Amanda Holden cuts a glamorous figure for her 50th birthday celebrations

Amanda Holden ringed in her 50th birthday celebrations in style on Tuesday. 

The Heart Radio presenter said she was ‘feeling very spoilt’ by her husband Chris Hughes and daughters Lexi, 15, and Hollie, nine. 

While many friends gifted Amanda beautiful bouquets of flowers, Simon Cowell, 61, poked fun at her age by delivering a walking frame.  

Amanda took to her Insta stories with a cocktail in hand while wearing £150 silk red pyjamas, surrounded by flowers and a huge cake from Heart FM.   

She wrote: ‘How did This happen! Half a century.. time flies…Thank you for all your kind & loving messages today… my husband Chris and my gorgeous girls have spoiled me rotten and it’s still going. 

‘My friends have sent the most hilarious messages & presents and made this day extra special… I can’t wait to celebrate in a HUGE way when we can… I’m 50 all year and all year we’re gonna party. Hang on to your loved ones. It’s nearly over.’

Amanda also uploaded a snap of the walking frame which came complete with a yellow bow and message from Simon, which read: ‘Dear Amanda, Though you might need this. Love, Simon x’.

She wrote: ‘Thank you to my hilarious friend @simoncowell for my wonderful gift’. 

The BGT judge shared a glimpse of her ‘amazing’ handmade cake which took 1,000 hours to make. 

A host of Amanda’s celebrity pals took to Instagram to wish her a happy 50th. 

Tamzin Outhwaite uploaded a photo montage and wrote ‘Happy Birthday to my beautiful friend’, with Alesha Dixon and Piers Morgan also uploaded snaps of the pair.

Amanda’s birthday celebrations comes after she was reported to police for making a 215-mile trip from London to Cornwall during lockdown.  

The Britain’s Got Talent judge went to see her parents after she got a ‘distressing phone call’ from her stepfather Les Collister on the weekend before her 50th birthday.

Amanda took a black Mercedes from Richmond to a small hamlet near Bude to see the 75-year-old and her 71-year-old mother Judith on Friday – it is believed she had not seen the pair for a year prior to the visit. 

Devon and Cornwall Police had previously warned visitors that they would face a fine for breaking lockdown restrictions but a source has since told The Sun: ‘Officers turned up at [Amanda’s] parents’ this afternoon to ask about the visit.

‘As they left they said this would be the end of the matter.’    

Friends of Amanda said although she knew she should not have made the journey, she was so concerned about her parents’ welfare she felt she had no option.

One said: ‘Amanda got a call on Friday afternoon and felt she had no other choice but to get down there as quickly as she could.

‘Because of the issues involved with their health, she knew she had to go – there was no way she couldn’t.

‘She knows she has done something wrong and she is regretful but until you are in that moment, how can you judge?

‘In order to ensure she posed as little risk as possible, she drove alone, leaving her husband and daughters at home.

‘She did not come into contact with anyone else.’