Amanda Holden sends temperatures soaring in a tiny green bikini top while posing on a boat
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Amanda Holden has revealed that she has jetted off for an idyllic holiday with her family, working her best angles while perched on the edge of a white boat in a new Instagram snap.
Captioning her sun-drenched post: ‘And #breathe #familytime in the #sunshine,’ the star, 50, looked sensational in a tiny green bikini top teamed with a patterned beach coverup and a straw hat.
The Britain’s Got Talent star did not specify where she had jetted off to, but the crystal clear waters and blue skies suggest the Holdens have headed somewhere tropical.
Wow: Amanda Holden, 50, revealed she has jetted off for an idyllic holiday with her family, working her best angles while perched on the edge of a white boat in a new Instagram snap
Keeping the sunshine at bay behind a chic pair of sunglasses, the mother-of-two wore her glossy blonde hair loose and pouted while looking off to the left of the frame.
Amanda propped her leg up on the small boat’s deck, and in a second snap shared on her Instagram Stories, looked directly down the camera’s lens.
The blonde beauty was also sporting an immaculate manicure and suggested to her social media followers that she had been joined abroad by her producer husband Chris Hughes and their two daughters, Alexa, 15, and Hollie, nine.
It comes after Amanda kicked off her new role as brand ambassador for retail giant JD Williams alongside Davina McCall.
Tropical: The Britain’s Got Talent star did not specify where she had jetted off to, but the crystal clear waters and blue skies suggest the Holdens have headed somewhere tropical
In June, JD Williams’ parent company N Brown Group announced the news that the celebrity duo would be the new brand ambassadors for JD Williams.
And earlier this week, both Amanda and former Big Brother host Davina, 50, looked sensational while working their best angles in a series of looks from the retailer - with Amanda straddling a bicycle while dressed in a figure-hugging white bodysuit.
Speaking about the collaboration, N Brown Group chief executive Steve Johnson said: ‘The strategic transformation initiatives we have enacted over the past two years have now started to deliver product revenue growth, with customers responding well to the new ranges across our core brands.
‘We have a number of exciting initiatives in the pipeline and today we have announced a new partnership with Amanda Holden and Davina McCall to be the new faces of JD Williams, leading some innovative new campaigns which will serve as a rich source of inspiration for our customers.
‘Whilst the external environment remains challenging, we have made a good start to the financial year and trading remains in-line with our expectations.’
All white everything: It comes after Amanda kicked off her new role as brand ambassador for retail giant JD Williams
Panerai Celebrates Twin Anniversaries With Yacht-Themed Radiomir
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Panerai is celebrating two 85th birthdays this year, the first for its Radiomir and the other for the brand’s classic yacht, Eilean.
As it turns out 1936 was a big year for Panerai, not only did the then Florentine-based nautical instrument maker produce its first Radiomir, but the classic yacht, Eilean, that has become something of a figurehead for the brand in the 21st Century, was being built in Fife, Scotland.
Of course, Panerai wouldn’t be aware of this until 2006, when sailing nut and then Panerai CEO, Angelo Bonati, bought the dilapidated boat and had it completely refurbished, before sending it around the world as a brand ambassador.
In the 70 preceding years, Eilean had been sailed around the Mediterranean and Caribbean and even had a starring role in one of the most iconic music videos of the 1980s before falling into disrepair.
To celebrate both birthdays, Panerai is dropping a new Radiomir Eilean that will be produced in limited quantities each year. The 45mm cushion-shaped case is made of something Panerai is calling Patina Steel, which certainly sounds as though its intended to age over time like bronze rather than remain fixed like stainless steel. The case is given a matte finish, while the caseband and caseback are engraved with Eilean’s name and year of manufacture.
The dial also features vertical striations, mimicking the teak planks of Eilean’s deck, while the Italian leather strap reproduces the traditional “lacing” found around the edges of the boat’s sails.
The Radiomir Eilean is available now via Panerai, priced $9,650 USD (£7,000 GBP) with Panerai producing 449 pieces each year reflecting the boat’s sail number.
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Royal Yacht or Fishing Trawler? Either Way, Even the Royal Family Isn’t Interested.
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LONDON — The naval architect who designed the Queen Mary 2 likened it to a “1950s fishing trawler, ” while a retired Navy admiral sniffed that the plans for it looked like an “oligarch’s yacht.” A Conservative Party grandee ridiculed it as a “complete waste of time, silly populist nonsense.”
The target of all of this venom is Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s latest pet project: a replacement for the royal yacht Britannia, mothballed in 1997. Mr. Johnson wants to spend 200 million pounds, or $280 million, to build a new Britannia — not as a plaything for the royal family, which has evinced no interest in another yacht, but as a floating brand ambassador for post-Brexit Britain.
“This new national flagship will be the first vessel of its kind in the world,” the prime minister declared recently, “reflecting the U.K.’s burgeoning status as a great, independent maritime trading nation.”
For Mr. Johnson, whose fondness for grand projects ranges from an island airport in the mouth of the Thames River (never built) to a sleek new fleet of double-decker buses for London (built), the appeal of a new Britannia is obvious. With Britain eager to strike trade deals around the world, it could dispatch the yacht to distant ports as a visible manifestation of the Global Britain that Mr. Johnson says was birthed by Brexit.