amanda Holden wins Britain’s Got Talent with the Hollie Rose show
AMANDA Holden has had a baby. The birth of a child is a joyous thing and the red-tops do not overstate the arrival on planet Earth of Hollie Rose:
The Sun (front page): “HOLDEN the baby – First pic of Hollie Rose”
The Mirror (front page): “HOLDEN THE BABY”
Daily STar (front page): “AMANDA MIRACLE BABY – FIRST PICTURE”
Of course this is not really the first picture of Hollie Rose. This is the first picture of Amanda Holden holding Hollie Rose. Holden is the cougar judge on Britain Got Talent, the pushy head girl telling the hapless amateurs at the school of showbiz where they are going wrong and, with any luck, reducing them to tears.
It’s all about the presenter. Holden invests in her role as expert here to help your lowly lives by presenting her child for us to gaze upon.
The Sun reports:
A friend said last night: “Amanda wanted to release a happy picture to say, ‘Don’t worry, I’m back, I’m well again’.
Holden was unwell when she gave birth. A year earlier she lost a child in the later stages of pregnancy. All upsetting for her, of course. But was it so worrying for us proles, the slack-jawed masses whose own lives are so lumpen and flat that a star’s dead unborn child can spice it up with emotion? If Holden is brave the rest of us are pathetic.
Holden carries the epithet “brave” in all papers. She might be. But underlying the message it’s all about increasing audiences for Britain’s Got Talent and Amanda Holden. It’s her sympathetic back story. And if that makes you cry and wilt at home in front of the telly, so much the better. It’s interactive manipulation. It really is that cynical…
February 7th, 2012 at 11:46 am
…of course C&C…why did’nt I see it..
Woman Has Baby headlines…brilliant…
. with it’s happy ending the Amanda Holden story is almost Dickensian …just a shame the show goes on & on & on….
February 7th, 2012 at 7:28 am
Anorak… it’s a happy ending and in times of recession and depression we all love a happy ending! Smile…
February 6th, 2012 at 6:26 pm
C&C- it;s front-page news… a photo is released… Of course she suffered. But St Agatha was no singer…
February 6th, 2012 at 11:36 am
I usually watch X Factor and BGT because they’re shows we can watch together as a family (even though the blokes are usually on laptop and Blackberry all the way through).
We try not to be cruel but some of the auditions are hilarious and at least Ant and Dec are kind to everyone on BGT.
February 6th, 2012 at 11:15 am
Karen, I don’t watch any of the reality shows that feature the GBP. I hate seeing their dreams being shattered, however unrealisitic. Sometimes watch the finals….. but I enjoy the zleb reality shows, they know what they’re doing and if they end up looking dimmer and dafter than they would like then tough!
Have met David Walliams socially a few times,(name drop name drop!) he’s okay. Not riveting but not bad!
February 6th, 2012 at 10:05 am
I don’t think I’ll be watching BGT this time. I can’t stand David Walliams – he gives me the creeps, and Alesha Dixon gets annoying after a couple of minutes.
February 6th, 2012 at 10:04 am
Agree its headline news because she’s famous…. but we all knew about her pregnancy because she’s in the public eye so we’re all interested in the outcome. Hence headline news.
Far more relevant to most of us than Frankie whathisname from CBB getting another tattoo or Cheryl Cole turning her hair blond which ruled before that!
February 6th, 2012 at 10:02 am
…how that poor baby managed to squeeze her way out is a bloody miracle !
February 6th, 2012 at 10:01 am
A friend said last night: “Amanda wanted to release a happy picture to say, ‘Don’t worry, I’m back, I’m well again’…….what I want to know …is how can we tell when Amanda Holden is not happy in a pic…she is always smiling.she can’t do anything but…. seems like allegedly.. she was born with unatural levels of botox in her body
February 6th, 2012 at 9:43 am
come on C&C, I think you are purposely missing the point the article is making…Amanda Holden having a baby is hardly headline news or heroic …apart from the fact she is the presenter of BGT……even a slack jawed prole like me can see that.
February 6th, 2012 at 9:08 am
The media may be cynical but all the women out there who’ve lost babies at some point in pregnancy or by still birth were rooting for Amanda Holden and wanted to know the outcome…. we all felt for her and wanted her to have a successful birth after her past losses. Nothing to do with fame, fortune or BGT.
Empathy my dear Anorak, it’s called empathy…