{"id":168365,"date":"2025-09-29T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168365\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:13:09","slug":"amanda-holden-says-its-such-a-thrill-as-she-shares-weird-habit-with-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168365\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Holden says &#8216;it&#8217;s such a thrill&#8217; as she shares &#8216;weird&#8217; habit with husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heart Radio\u2019s Amanda Holden revealed the \u201cweird\u201d thing she gets her husband Chris Hughes to do, inspired by a funny moment from her childhood<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_Annotation-2025-09-29-130457.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Holden and Chris Hughes \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Amanda Holden said the &#8216;weird&#8217; habit &#8216;gives her a thrill&#8217; (Image: INSTAGRAM\/AMANDAHOLDEN)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/amanda-holden\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amanda Holden<\/a> has opened up about the &#8220;weird&#8221; thing she does with her husband Chris Hughes that gives her &#8220;such a thrill&#8221;. Back on Heart Radio&#8217;s Breakfast Show on Monday, the 54-year-old and her co-star Jamie Theakston asked listeners to send in the &#8220;<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">weird<\/a> family rules&#8221; they had in their household .<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">More specifically, Jamie said he wanted to hear stories about the &#8220;kind of thing that, at the time, seemed perfectly normal to you, but it&#8217;s only later when you look back on it and you think, &#8216;Well that was odd&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">Sharing one of her core relatable memories, Amanda said while it wasn&#8217;t a rule as such, she and her sister used to love being chased up the stairs by their father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">Wanting to follow tradition, the presenter admits she now does the same thing with her husband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">&#8220;I still to this day&#8230; my dad used to chase me and my sister up the stairs,&#8221; she shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">&#8220;We used to absolutely love it, and then I make Chris, my husband, do the same thing because it scares me so much, but I can&#8217;t stop laughing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2_Amanda-Holden-admits-she-sunbathes-NAKED-while-on-holiday-and-has-tried-to-join-the-Mile-High-Club.jpeg\" alt=\"Amanda Holden with her husband Chris Hughes \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Amanda Holden with her husband Chris Hughes (Image: INSTAGRAM)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">&#8220;And, you know, it&#8217;s like such a thrill because you don&#8217;t want to get caught because you&#8217;ll get tickled. But I still run and he goes, &#8216;I&#8217;m coming&#8217;- I used to love that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">On the same topic of conversation, she said her spouse and their children also jokingly pretend to be asleep when she comes into the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">The couple have been married for over 15 years, and they share two daughters; Lexi, 19, and Hollie, 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">It&#8217;s not the first time Amanda has given fans an insight into her family life while live on the airwaves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">Back in January, she jokingly urged listeners not to worry about her after revealing that Chris locked her in the garage at times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">During a discussion about darts champion Luke Littler, Amanda said she and her husband often played the sport in their home garage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2_g-lexihughes__-May-be-an-image-of-3-people-and-sundressAJPG.jpg\" alt=\"Amanda Holden \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Amanda Holden with her two daughters (Image: INSTAGRAM)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">In order to get better at the game however, she said he locks her in their garage until she scores the perfect 180.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">She shared: &#8220;If I can&#8217;t find Chris, he&#8217;s in the garage on the dartboard. I&#8217;ve told the nation before, please don&#8217;t worry for my safety, but Chris locks me in the garage until I score a 180. He won&#8217;t let me out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">Seemingly surprised by her admission, Jamie replied: &#8220;That&#8217;s sort of quite cruel, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">Explaining the positives, she continued: &#8220;Hmm, the garage is quite nice. I tell you what I did, I was in there for so long the other night I actually did a bit of a clear-out of the garage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">&#8220;After it was his turn, I started re-boxing and reorganising.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"mirror\">Heart Breakfast with Jamie and Amanda airs weekdays from 6.30am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heart Radio\u2019s Amanda Holden revealed the \u201cweird\u201d thing she gets her husband Chris Hughes to do, inspired by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7117,6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-168365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-amanda-holden","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}