Neil Morrissey makes risqué comment about controversial affair with Amanda Holden
Neil Morrissey has made a risqué comment about his controversial affair with Amanda Holden.
The Men Behaving Badly actor had a five-week affair with the BGT judge while she was still married to Les Dennis.
Holden, 52, and Dennis, 70, were married between 1995 and 2003, having met on a stage show production of The Sound of Music.
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However, the pair ended up splitting in 2000 after her affair with Neil Morrissey was brought to light.
They officially separated in 2002 and divorced a year later.
Holden previously called it the ‘worst time of her life’.
Speaking to the Express in 2009, she said: “I found the fall from grace incredibly hard to deal with.
“I can’t bear not to be liked. Then I had an affair and overnight turned into this awful person.
“There are no hard feelings with Les. I wish him the best but we’ve both moved on.”
Holden also told the Daily Mail: "I brought it on myself, I appreciate that, but nothing will ever be as bad again. It was a very dark time. It got to the point where I felt I could hardly breathe.
"Les proved to be my saviour. Ironically. So the person I'd hurt the most in the world was the one who was there for me."
Morrissey opened about the affair in a 2014 interview on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories.
He said: "I feel sorry for how the situation was dealt with and I feel sorry for how emotional Les seemed to become.
"It was very difficult for him and for that I'm sorry.|
When asked by Morgan if he had ever apologised to Dennis, he replied: "No, I didn't. I'm not positive over what there is apologise about. I don't know what the whole situation was, to be perfectly fair to everybody."
And now, the actor has spoke about it on a recent episode of the Restless Natives podcast with Martin Compston and Gordon Smart.
Morrissey provided listeners with three pieces of life advice: “Don’t p*** into the wind.
"A gentleman’s socks should always match his shoes.
"Don’t f*** a game-show host’s wife.”
Holden married her second husband Chris Hughes in 2008, and now has two kids with the record producer.
In another 2013 interview with Good Housekeeping, the Britain’s Got Talent judge defended Morrissey, who she says ‘got loads of stick’ at the time.
She said: “I don’t believe women have affairs for no reason.
“Women don’t seek sex - we seek love and affirmation. If a woman has an affair, there is normally a problem in their marriage. Neil rightly or wrongly got loads of stick.
“I feel like it was my fault - I was the one who was married.
“I want to change the general perception of him, as he was very caring and very loving and very worried about me because I lost so much weight. He used to cook for me and look after me and babysit the dogs.
“We were thrown together when I ended the marriage, or at least moved out. Our relationship continued longer than it would have done had we not been so in the public eye, because we had no one else to turn to.”
Topics: Celebrity, Amanda Holden
Anish Vij