Amanda Holden returned to work in typically dramatic fashion on Monday morning, with the aid of a scooter.
Last week, Amanda broke her leg while on holiday in Cyprus, which required surgery so doctors could fit her with a metal plate.
Making an entrance as she returned to the Heart breakfast show, Amanda posted a slow-motion video of herself on Instagram, rolling through the office on her scooter, while swishing her hair and posing to Chamillion’s Ridin’.
During the show, Amanda also told all about the accident which left her in need of surgery on her leg.
“I was in Cyprus – I didn’t really want to tell everyone where I was at the time because I didn’t want [paparazzi] shots of me hobbling about and I didn’t want Stavros Flatley to come running to look after me with loads of blinking sweets and stuff – bless them,” she explained.
“But anyway it was one of those children’s inflatable assault course in the sea. My eldest daughter was on a school trip and so Hollie was on her own with me and Chris and she was desperate to get on this thing.”
She continued: “Obviously if you’ve seen my husband’s hair, it’s fabulous, he did not want to get his hair wet so he was on the sun lounger and Mummy said ‘do you know what, I won’t read my book and have an Aperol Spritz like normal, I’ll try and be a good mother’.
“So I went on this assault course and I went round and round loads of times on my hands and knees like the geriatric I am and then there were these kind of kids who were bombing it round and in the end they bashed in to Hollie and I kind of said ‘excuse me’, I was looking round for their mum and dad going ‘come on you can’t do that on this’. And they winded Hollie, and she was upset and then I raised my voice to these little gits – am I allowed to say that? Sorry, apologies.
“And so she swam off and I was like ‘oh no I’m going to have to go after her’ And there were three stepping stones that I had previously crawled over. So I ran them really quick, made it and then when I got to the inflatable platform – obviously I’m in the sea, it was soaking wet, and I fell and I twisted my leg back on itself and I fell back in to the sea.”
Amanda added: “I knew [straight away] it had broken. I had never broken a single thing in my life and it felt like a shift. I mean I’ve pulled tendons and things before and it felt a little bit like that but worse.
“I felt sick and so I swam back one-legged, swearing under my breath, obviously because there were children present, trying to wave at Chris who was soaking up the sun.
“I had to have a general [anaesthetic] because they put in a metal plate, which is the best way to cure it apparently, and heal quickly.
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