Les opened up to his younger co-star about the beak-up of his marriage to first wife Lynne – who he had wed just three years after Amanda was born – and his guilt about how rarely he saw his son Philip.
But there was a tender side to Amanda’s feelings about the comedian who was some 16 years her senior: “He seemed sad, quiet and troubled and I instinctively wanted to help,” Amanda wrote.
Sadly, the couple separated five years later after it emerged that Amanda had been cheating on Les with her Happy Birthday Shakespeare co-star Neil Morrissey.
Amanda, who turns 54 today (Sunday, February 16) and Les were purely platonic friends for a long while: “ I don't think I consciously fancied him at this stage,” she recalled.
Reminiscing about the very early days of their relationship, Amanda Holden says that her first feeling about Les Dennis was that he needed “mothering.”.
