We reckon some viewers of Britain's Got Talent spend more time complaining to Ofcom than watching the actual show. The series - now on its 14th run - is never far from a headline about just how many people have complained to the TV regulator.
Unbelievably, over 24,000 people contacted Ofcom last month following dance troop Diversity's performance which covered the Black Lives Matter protests, showing just how racist some people in this country are (thankfully, Ofcom dismissed the complaints). Now, people have turned their attention to Amanda Holden's outfits, with 235 people complaining about her outfit on September 26 because it showed her nipples. It did not. The dress was low-cut, and whatever viewers thought were nipples was either a shadow or the wires holding the dress up. (By the way, even if her nipples had fallen out, it wouldn't warrant 235 complaints.)
So, following the furore, what did Amanda do on last Saturday's show? Cover up? Wear something a bit more demure? 'Dress her age'? Did she fuck! We're glad to report she absolutely did not do any of this - and wore an even more 'daring' dress. Amanda wore another show-stopping number, made up of a corset and a velvet thigh-high split. It was a dress that needed a lot of confidence to be worn, and the judge more than pulled it off.
But, obviously, people still complained about Saturday's outfit - either via Ofcom or by airing their grievances on Twitter. Because for years now, some members of the public have been taking the time out of their day to make official complaints about the dresses she wears. Astoundingly, in 2017, a low-cut Julien Macdonald dress she wore on the series became the most complained about TV moment of the year - yes, a woman showing cleavage really is that scandalous, according to the British public.
Even Amanda knows the attention her boobs get is ridiculous. Joking about the 235 complaints, she told MailOnline: 'I am seriously thinking my girls need separate representation to me, because they are known on their own. They don't need me, they're going to go off and do Piers Morgan's Life Stories on their own next year! They're going to do their own album, they're bringing out their own autobiography - The Truth Behind The Bra!'
'Think of the children, think of the children - show some respect,' people always seem to cry when criticising her outfits, but this seems ridiculous. It's parents up in arms, not the kids. If the people complaining had this mentality all the time, they'd never take their children or grandchildren to the beach, for fear of seeing skin. But of course this isn't the case. A woman confidently wearing a (what the tabloids would call) 'racy' dress is a different, more offensive, thing, Apparently.
Let's face it, young children aren't going to be sexualising her outfits - and they're only going to think a dress like Amanda's is sinful if they hear their parents tutting at the TV. And it's wrong to pass on the belief that however low-cut/high-cut an item of clothing is correlates to the amount of respect you should show a woman.
We also can't help but think Amanda wouldn't get half as much stick for wearing what she wants if she was younger. One of the tweets about her on Saturday simply read: 'Amanda Holden thinking she's a teenager' with a line of laughing face emojis. As if just because she's 49, her right to look good in a dress has been taken away. Obviously it hasn't. Fashion doesn't have an age limit.
Complain or tweet away, though. It's not going to make a blind bit of difference. Amanda Holden will continue to wear whatever the hell she wants. And we highly respect her for it.
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