OHMYGOSSIP — Amanda Holden forked out £2,500 for COVID tests for a family holiday to Portugal.
The 50-year-old actress – who has children Hollie, nine, and Alexa, 15, with husband Chris Hughes – splashed out on the private tests to ensure her family could jet off on holiday earlier this year, and while she feels fortunate to have been able to afford them, she claimed the British public are being “taken advantage of”.
Speaking on ‘Alan Carr’s Life’s a Beach’ podcast, she said: “We went from the Friday to the Friday, but getting there cost over £2,500 in tests, which I don’t want to rant on and on about it, but I think that is taking advantage of the British public.
“I’m in a position where I can afford to chuck that money. It’s a huge amount of money – someone’s taking the p***.
“If I’d chose to, I could have got in a queue at Faro airport and got one for €25, but I probably would have caught COVID as well, because the queue was round the block.”
The ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ judge was happy to whisk her family away for a holiday, but admitted she would never spend that much again on coronavirus tests.
She added: “It was worth it in the sense that we got away as a family, because so many other people didn’t get away. But never again am I paying that sort of money. There should be some sort of inquiry into that.”
What’s more, Amanda admitted she likes to swim naked while on holiday and often serves lunch in the buff if she is in a private villa.
She said: “I never wear a bikini on holiday. But I wouldn’t mix with other nudists. There’s a difference. I have served the Sunday lunch naked. But no, I would never get my n***y out in public. In a private villa, yes.”
Source: VacationHunter.Online
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