Her husband is Chris Hughes, a man who is not a pop star, not a reality TV villain, but a record producer with a very famous ex-girlfriend. Yes, that Chris, the one from The X Factor who dated a certain Little Mix singer. But here’s the kicker: Chris was born in 1992. That makes him a millennial, a man who probably still uses memes to communicate and might own a pair of skinny jeans he refuses to throw away.
Amanda, meanwhile, was born in 1971. Do the math, and you’ll find a 21-year age gap. That’s not a gap; that’s a generational chasm where one half remembers dial-up internet and the other half thinks “T9” is a robot from Star Wars.
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Let’s be clear: Amanda is 53, and Chris is 32. When she was buying her first CD player in the early 90s, he was still learning to walk and probably chewing on a teething ring shaped like a cassette tape. The internet loves to joke that Amanda is a cougar, but honestly, she’s more like a lioness who accidentally adopted a very handsome cub. She’s the one who can legally rent a car, buy a house, and still remember what a payphone looks like—while Chris probably thinks a “floppy disk” is a save icon.
But here’s the real shocker: this isn’t her first rodeo with a younger man. Her first husband, Les Dennis, was 16 years older than her. She went from dating a man old enough to be her dad to marrying a man young enough to be her… well, let’s not go there. She’s like a human pendulum swinging through the decades.
