Wild At Heart actress, Amanda Holden has revealed that she quickly learned to stand up for herself after finding herself sitting between the formidable Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan on ITV’s new talent show.

Amanda joins Cowell and Morgan on the judging panel of Britian’s Got Talent, due to air on the 9th of June.

“I sit between Simon and Piers Morgan, the former newspaper editor,” Holden told the News of the World’s Sunday magazine. “Simon is always getting ribbed by Piers for draping his arm around my chair. He has a certain magnetic charm but that’s just the way he is – he loves it.

“But both of them try to wind me up. If I say something they disagree with, they go, ‘What do you know, anyway?’ But when I reply, ‘I’ve been in this business for 15 years. I’ve auditioned, performed and acted. What do you know?’ they soon shut up.”