Britain’s Got Talent judge, Amanda Holden, has given birth to her second daughter by Caesarean section in a London hospital. Hollie Rose was born on Monday weighing 6lb 1oz but the news of the birth was only revealed last night (watch celebrities reaction to the news here).

The news of the birth was delayed by the 40 year old’s family as she battled for life over the last three days. A close friend said: ‘Amanda nearly died. It was a life threatening situation. There was a huge loss of blood. Fortunately, Amanda is now in a stable condition and is expected to make a full recovery.

Amanda is married to record company executive Chris Hughes, 38, the couple’s spokeman released this statement

‘Hollie Rose Hughes was born on January 23, 2012. She is healthy and weighed in at 6lb 1oz but Amanda has been in a critical condition for the past three days. She is now stable and we expect her to make a full recovery very soon.’

‘We thank you for respecting their privacy at this time.’

This new show is being brought to you by the same people as Junior Doctors. The idea of the show is that the father gets a lot more involved with the pregnancy. On the show the father will be taught everything he needs to by professional midwives. He will then join the delivery team for the birth of their first child.

This sounds like a fantastic programme which will be aired later in 2012. If you would like to take part in the show please email pregnant@bbc.co.uk for more information.

The Tesco Baby Event is now on till the 5th February! This is the biggest ever baby event Tesco has launched offering even more promotions so you can make your budget go that bit further.

Some of the great offers include:
● Pampers Baby Dry Carry Pack: was £6.49 each, now £4.30 each

● Pampers Simply Dry Carry Packs was £4.50 each, now £3.00

● Johnson’s Baby Wipes 64-Pack:was £2.44 each, now 95p each

Half Price Buys:

● Tommee Tippee Closer To Nature Electronic Steam Steriliser: was £47.99, now half price £23.99

● Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Microwave Steriliser: was £26.99, now half price £13.49

The Queen of Essex, Stacey Solomon, has been having some strange pregnancy cravings! She tweeted today

‘Enjoying a healthy snack!! White chocolate and strawberry waffle! The joys of being pregnant haha!’

Okay, well I suppose its not too bad compared to eating mud or chilli and jelly sandwich’s!

The 22 year old has a very exciting 2012 to look forward to, her long-term boyfriend, Aaron Burnham (pictured above) proposed to Stacey in New York last year and they will be expecting their first child together in May. The new addition will be Stacey’s second child, she already has a gorgeous three year old son, Zachary, from a previous relationship.

Bollywood Actress, Shilpa Shetty, showed off her baby bump for the first time in public last night. She attended a party which celebrated the Punjabi festival ‘Lohri’. The expectant Mum glowed as she posed for pictures with husband, Raj Kundra.  The couple met after Shilpa appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2007, they married in 2009 and last month announced the exciting news that they were going to be parents.

Dancing on Ice contestant, Jennifer Ellison, posed with a cut out of herself as she showed off her brand new body. The Mum of one, rocketed up to a size 18 after the birth of her daughter. She also suffered from post-natal depression in 2010.

The 28 year old said ‘I didn’t want to be in the gym. I just wanted to be a mum. I didn’t realize how big I was until I look back now… I put on like five stone. ’I was still in maternity stuff a year [after the birth]. It was really, really hard’

Jennifer has now lost an incredible 5 stone and the reason she decided to lose weight was from a comment a casting director made. She went to an audition for a big west-end show and the director simply said that Jennifer was ‘far too fat’. Heartbreaking at the time, but now the former Brookside actress realises he was only speaking the truth.

Today Jay Z (real name Shaun Carter) and wife Beyonce, released a joint statement quashing reports that daughter, Blue Ivy, was delivered by C Section.

“We are happy to announce the arrival of our beautiful daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, born on Saturday, January 7, 2012.

“Her birth was emotional and extremely peaceful, we are in heaven. She was delivered naturally at a healthy 7 lbs and it was the best experience of both of our lives.

“We are thankful to everyone for all your prayers, well wishes, love and support. Beyoncé & Jay-Z.”

The hospital at which Beyonce gave birth were also keen to put rumours to rest:

“Lenox Hill Hospital and its staff were delighted to welcome the Carter family for the birth of their firstborn on Saturday evening, but we are troubled by the misinformation being circulated in some news media reports”

“The suggestion that the couple paid $1.3 million to rent an entire maternity floor is simply not true. The family is housed in an executive suite at the hospital and is being billed the standard rate for those accommodations. Our executive suites are available for any patient, including the food service and amenities provided to the Carter family

But the hospital did admit that the ‘family does have its on security detail on site’.

The Queen of RnB has given birth to a baby girl in New York! Beyonce Knowles and husband Jay Z welcomed their daughter into the world on Saturday 7th January 2012 and have called her ’Blue Ivy Carter’ – not a bad name considering her parents are music royalty. We were expecting something a little more ‘out there’ like Pear York Carter the 3rd!

The 30 year old singer checked into the Lenox Hill Hospital under the name ‘Ingrid Jackson’ and reportedly rented out the entire fourth floor of the hospital for $1.3 Million! To stop images leaking to the public, employees had to give in their mobile phones and security cameras were taped up.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow tweeted “Welcome to the world Blue! We love you already.”

Singer Rihanna also took to twitter to congratulate the couple “Welcome to the world princess Carter! Love Aunty Rih.”

Image: Richard Corkery(New york daily news)

Reality TV Star Chantelle Houghton is 3 and a half months pregnant and has said ‘I don’t care how fat I get. I’ll get as fat as a house as long as everything’s OK’

The winner of celeb big brother 2006, revealed earlier in the year that she would have problems conceiving due to very low fertility, so you can imagine how over the moon herself and husband-to-be Alex Reid were when she tested positive on a pregnancy test. Speaking to new magazine this week, Chantelle, 28, said that being pregnant has helped her get over her body issues.

Unlike many celebrities Ms Houghton revealed that she’s not worrying about losing the weight afterwards. ‘I’ll just do it gradually. I’m in no rush to snap back into shape. I’m not putting any pressure on myself. And Alex will help me.’

The mum-to-be said her pregnancy was a miracle as she only had a one per cent chance of conceiving naturally.  Big congratulations to Chantelle & Alex!

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