'She was ahead of her time!' Amanda Holden encourages women to be more like Cleopatra

Amanda Holden thinks women nowadays should be a "bit more like" super-bright, "trailblazer" Cleopatra.

The 52-year-old TV presenter turned herself into the Egyptian queen for her new Sky History show 'Sex: A Bonkers History' - which she co-hosts with Dan Jones - and Amanda believes women today can take some advice from Cleopatra's outlook on life.

Asked what she made of Cleopatra, she told Heat magazine: "She was a trailblazer who did what she wanted, was super-bright, spoke loads of different languages, and had lots of relationships.

"I think she was definitely ahead of her time - or was she like every other woman at that time, and we've just been pushed down over the centuries?

"Maybe we all need to be a little bit more Cleopatra."

Amanda believes the Regency era was the "sexiest" in history because people wore so many different layers of clothing that it would take such a long time to get them off in a moment of passion, leading to "frustration".

She said: "Just for the frustration of trying to get all the outfits off, I'm going to say the Regency era [was the sexiest].

"You probably wanted somebody so much, but it would take such an age to actually get to them underneath all the layers of corsets and whale bone.

"If you're still up for it after that, then you know you fancy that person.

"They may not have had contraception, but they had whale bone, which is enough to put anyone off."

Amanda recently admitted it is "crazy" how much attention her risqué outfits get.

The 'Britain’s Got Talent' judge is known for wearing revealing outfits on screen, but has described the “hoo-ha” surrounding them as “absolutely ridiculous”.

She recently told The Sun newspaper: “There had always been an amazing appreciation for the female form previously.

The Victorians, I think, were to blame - in their eyes everything became more sexualised than it was meant to be.

“It’s crazy that when you think of the hoo-ha around some of my outfits now, we’re still there. It’s absolutely ridiculous that it’s still going on in an era when we really think that we are ahead of the game.

“But as I always say when we talk about 'Britain’s Got Talent', I’m 52 - if they want to still talk about my t*** then bring it on!”