AMANDA Holden has been left furious after being targeted by scam weight-loss ads claiming she lost two stone in six weeks – and quit Britain’s Got Talent.
TV judge Amanda is being used as the face of keto diet pills in fake news articles posted on Facebook – which tell fans she had angered ITV bosses by losing too much weight.
The advert claims that Amanda “piled on the pounds” and turned to keto weight loss tablets – but the move “angered ITV bosses” and she’d decided to leave the reality show after 14 years.
In fact, Amanda will return to the show’s panel to film series 15 auditions later this month.
The fake advert goes on to claim that Holly Willoughby, Emma Willis and Alesha Dixon have endorsed the product to lose weight.
“Amanda is horrified that she’d be targeted in that way – the last thing she’d want is for her fans to be scammed into buying a product, or thinking she’d quit BGT,” says a source.
It's not the first time Amanda has been targeted. In 2019 she took to Twitter to hit back at another fake keto advert and warned her followers it was a scam.
She shared the ad and wrote: "I have been made aware that a company is using my name (amongst many others) to sell a Keto Diet.
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"I have not given consent for this and have no partnership with this company.
"This is a scam!! So please be careful and do not sign up to this as they will take your money."
And Amanda’s not the first star to be targeted by a weight-loss scam.
Last year Dawn French furiously hit back at another fake keto advert using her picture to promote weight loss products.
The 63-year-old shared a grab of the fake advert on Twitter and wrote: "B****x" over it. She added: "Keto lies."
Amanda previously opened up about how she stays looking so good – confessing that she only exercises to offset her love of alcohol.
She told Top Sante: "I joke about my love of alcohol but honestly when I say I exercise to drink, it is true! I can balance one off against the other."
The Heart presenter also insisted she doesn't follow "fad" diets and doesn't believe in denying herself anything.
"I'm not one of those people who follows fad diets," Amanda said. "Or someone who removes certain foods from my diet."
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