Amanda Holden has hit out at the cost of covid tests for travelling abroad, after spending £2,500 on tests for a family holiday to Portugal.
Amanda, 50, said she was fortunate enough to be able to spend the cash on the tests, but vowed to "never again" throw money away for the sake of a holiday abroad.
The Britain's got Talent star said: "Getting there cost over £2500 in tests.
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“I don’t want to rant on and on about it, but I think that is taking advantage of the British public.
“I’m in a position where I can afford to chuck that money. It’s awful. It’s a huge amount of money - that is literally chucking it away. Someone’s taking the p***.”
Mirror Online reports that Amanda said it was “worth” the fee to get away with her family, but said: “Never again am I paying that amount of money. There should be some kind of inquiry into that.
“It was worth it in the sense that we got away as a family and we were so fortunate to be away. I can’t moan about it because so many other people didn’t get away, and we got home and safe and all of that.”
She added that the tests are important for health reasons, and said: “If I’d chosen to I could have come home, and got in a queue at Faro airport and got one for 25 Euros, but I probably would have caught Covid because the queue was around the block."
Everton fan Amanda described the traffic light system as “stupid”, but confirms her family returned from Portugal before the country was moved from the green list to amber on June 8th.
She said: “We were lucky.
“Half the countries on an amber list... essentially we’d be safer if we went to those countries than we are in our own country, so what the hell.
“None of it makes any sense.”
