{"id":380101,"date":"2011-04-13T22:44:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T22:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/13\/holly-willoughby-in-labour-with-675k-twitter-fans-watching\/"},"modified":"2011-04-13T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T22:44:12","slug":"holly-willoughby-in-labour-with-675k-twitter-fans-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/13\/holly-willoughby-in-labour-with-675k-twitter-fans-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Willoughby in labour with 675k Twitter fans watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"132.78640776699\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Tamara+Cohen\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tamara Cohen<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 11:44 PM on 13th April 2011<\/p>\n<p>Childbirth is a traditionally private experience. But these days we can all share the thrill.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the advances of modern technology and her Tweeting celebrity friends, hundreds of thousands of us have a ringside seat for Holly Willoughby\u2019s labour.<\/p>\n<p>Her pain and anticipation are not just shared with her husband and the midwife, but have become the most talked-about story in showbusiness.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/24f009df35_468x698.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"698\" alt=\"Breaking news: Heavily pregnant Holly Willoughby with co-presenter Phillip Schofield last month\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Breaking news: Heavily pregnant Holly Willoughby with co-presenter Phillip Schofield last month<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since he announced she had gone into labour on Tuesday morning, Miss Willoughby\u2019s This Morning co-presenter Phillip Schofield has kept fans fully up to speed with the birth on his Twitter page. <\/p>\n<p>Miss Willoughby was admitted to hospital 48 hours ago, almost a month before her little girl is due. <\/p>\n<p> Last night her agent said she was not in full labour, although she was experiencing contractions. <\/p>\n<p>John Knight said: \u2018We\u2019re still waiting for news, I don\u2019t think her waters have broken yet so it could be a little while, we just don\u2019t know.\u2019<\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/88d70197187_468x616.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"616\" alt=\"Too much detail? With the arrival of Twitter, fans are kept up to date with details of Holly's labour\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Too much detail? With the arrival of Twitter, fans are kept up to date with details of Holly&#8217;s labour<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Schofield, who has 675,000 fans following his tweets, has made sure barely a contraction goes unreported.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Miss Willoughby\u2019s best friend, presenter Fearne Cotton \u2013 who has more than 1.5million Twitter followers \u2013 also confirmed the ongoing wait for news.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Schofield told wellwishers just after 7am that Miss Willoughby was \u2018still in labour\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>At 12.50 he added: \u2018For everyone asking. News from @hollywills is that there\u2019s no news really. Everyone fine, but very tired, still no new baby though\u2019.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"13\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/e8be01f3143_468x286.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"286\" alt=\"Still no baby: Phillip Schofield read out a text from Holly that she had yet to give birth, before announcing it on Twitter. Next to him, Jenni Falconer, who stood in at the last minute, and who tweeted last month that she was three months pregnant\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Still no baby: Phillip Schofield read out a text from Holly that she had yet to give birth, before announcing it on Twitter. Next to him, Jenni Falconer, who stood in at the last minute, and who tweeted last month that she was three months pregnant<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Miss Cotton went to visit the expectant mother in hospital and posted a picture of herself on Twitter pretending to puff on a gas and air machine, with the caption: \u2018Just at the hospital checking in on Holly who is still in labour. Don\u2019t worry I\u2019m fine.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It is thought Miss Willoughby, 30, has given her blessing to the coverage as she in fact broke the news that she was pregnant with her second child on Twitter back in November. <\/p>\n<p>She and her producer husband Dan Baldwin, 33, already have a son Harry who will be two next month. <\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/23b1d302168_468x286.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"286\" alt=\"Letting everyone know: Schofield's Twitter announcement\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Letting everyone know: Schofield&#8217;s Twitter announcement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But the volume of interest in her forthcoming child \u2013 which she revealed in January would be a girl \u2013 has been bewildering.<\/p>\n<p>Schofield told the world on Tuesday via Twitter: \u2018Latest news is that @hollywills is in labour.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Holly was replaced on This Morning that morning by stand-in Jenni Falconer, but talk of the impending childbirth was constant. <\/p>\n<p>Schofield told viewers: \u2018First thing this morning I got a phone call from Holly saying she thought she might be in labour, and as the morning has progressed &#8211; not entirely sure &#8211; so as it stands at the moment, Holly may or may not be in labour. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But best not here, we thought.\u2019<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/6b902792107_468x656.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Announcing the news: Holly and husband Dan, who texted Schofield to confirm that she was in labour with their second child\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Announcing the news: Holly and husband Dan, who texted Schofield to confirm that she was in labour with their second child<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/24f009df35_468x698.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1376659\/Holly-Willoughby-labour-675k-Twitter-fans-watching.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Holly Willoughby in labour with 675k Twitter fans watching\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Holly Willoughby in labour with 675k Twitter fans watching<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Tamara Cohen Last updated at 11:44 PM on 13th April 2011 Childbirth is a traditionally private experience. 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