Holly Willoughby is NOT in full labour after all, Phillip Schofield tweets

By
Andrea Magrath
Last updated at 9:07 AM on 14th April 2011

Fans have been eagerly waiting for over 48 hours to hear the news that Holly Willoughby has given birth to her little girl – but they may be waiting a while longer.

After exciting This Morning viewers on Tuesday by announcing that his co-host had gone in to labour, Phillip Schofield has now backtracked, telling followers on Twitter that the 30-year-old was not, in fact, in ‘full blown’ labour.

Schofield tweeted: ‘Just spoke to @hollywills who says thanks so much for all your good wishes. Here’s the current situation, obviously if the baby arrived over the last few days it would be quite early, so the team around her are balancing when is the best time for her to be born.

Still waiting: Phillip Schofield has tweeted that his co-host, Holly Willoughby, is not in ‘full blown labour’ after all

‘Holly said that she hadn’t been in full blown labour since Monday! And though she was having contractions she was as comfortable as could be expected.

‘Everyone fine and happy, but the wait goes on for a little bit longer. I’ll let you know if I hear anything else.’

The This Morning presenter’s due date is not actually until May 13, and given that some women experience contractions for days or even weeks before giving birth, Holly could be in for a long haul.

Last night Holly’s agent John Knight said: ‘We’re still waiting for news, I don’t think her waters have broken yet so it could be a little while, we just don’t know.’

False alarm? The TV presenter had told fans Holly was expecting to give birth ‘maybe tomorrow,’ but has now said it could be a while

Miss Willoughby, who is married to producer Dan Baldwin, was admitted to hospital early on Tuesday morning.

There was some confusion over her condition, with Schofield telling viewers: ‘First thing this morning I got a phone call from Holly saying she thought she might be in labour, and as the morning has progressed – not entirely sure – so as it stands at the moment, Holly may or may not be in labour.

‘But best not here, we thought.’

He later took to Twitter to update, telling followers: ‘Latest news is that @hollywills is in labour and at my last text from hubby Dan, fancied a bit of @ginofantastico ‘s pizza he made today.’

Schofield has continued updating his 675,000 followers on his co-host’s progress, or lack thereof, with regular ‘still no news’ tweets.

Minute-by-minute: Fans have been kept informed on Holly’s progress

Holly was replaced on This Morning that morning by stand-in Jenni Falconer, who is also pregnant.

Falconer joked on Tuesday that it would have been good television if Holly had gone  into labour live on the air, to which Schofield replied: ‘Although I do think that I am fully qualified to deliver the baby. I’ve done nearly 10 years on this show, and I think that I am fully qualified.

‘I only work with pregnant people now. Pregnant women I should say!’

He then read out a text from his co-host, saying: ‘I’m assuming this is for broadcast, Holly Willoughby, I don’t know. She said: “I’m currently bouncing on a birthing ball eating breakfast. Sadly not an avocado in sight. Miss you.” There you are, that’s the latest news.’

Twitter
updates: Schofield, with stand-in host Jenni Falconer, has been reading
out texts and updating fans on her condition via Twitter

Growing brood: The baby girl, when she does arrive, will be the second child for Holly and her producer husband Dan Baldwin

John Knight told the MailOnline at the time: ‘She’s absolutely fine. She thought she was in labour this morning and the hospital are still doing tests so we are waiting to hear.’

Holly married TV producer Dan Baldwin, who she met on children’s show Ministry Of Mayhem, in West Sussex in August 2007.

She gave birth to her first child, a boy named Harry, in May 2009 and told viewers in January she was expecting a baby girl.

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