She's no stranger to self-preservation, having experimented with Botox in the past in a bid to remain youthful.

So perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise that Amanda Holden went to great lengths to ensure her derriére would always remain in tip top shape (in some form, at least).

Showing a sneaky peek of her bottom in a new photoshoot, The Britain's Got Talent judge has confessed to having had her favourite asset immortalised in a plaster cast
The 39-year-old actress insists she had the rather bizarre modelling done at the behest of husband Chris Hughes before she gave birth to their daughter Lexi in 2006.

Speaking to Heat magazine, she revealed: 'My husband is so obsessed with my bottom he had a plaster cast made of it - it was before I had a baby so I was kind of proud of it then.

'I had this big tall man come and he even had a spatula to get definition! It looks like a piece of art because they’ve sprayed it silver.' more