It’s renowned as the rural clique of the rich and powerful, where David Cameron rubs shoulders with high society and celebrity neighbours.

Now the Chipping Norton Set is welcoming its latest member – Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden.

The heavily pregnant star has bought a 17th Century cottage near the Cotswolds market town of Chipping Norton for £860,000 with record producer husband Chris Hughes, 36.

Also living nearby are TV star Jeremy Clarkson, Blur star-turned-country gentleman Alex James, and Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief executive.

Holden and Hughes’s 400-year-old four-bedroom thatched property is set in half an acre of private land

It will be a home for the couple and their five-year-old daughter, Lexi. Holden, 40, is due to give birth to their second child at any time now.
A source close to the Britain’s Got Talent star – who in 2003 divorced her first husband, TV presenter Les Dennis – said the cottage would be a bolthole allowing the family to divide their time between the countryside and their main home in Richmond, South-West London.


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