Amanda Holden is on a mission to find Alan Carr a "nice Italian boyfriend" following his divorce from husband Paul Drayton.
The pair announced their separation in January last year. They had been married for three years after 13 as a couple and it was reported the break-up was a decision taken "jointly and amicably".
Alan, 46, has been in the BBC One spotlight recently as part of his new TV show with Amanda, Amanda & Alan's Italian Job, a Friday-night pitting the celebrity friends against each other in a DIY competition.
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The BBC One show, which was filmed last year, sees Amanda and Alan purchase two dilapidated apartments for one euro each in picture-perfect Salemi in Italy before spending the summer renovating them. Then, at the end of the summer, the property goes on sale and all the profits are donated to charity.
As part of their time in Italy, Amanda is said to be trying to get Alan back on the market. "Amanda would keep trying to get me a nice Italian boyfriend," he said to in an interview with The Express.
During the latest episode of their series on Friday night (January 27), Amanda brought up the possibility of Alan finding love again as the Britain's Got Talent star asked her pal: "When do you feel like you might be ready to open up your heart again?" to which Alan: "Oh I don't know."
He then heartbreakingly admitted: "I've got to go home at some point. I think I'm just a little bit terrified of going home, going back to an empty house that used to be full of dogs, I had a farm, I had a husband so I'm kind of putting that off." But Amanda told him that she was desperate for him to be in another relationship, saying: "I do think you need to find love again because you're gorgeous.
"You deserve the best so I feel like you need to find someone who's going to look after you, and run a bath and make you a cup of tea and just hold you."
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